Darryl K. Taft

IBM announced total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2015 of $22.1 billion, down 9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2014; and net income of $4.5 billion, compared with $5.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2014, down 19 percent. However, the company made progress on its strategic imperatives, which IBM is counting on […]

IBM recently announced Dynamic Pricing, a new cloud-based offering for online retailers. Highlighted this week at the National Retail Federation’s Retail’s BIG Show, IBM Dynamic Pricing automatically recommends an online retailer’s best response to changes in performance data and market conditions as well as the latest competitor pricing information. The solution enables retailers to intelligently […]

Unisys today announced it will provide enterprises with its Unisys Stealth micro-segmentation security solution on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, available for customers to acquire and deploy from the AWS Marketplace. The solution will provide advanced security to AWS customers, while providing Unisys clients with the ease of access and scale of the AWS […]

How would you like to have a conversation with your computer to plan your vacation or to do your taxes, or literally hold a discussion with your car about the best way to get home through traffic? Well, if a new project from IBM and the University of Michigan goes as planned, that may not […]

IBM and CSC today announced an expanded partnership to help enterprises accelerate their transition to the cloud by integrating the companies’ technologies that enable hybrid cloud environments. The expanded partnership is part of IBM’s strategy to tap systems integrators to help expand the reach of the IBM Cloud platform. The initiative includes the modernization and […]

How Strategic CRM Apps Will Drive Customer Engagement Strategic CRM apps will boost customer engagement with predictive and adaptive analytics that provide insights to address changing needs. Marketing Takes the “Creepy” Out of Customer Experience Marketing and sales tools are giving businesses unprecedented power to stay connected to their customers today. But they also need […]

IBM continues to make strides in the hybrid cloud arena, helping clients integrate existing business processes and drive digital transformation, and it appears the investment is paying off. This week, two independent reports from Forrester Research and Synergy Research named IBM a leader in hybrid cloud management solutions. These new reports further underscore the momentum […]

A Day in the Life of a Datum Each day we create and consume massive amounts of data. This slide show illustrates the journey one datum goes through from inception to reality. Data Creation An engineer wakes up in the middle of the night with an idea and starts a new design concept using a […]

IBM today announced that it has acquired IRIS Analytics, a privately held company specializing in real-time analytics to help combat payment fraud. Based in Koblenz, Germany, IRIS offers a real-time fraud analytics engine that uses machine learning to generate rapid anti-fraud models. It also simultaneously supports the creation and modification of ad-hoc models proven successful […]

With its technology well-represented in the banking industry, IBM today announced that the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Retail Payments Office has selected IBM to modernize its automated clearing house (ACH) processing platform. When conducting ACH operations, the Federal Reserve serves as the central operator ensuring that electronic payments such as direct deposits and bill […]

Microsoft announced it has open-sourced its ChakraCore JavaScript engine that powers its Edge Web browser. The company initially laid out its plans to open-source the technology last month in a talk at JSConf US. Microsoft released the code under the MIT License at the ChakraCore GitHub repository. In a blog post on the project, Guarav […]

While software development and security do not always go hand in hand, mobile developers tend to follow security protocols as a necessity, a recent study finds. Security has long been a top issue for mobile development, but an Evans Data survey of mobile developers worldwide shows that 56.7 percent are following security protocols mandated by […]