Darryl K. Taft

Microprocessor At the heart of IBM’s Power Systems is the Power7 microprocessor, which features a multicore 45-nanometer design in four-, six- and eight-core options. Each Power7 processor can run up to 32 simultaneous tasks. Product Line The Power Systems family of products ranges from blade servers to entry, midrange and high-end systems like the Power […]

FeedHenry, a maker of enterprise mobility solutions for the development, deployment and management of mobile apps, recently launched its Mobile Application Platform on the VMware Cloud Foundry platform as a service (PaaS). According to the company, FeedHenry’s mobile application platform is the only cloud-based mobile application solution that allows developers to build HTML5, JavaScript and […]

The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, recently added four new members: Fluendo, Lineo Solutions, Mocana and Nvidia. The new members represent increased acceleration of Linux in areas such as mobile and embedded development, security and multimedia, the foundation said. Companies see the benefits of Linux and the collaborative development […]

Cloudera has announced that it will host HBaseCon 2012, a new event for Apache HBase users. Officials at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of Hadoop software and services said it will host HBaseCon 2012 in San Francisco May 22. HBaseCon will be the first industry conference for Apache HBase users, contributors, administrators and application developers. […]

IBM announced that ETrade Korea has selected IBM Power Systems to replace a series of Oracle/Sun servers in its online trading system. IBM announced on March 9 that ETrade Korea is deploying a new online trading system based on IBM Power Systems that can settle up to 970,000 financial transactions per hour in real-time€”16 percent […]

Atlassian, a provider of collaboration software for product teams, recently announced its acquisition of HipChat, a hosted private chat service for companies and teams. San Francisco-based HipChat has more than 1,200 customers, including Groupon, HubSpot and WIRED. Atlassian will incorporate HipChat into its portfolio of software that helps teams at more than 18,000 companies work […]

Analytics software provider SAS has increased access to big data sources with Hadoop support in its updated SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server. By employing the popular open-source data architecture, customers using analytics from SAS can increase the value of big data assets. Hadoop joins more than three dozen supported data sources in SAS Enterprise Data […]

Market research firm IDC has released a new forecast that shows the big data market is expected to grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $16.9 billion in 2015. Big data is a new frontier in IT where data sets can grow so large that they become awkward to work with using traditional database management […]

LAS VEGAS€”IBM (NYSE: IBM) has introduced new software that addresses what Big Blue has identified as the next shift in enterprise cloud adoption. At its Pulse 2012 conference here, IBM unveiled new SmartCloud solutions as well as software to extend its secure cloud management capabilities to mobile devices and physical assets. The new technology represents […]

Adobe Systems has released Adobe Shadow, a new tool for Web professionals that simplifies optimizing Web experiences across mobile devices. Adobe delivered Adobe Shadow Labs Release 1 at the SXSW 2012 festival in Austin, Texas, on March 7. Adobe Shadow enables Web developers and designers to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining preview and […]