Darryl K. Taft

LAS VEGAS€”A recent IBM study showed that the number of enterprises turning to cloud computing is expected to double by 2015. At its IBM Pulse 2012 conference here, IBM released the findings of its study, which indicated that businesses that embrace the transformative power of the cloud will have a significant advantage in the race […]

LAS VEGAS€”IBM announced that it is working with the Louvre Museum to deliver an intelligent management system based on Big Blue’s Maximo technology. The new systems at the Louvre Museum in Paris will preserve and protect the landmark institution’s artwork and facilities, which cover more than 650,000 square feet, making it one of the largest […]

With health care as the first major vertical market IBM has taken its Watson question-answering technology to, Big Blue has now entered into an agreement with Citigroup to explore the use of Watson in financial services, particularly the banking industry. On March 5, Citigroup announced it had entered into an agreement with IBM to explore […]

LAS VEGAS €” IBM and Toshiba announced that Toshiba€™s new line of enterprise laptop PCs will be integrated with IBM software, providing energy management and advanced endpoint security protection. Toshiba plans to sell the new lines of enterprise PCs and its integrated solution globally in mid-2012, the company said at the IBM Pulse 2012 conference […]

LAS VEGAS €” Syclo, a provider of enterprise mobile software, has announced that the Syclo SMART Mobile Suite for Maximo is now available for Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, Android smartphones and Android tablets. Syclo made its announcement at the IBM Pulse 2012 conference here March 5. Syclo has deployed mobile for more than 400 IBM […]

The MIT App Inventor service is now available to the public as part of an open beta launched by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In a March 4 blog post, Hal Abelson, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, said the App Inventor is open to use by anybody in the public who […]

LAS VEGAS €” IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the U.S. Air Force has selected IBM smarter buildings software to help its civil engineers maximize energy efficiency and automate the management of its physical infrastructure portfolio At the IBM Pulse 2012 conference here, Big Blue announced that the USAF will be using IBM TRIRIGA software […]

Determining The Peoples Oscars Like previous social sentiment analyses on the Super Bowl, World Series, film and retail, IBM and USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab conducted an analysis of the Twitterverse to determine the “The People’s Oscars.” The Academy Award project was done in partnership with the Los Angeles Times and demonstrated how applying analytics to […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that according to a new Gartner report, Big Blue took the No. 1 position as the leading server vendor in the fourth quarter of 2011, with 33.7 percent revenue market share. For the full year of 2011, IBM had 30.5 percent revenue share, 1.5 percent ahead of its nearest rival, HP, […]

ActiveState announced the availability of Stackato 1.0, an application platform for creating a private platform as a service (PaaS) using any language on any stack on any cloud, company officials said. From the desktop to the data center, Stackato makes it easy to develop, deploy, migrate, scale, manage and monitor applications on any cloud, the […]