Darryl K. Taft

Although IBM’s third-quarter 2016 revenue was basically flat when compared with the same period a year ago, Big Blue saw significant improvement in its “strategic imperatives” plays. In addition, IBM exceeded analyst estimates for both its earnings per share (EPS) and revenues. Wall Street analysts projected EPS of $3.23 and IBM delivered $3.29. Likewise, analysts […]

Microsoft has developed a new Cloud Services Due Diligence Checklist to better enable customers to make better cloud procurement decisions, as more and more organizations are looking to migrate workloads to the cloud. Despite the benefits of cloud computing being clear, many organizations struggle with the process of contracting with and managing cloud service providers—particularly […]

Building on its internal research and development as well as strategic acquisitions over the last several years, IBM introduced a new IBM Cloud Object Storage series of services. The new offerings provide storage-as-a-service solutions for hybrid clouds, IBM said. The new IBM Cloud Object Storage service uses core technology attained in IBM’s acquisition of Cleversafe. […]

The number of software developers actively developing in the cloud has reached more than 5.4 million as of this year, according to a recent study by Evans Data Corp. Evans Data, which provides market intelligence on a variety of developer-related issues including overall population and popular tools and methodologies, also found that the number of […]

Although IT leaders claim security is critical to their business, many are also willing to sacrifice it to turn out products faster, according to a recent study from CA Technologies. The CA study, entitled “The Security Imperative: Driving Business Growth in the App Economy,” showed that 68 percent of IT leaders surveyed they “sometimes compromise […]

Stack Overflow, a popular online community for developers, has announced Developer Story, a new feature that overhauls the traditional resume to better highlight developer strengths. Developer Story enables developers to highlight the accomplishments most important to them. It is targeted at helping both programmers and employers by giving hiring managers a different view of potential […]

Microsoft’s Cortana Intelligence Aimed at Transforming Businesses Here’s a look at how companies are using Microsoft technology, including Cortana Intelligence, to power their big data, advanced analytics and AI environments. Portugal Telecom Portugal Telecom’s MEO subsidiary is the nation’s largest telecom operator, offering 200-plus channels, a vast catalog of video-on-demand content and a state-of-the-art user […]

What Enterprises Can Learn From Gaming Industry About Mobile Apps The mobile gaming industry can teach a lot to enterprises when it comes to engaging users. Here are some tips to help companies make their mobile apps more engaging. Understand Revenue Drivers First Games can be wildly successful or infamously tricky to monetize. To ensure […]

The Weather Company, an IBM business, announced the availability of a new Cold and Flu Tracker that uses cognitive computing technology to provide localized cold and flu activity to consumers. The new Cold and Flu Tracker is sponsored GSK Consumer Healthcare’s (GSK) Theraflu brand and is available on Weather.com, Theraflu.com and The Weather Channel app. […]

IBM has launched a new Watson Application Developer Certification program to recognize developers who are qualified to build applications on the Watson cognitive computing platform. Not only will the certification program enable developers to test and validate their expertise in developing artificial intelligence (AI)-based cognitive computing applications, but it also will help organizations looking to […]

6 Considerations for a Successful Enterprise IoT Strategy From having adequate manpower to planning for unpredictability in a mass-deployment environment, organizations need to cover their bases to use IoT applications successfully. IoT Solutions Should Make Financial Sense The current generation of IoT use cases revolves around optimization of existing processes, such as collecting smart meter […]

IBM and AT&T have announced an expansion of their longstanding relationship that takes advantage of each company’s strengths including AT&T’s FlexWare networking solution as well as IBM’s cloud infrastructure and sales and marketing teams. The expanded partnership will help customers with hybrid cloud and IT-as-a-service deployments, as IBM will now sell the FlexWare solution, Big […]