Darryl K. Taft

What are the most pressing issues facing enterprise IT organizations? Cost management and virtualization, according to a recent survey of more than 160 IBM customers. The complete results of the survey, conducted by SHARE, will be released at SHARE’s biannual conference, SHARE in Boston, Aug. 1-5. SHARE is an independent, volunteer-run association providing IBM customers […]

Lockheed Martin, the nation’s largest defense contractor, has launched a new open-source project for enterprise social networking called Eureka Streams. The Eureka Streams technology, which looks and behaves much like existing commercial social networking software, is aimed at helping what Lockheed Martin refers to as knowledge workers make informed decisions by finding relevant colleagues and […]

CompTIA, or the Computing Technology Industry Association, a key trade association for the IT industry, has launched an effort to improve “delivery and adoption of cloud computing.” CompTIA announced July 26 that participants in a “recent CompTIA Cloud/SaaS Community summit … agreed to work collaboratively on educational resources, standard definitions, business models and skilling requirements […]

For the second year in a row, Evans Data has ranked Google and IBM as the top cloud computing environments for developers. Based on the results of a recent Evans Data survey of more than 400 software developers, Google stood out as the favorite public cloud platform and IBM as the preferred private cloud provider-just […]

Compuware is looking to help ease the application development and maintenance burden mainframe shops face by delivering a new suite of intuitive development tools. The company’s Compuware Workbench, announced July 20, is an Eclipse-based “development environment for managing mainframe application development.” The workbench features a GUI and tools such as a source code editor, data […]

In a move to help make it easier for developers to create mobile applications for any device, the Symbian Foundation and Nitobi have joined forces. Symbian and Nitobi, “creators of the ground-breaking PhoneGap mobile application development framework, [July 21] announced an open-source collaboration,” the joint statement said. The two organizations are “integrating Symbian’s Web application […]

Leading up to the release of the new IBM mainframe, the zEnterprise system, eWEEK recently connected with Ambuj Goyal, general manager of the IBM Systems and Technology Group’s Development and Manufacturing organization. Goyal offered his perspective on why the company still invests almost $6 billion annually in research and development and how it translates to […]

IBM claims its new zEnterprise mainframe is the highest performing, most efficient mainframe ever and the z196 core server has something to do with that. In a July 22 press release describing its new system offering, IBM said the core server in the zEnterprise System – called zEnerprise 196 (z196) – contains 96 microprocessors running […]

Speedy IBM zEnterprise Mainframe Built to Take Charge in Data Centers by Darryl K. Taft Building the IBM zEnterprise IBM employees James Geuke, (top) Poughkeepsie, and Larry Terpak (standing), Johnson City, N.Y., install covers on the new IBM zEnterprise System mainframe. The zEnterprise System, the result of three years and $1.5 billion in IBM research […]

IBM is announcing a new mainframe system — known as the zEnterprise — that sets up the big iron as the central management point of enterprise data centers, with other systems directly feeding off the mainframe’s attributes. IBM continues to innovate in the mainframe space, even though it is pretty much the only game in […]

Oracle has released a new version of its service bus technology, Oracle Service Bus 11g, a key component of Oracle SOA Suite 11g. Oracle Service Bus 11g is part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family. It is designed to enable developers to transform “complex and brittle application architectures into flexible application networks that are […]

Oracle has delivered a new version of its distributed in-memory data grid product, Oracle Coherence 3.6, Announced in mid-July 2010, Oracle Coherence 3.6 is a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. And Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Coherence are critical components of application grid and private cloud deployments. Coherence also integrates with Oracle’s recently announced […]