Darryl K. Taft

OpsClarity, which provides Web-scale application monitoring solutions, has announced that its Intelligent Monitoring offering now provides monitoring for a growing suite of open-source data processing frameworks. The technologies supported include modern data processing frameworks like Apache Kafka, Apache Storm and Apache Spark, as well as datastores such as Elasticsearch, Cassandra and MongoDB. The OpsClarity solution […]

Seven Trends IT Vendors Should Keep an Eye On in 2016 While it’s hard to know which predictions will come to fruition and which will flop in 2016, here are seven trends every vendor should watch out for this year. Cloud Adoption Continues to Accelerate Over the last few years, businesses everywhere have been migrating […]

How to Maintain Business Continuity During Disasters From natural disasters to human error, businesses’ data is at risk every day. That’s why it’s important to create and maintain a proper business continuity plan. Learn About Your Threat Landscape Hurricanes, ransomware viruses and lightning storms are only some of many real threats for which all businesses […]

IBM today announced a broad expansion of its Cloud Data Services portfolio, with more than 25 services now available on the IBM Cloud. The new IBM cloud services are designed to help developers build, deploy and manage Web and mobile applications and enable data scientists to discover hidden trends using data and analytics in the […]

Software development tools provider SmartBear Software has released a major upgrade to its SwaggerHub developer collaboration environment. SwaggerHub is a place for development teams to collaborate and coordinate the entire lifecycle of an API. With the new release, SwaggerHub users can now create organizations and teams to organize, share and collaborate on Swagger API definitions […]

10 Mistakes to Avoid to Make Open Source More Secure Open source is becoming more popular in the enterprise. But so are open-source vulnerabilities. Here is how you can prevent open source-related mishaps in 2016. Remember, With Open Source Code, You’re on Your Own Most of the open-source components you use come “as is,” without […]

Buying yet another digital marketing company, IBM today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ecx.io—a digital agency headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany. IBM has been busy over the past week, announcing plans to acquire two other digital marketing firms over the last several days. The proposed acquisition of ecx.io extends the strategy and […]

Less than a week after agreeing to acquire Resource/Ammirati, IBM today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aperto, another digital marketing agency based in Berlin. As with Resource/Ammirati, upon completion of this transaction, Aperto will join the IBM Interactive Experience (IBM iX) team, supporting IBM’s growth in the largest economy in Europe. […]

At its Connect 2016 conference, IBM today announced new capabilities along with continuing momentum for its social business offerings, with users ushering in a new era of collaboration with IBM Verse and Connections. The expanded capabilities in IBM’s collaboration portfolio include innovations that make it easier for users to gain and share business insights across […]

Microsoft announced support for Apache Cordova development in its Visual Studio Code lightweight text editor. With the Visual Studio Code Cordova Tools Extension, developers can debug hybrid apps, find Cordova-specific commands in the Command Palette, and use IntelliSense to browse objects, functions and parameters. “You can use it with both ‘stock’ versions of the Apache […]