Darryl K. Taft

The Node.js Foundation, a consortium of organizations fostering the development of the Node.js platform, today announced the results of its first Node.js User Survey Report. Node.js is an event-driven server-side JavaScript development environment based on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine. Mikeal Rogers, community manager for the Node.js Foundation, said there are more than 3.5 million Node.js […]

IBM has launched a new health initiative, the IBM Health Corps, patterned after the company’s Corporate Service Corps, which is often called the private sector version of the Peace Corps. IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginny Rometty announced the new program today at the 13th Annual World Health Care Congress, along with a new IBM […]

LinkedIn has open-sourced its Hadoop and Spark performance tuning tool, known as Dr. Elephant, to help Hadoop and Spark users add easy, self-service tuning to their production environments. In a blog post about the tool, Akshay Rai, a software engineer at LinkedIn, described Dr. Elephant as a simple tool for the users of Hadoop and […]

Eight Important Facts About Hybrid Cloud Migration A new study shows that businesses are moving toward adoption of the cloud, but opting for a hybrid approach to leave some infrastructure on premises. Infrastructure Migration IT infrastructures have evolved from traditional on-premises-only to a hybrid strategy that links internal and external IT services driven by the […]

Microsoft and HackerRank, a site that provides programming solutions for developers, have teamed up to launch a new feature for Microsoft’s Bing search engine that enables programmers to find solutions to coding queries directly within the search engine. When coding, programmers often run into issues they don’t understand or on which need more clarity. Sometimes […]

On the heels of announcing its Adobe I/O developer portal, Adobe has announced a series of new Web components currently in beta for the Adobe Creative Cloud. Powered by the Creative SDK—the engine behind Adobe’s mobile apps—these new Web components demonstrate Adobe’s support for cross-platform and cross-app workflows. Web developers can use these Web APIs […]

Capping off a busy week filled with partnerships and deals involving its cloud, mobile and systems technology, IBM today announced that 1-800-Flowers.com has selected IBM’s Commerce on Cloud solution to provide the retailer’s customers with a seamless experience across all of its brands. The move to the IBM Cloud will make it easy for customers […]

In honor of April being Parkinson’s Awareness Month, IBM and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced they have entered into a research collaboration to develop an Internet of things (IoT) remote monitoring solution that could transform the care of individuals that suffer from the debilitating Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease is a chronic and progressive movement disorder that […]

As IBM continues on its journey to help its clients move toward digital transformation, the company is relying on partnerships with its allies as well as on its core technology to give companies a leg up in making the transition. For instance, IBM and Box on April 7 announced plans to collaborate on an IBM […]

Building on the ongoing IBM MobileFirst for iOS partnership between IBM and Apple, Big Blue today introduced a new version of its Expert Seller app that is built on the Box Platform. Expert Seller is an IBM MobileFirst for iOS application aimed at improving productivity of salespeople by providing them with the content they need […]