Darryl K. Taft

Engine Yard claims that with its $28 million in revenue for 2011 it is the leading open platform as a service (PaaS), and the company challenges any other player to step forward and prove them wrong. Engine Yard officials said the company doubled its year-over-year revenue in 2011 and increased its customer base by 50 […]

With more and more organizations looking at Apache Hadoop to wrangle big data, the need for tools to make Hadoop more palatable for business users has arisen and Birst has burst on the scene to help. Birst, a business analytics software provider, has announced support for Apache Hadoop, combining the massive scale of Hadoop datasets […]

IBM, Samsung Electronics and GLOBALFOUNDRIES will preview the future of silicon technology at the 2012 Common Platform Technology Forum to be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center March 14. The companies are the founders of the Common Platform technology collaboration, which is the world’s largest chip-making consortium, IBM officials said. At the upcoming forum, […]

SUSE is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a yearlong campaign highlighting the company’s history and future. The longtime provider of enterprise Linux solutions will showcase major historical milestones and discuss plans for the future through a series of worldwide events that will include SUSECon 2012, the premier event for SUSE customers, partners and enthusiasts. The […]

Adobe has delivered a key new beta release of its Muse software that enables graphic designers to create and publish professional-looking HTML Websites without writing code. Adobe released beta 6 of Muse on Feb. 8. Muse beta 6 features a new installer/update mechanism. Due to changes to the installer, older versions of Muse beta releases […]

Sencha, a maker of application frameworks, tools and cloud services for developers, has launched a new fast-track program for Adobe Flex developers looking to develop HTML5 applications. The new program provides Flex developers a variety of ways to become familiar with the Sencha suite of professional tools, which include Sencha Designer, an application builder for […]

TechNet, a bipartisan policy and political network of technology CEOs, released a new study showing that there are now about 466,000 jobs in the so-called €œApp Economy€ in the United States, up from zero in 2007. The €œApp Economy€ is the market for applications and technology products and services related to the delivery of applications […]

NGINX, pronounced €œEngine-X,€ has announced commercial support options for companies using its open-source Web server in production. This is the first commercial offering of Nginx Inc., which was founded in July 2011 and launched in October. The company is offering three technical-support packages€”Essential, Advanced and Premium. The support packages cover installation, configuration, performance improvement, software […]

Xamarin, a maker of development software for building cross-platform mobile apps for phones and tablets, has announced MonoTouch 5.2, a new version of its software for developing iPhone and iPad apps. MonoTouch 5.2 delivers new capabilities to improve application performance, streamline the development process and reduce the time it takes to build iPhone and iPad […]

IT Pros Don’t Want to Learn Multiple New Programming Languages If a shift away from traditional RDBMSes based on SQL programming is to occur, developers and DBAs have to learn other design and programming techniques to deal with the database. Right now, most NoSQL vendors are building their solution around a proprietary API that creates […]