Darryl K. Taft

TIBCO Software, a provider of integration, analytics and event processing, announced that it has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation, an independent nonprofit organization that drives the development, promotion and adoption of Cloud Foundry as an industry standard platform for cloud applications. As a foundation member, TIBCO will be in a position to contribute to the […]

In what some consider a long-awaited move, Microsoft today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire mobile app dev toolmaker Xamarin. Xamarin provides a popular platform that enables developers to build mobile applications using C# and deliver native mobile app experiences on iOS, Android and Windows devices. Financial terms of the deal were not […]

LAS VEGAS—As it gears up for what it calls the cognitive era of computing, IBM announced new and expanded cognitive APIs for developers that enhance Watson’s emotional and visual senses. The three new APIs further extend the capabilities of the Watson cognitive computing system and enable developers to add new emotional functionality to their cognitive […]

Don’t call it a comeback; they’ve been here for years! Yes, literally almost 150 years, yet very few people today outside of government and certain other sectors can say exactly what Unisys does. Well, they’re working on that. Last year, the company hired turnaround specialist Peter Altabef as CEO to help restructure the once mighty […]

LAS VEGAS—In a move to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption, IBM and VMware today announced a strategic partnership designed to help enterprises take better advantage of the cloud’s speed and economics. The new agreement, announced at the IBM InterConnect 2016 conference here, will enable enterprise customers to easily extend their existing workloads, as they are, from […]

LAS VEGAS—IBM today announced the next phase of its roadmap to bring the Swift programming language to the cloud with a preview of a Swift runtime and a Swift Package Catalog to help enable developers to create apps for the enterprise. IBM boasts of being the first cloud provider to enable the development of applications […]

IBM this week announced it was open-sourcing Quarks, a very interesting technology that enables organizations to analyze Internet of things (IoT) data locally, on gateways or at edge devices. According to IBM, it is far more costly and time consuming to extract meaning from IoT data by transmitting over a network and then analyzing it […]

A Close Look at IBM’s z13s Mainframe for Secure Hybrid Clouds IBM’s z13s has advanced cryptography features built into the hardware that allow it to encrypt and decrypt data twice as fast as previous generations. The z13s Optimized for hybrid cloud workloads, the new IBM z13s brings the security of data encryption to midsize organizations […]

IBM’s planned acquisition of Truven Health Analytics for $2.6 billion is aimed at making the Watson health unit one of the world’s largest and most diverse repositories of health-related data. Truven Health Analytics is a provider of cloud-based healthcare data, analytics and insights. It will bring more than 8,500 clients, including U.S. federal and state […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—IBM has put its considerable weight behind blockchain to advance the technology in the enterprise, including offering blockchain as a service to developers. Blockchain is a permissionless distributed database based on the Bitcoin protocol that maintains a continuously growing list of data records hardened against tampering and revision, even by its operators. The initial […]