Darryl K. Taft

Jelastic, a provider of Java platform as a service (PaaS) solutions, has announced that its namesake PaaS offering will emerge from beta and become commercially available in March. Next month, Jelastic will become commercially available in North America from ServInt, and in Europe from dogado Internet GmbH€”in collaboration with Host Europe. This move will make […]

IBM today announced that it has completed its acquisition of DemandTec, a provider of cloud-based collaborative analytics solutions for retailers and consumer products companies. IBM officials said the acquisition further extends IBM€™s Smarter Commerce initiative by adding cloud-based software to help companies drive profitability through measurable pricing, promotion and assortment planning. In December, IBM announced […]

As developers, analysts and enterprise adopters alike have called for more resources to help make Hadoop more enterprise-friendly, Hortonworks announces a new Hadoop training program for developers and administrators. Hortonworks, a company promoting the development and support of Apache Hadoop, has announced a new initiative providing Hadoop training and certification known as Hortonworks University. The […]

Users of Adobe€™s Revel photo-sharing solution now have access to Android, as Adobe has announced the availability of its new Revel Importer in the Android Marketplace. The Adobe Revel app is a photography solution that gives users access to their entire photo library from their iPads, iPhones, Macs and now Android phones. However, although Revel […]

Opera Software announced that it has acquired two mobile advertising networks, Mobile Theory and 4th Screen Advertising, to expand its offerings to advertisers and mobile publishers that engage consumers via the mobile Web and applications, across all mobile platforms. In its Feb. 16 announcement, Opera said these acquisitions will enable the company to more effectively […]

NEW YORK €” IBM announced plans to introduce a new family of computing systems that feature €œintegrated expertise€ inside the machine. At the IBM Smarter Computing Executive Forum here Feb. 15, Rod Adkins, senior vice president of IBM€™s Systems and Technology Group (STG), said IBM will introduce a new era of computing€”a new category of […]

Electric Cloud, a provider of develop and test cloud solutions, has announced it is offering developers one year of free access to a developer tool that can speed up application builds by as much as 70 percent. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Electric Cloud said it is offering a one-year subscription of its ElectricAccelerator Developer Edition (EADE) at […]

Microsoft announced a reduction in pricing for its SQL Azure cloud database service. In a Feb. 14 post on the Windows Azure team blog, Steven Martin, general manager of Windows Azure business planning, said that to meet evolving customer needs €œacross both ends of the database size spectrum,€ Microsoft has lowered the price of SQL […]

Ever on the cutting edge among government agencies, NASA announced it has shut down its last mainframe to complete its move to smaller, distributed systems running Linux and other systems. In a Feb. 11 blog post, NASA CIO Linda Cureton wrote that NASA€™s Marshall Space Flight Center powered down an IBM Z9 mainframe the agency […]

For the record: Java is not dead, nor is it dying. It is, however, mature, and perhaps a little grumpy and set in its ways. Yet it seems one of the best ways to draw attention to a post or commentary on Java and programming is to use the Words €œJava€ and some variation of […]