Darryl K. Taft

The Eclipse Foundation is on a roll this week, opening its EclipseCon 2016 event, officially releasing its new Che integrated development environment (IDE) and welcoming Microsoft as a member of the organization. Today at EclipseCon in Reston, Va., Microsoft announced its membership in the Eclipse Foundation, an organization born to foster the development and proliferation […]

Integration middleware provider WSO2 has announced a new Microservices Framework for Java (MS4J) to help developers build microservices in Java that support container-based deployments. The emergence of cloud, mobile and the Internet of things (IoT) applications has accelerated the adoption of microservices, and WS02 is getting in on the action by delivering its own microservices […]

Syncsort, a provider of big data and mainframe software, has upgraded its DMX-h data integration software to enable enterprise organizations to work with mainframe data in Hadoop or Spark in its native format. Syncsort delivered the new capabilities because some of its large enterprise customers—particularly those in financial services, banking, insurance and health care—needed to […]

IBM today released results of a survey that showed that leading enterprise organizations are using hybrid clouds to gain a competitive edge—even using them as a springboard to newer, higher-value initiatives such as the Internet of things (IoT) and cognitive computing. The study showed that two-thirds of organizations implementing hybrid clouds said they are gaining […]

SmartBear Software, a provider of software quality tools for developers, this week announced new API testing and building solutions that enable developers to find bugs faster and to simplify API design. SmartBear’s new Ready! API TestServer is an automated API testing solution aimed at Agile and DevOps teams that are tasked with turning out new […]

IBM’s enterprise mobility partnership with Apple continues to pay dividends, as today Big Blue announced it has teamed up with the American Sleep Apnea Association (ASAA) on a study to determine the connections between sleep habits and general health. The ASAA and IBM introduced a new application known as SleepHealth to help identify these connections. […]

IBM announced an expansion of its Watson Analytics academic program, along with a new student version of Watson Analytics. Last year, IBM rolled out an academic initiative delivering Watson Analytics to more than 400 universities worldwide. With its consumer-friendly interface and natural-language technology, Watson Analytics enables students to tap into the power of cognitive computing […]

With security as one of its strategic imperatives, IBM made a series of moves to bolster its security incident response capabilities, including announcing its intent to acquire Resilient Systems, a provider of a popular incident response platform. Resilient Systems, whose CTO Bruce Schneier is a well-known cryptographer, computer security and privacy specialist, develops and markets […]

IBM celebrated the second anniversary of its Bluemix Platform as a Service by releasing a long list of new features at the company’s IBM InterConnect 2016 conference in Las Vegas last week. The added functionality includes a set of new Watson APIs available on the IBM Watson Developer Cloud on Bluemix. These include three APIs […]

Tasktop, a provider of Software Lifecycle Integration (SLI) solutions for developers, has introduced a new product into its portfolio of Agile development tools, the Tasktop Gateway, which, added to the company’s existing technology, comprises a DevOps Integration Hub. Tasktop co-founder and CEO Mik Kersten created the Eclipse Mylyn open-source task and application lifecycle management (ALM) […]