Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft announced it is partnering with the open-source Jenkins project to advance the Jenkins software automation platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Microsoft will be working with the Jenkins community to move the Jenkins project infrastructure to Azure to improve security and capacity and to offer more services to the project. The technology giant announced […]

IBM continues to deliver on its pledge to infuse its products with cognitive technology, as Big Blue works to turn both itself and its customers into cognitive businesses. At its Amplify 2016 conference in Tampa, Fla., IBM announced new and expanded solutions and features including cognitive technologies that enable companies to deliver personalized customer experiences. […]

Five IT Tools for Managing Bimodal Enterprise IT Bimodal IT can help companies increase their speed to market without sacrificing stability or quality. Here are five tools for bimodal IT environments. PagerDuty With a rising demand for uptime and speed, it’s more important than ever for today’s businesses to deliver reliable service to customers and […]

An IBM official testified on May 16 before the President’s Commission on Enhancing National Cyber Security about the potential for blockchain to become the technology foundation for conducting transactions over the Internet. Jerry Cuomo, IBM’s vice president of blockchain, testified before the commission in New York City, stating that he believes the technology could potentially […]

Tapping into the trend of empowering so-called “citizen developers” with tools to quickly create enterprise applications, Business Process Management (BPM) platform provider Appian has announced its new Quick Apps product that lets users build apps in a few short steps. At its Appian World 2016 conference in Washington, D.C., this week, Appian unveiled the latest […]

Mobility in the Enterprise: Past, Present and Future From the beginning, mobile devices in the workplace have demanded management by IT and will continue to do so far into the IoT future. 1980s: Introduction of Laptops Laptops are introduced, initiating and empowering the modern workforce we live in today. The laptop spurred the mobile revolution […]

IBM has upgraded its Watson Analytics cognitive computing solution with a new user interface and a handful of other new features to make it easier to use. Watson Analytics is a cloud service that takes IBM’s Watson cognitive computing technology and the company’s predictive analytics capabilities and puts them in the hands of business users. […]

Apple subsidiary FileMaker has delivered the latest release of its custom application development platform for citizen developers, FileMaker 15. FileMaker 15 features enhancements in five key areas: mobility, automation/integration, ease of use, security and performance. Targeted at small- to medium-sized businesses and teams within enterprises, the FileMaker platform enables users to build custom apps across […]

IT Security Improving, but Don’t Press Your Luck on Friday the 13th Security professionals should not worry about Friday the 13th. Things will likely be OK, as long as they don’t stray from best practices. Security Breaches in 2015 While 55 percent of respondents said their organizations did not experience a security breach in 2015, […]

Behind IBM’s Quantum Computing Solution Quantum computing performs new operations on data or operations outside standard models of computation. We look at IBM’s quantum computing technology. IBM 5-Qubit Processor IBM scientists have achieved a further advance by combining 5 qubits in the lattice architecture, which demonstrates a key operation known as a parity measurement—the basis […]