Darryl K. Taft

Typesafe, provider of a platform for building “Reactive” systems and the company behind Play Framework, Akka and Scala, today announced the results of its survey profiling Reactive adoption in the enterprise. Key findings of the survey indicate that Reactive system adoption is going mainstream. Indeed, 77 percent of respondents said they are already going Reactive […]

The Cloud Foundry Foundation, steward of the open-source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service technology, has introduced the Cloud Foundry PaaS Certification program, an effort to guarantee reliable portability across PaaS products in a multi-vendor, multi-cloud environment. The foundation also announced that CenturyLink AppFog, HPE Helion Cloud Foundry, Huawei FusionStage, IBM Bluemix, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP HANA Cloud […]

Apple and IBM today announced the release of a new wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS apps, increasing the number of apps in the portfolio to more than 100 and expanding it to more industries and professions. Since partnering in 2014, the Apple and IBM collaboration has yielded a slew of made-for-business apps – nearly […]

Mendix, an application platform-as-a-service (APaaS) provider, and Software Improvement Group (SIG), an independent advisory firm for software quality and improvement, have announced a partnership and the launch of Mendix Application Quality Monitor, a cloud-based service designed to help customers monitor the maintainability of Mendix applications. The Mendix platform enables enterprises to implement bimodal IT, a […]

IBM today announced the opening of its global headquarters for Watson Internet of Things (IoT) in Munich. In addition, Big Blue launched a series of new offerings, capabilities and ecosystem partners to extend the power of cognitive computing to the billions of connected devices, sensors and systems that comprise the IoT. These new offerings will […]

The North Face, maker of outdoor apparel, equipment and footwear, launched a new interactive online shopping experience powered by IBM’s Watson. In keeping with The North Face’s mission of applying technology to the retail experience, customers can now use natural conversation as they shop online via an intuitive, dialog-based recommendation engine powered by the Watson-based […]

App Producers Must Adapt to Business Climate Changes Thriving in a changing business climate means adapting business models and operations, and applying best-in-class people, processes and technology. Market Trends Impacting Application Producers Producers are seeing the greatest potential in providing mobile apps (51 percent), supporting virtualization (45 percent), offering subscription-based licensing (43 percent), embracing public […]

Novo Nordisk and IBM’s Watson Health unit announced that the two organizations will work together to create diabetes care solutions built on the Watson Health Cloud. The agreement combines Novo Nordisk’s deep understanding of diabetes with IBM’s strength in cognitive computing based on its Watson cognitive system. The companies will explore possibilities for improved diabetes […]

Elastic, the company behind the popular Elasticsearch open source project and a hosted and managed Elasticsearch offering, has announced that the Elastic stack is now available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Elastic’s addition to the Azure Marketplace means developers can use preconfigured templates to more easily and quickly deploy an Elasticsearch cluster on Azure. The company’s […]

IBM Research announced it is expanding its Green Horizons initiative globally to help city governments, utility companies and factories tackle issues related to air pollution and climate change. The announcement builds on a year-long collaboration with the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) and includes more than a dozen commercial deals and research engagements on four […]

Nutrino and IBM today announced a new IBM Watson-powered app to provide nutrition recommendations for expectant mothers. The new Nutrino App Powered by Watson (Nutrino App) provides expectant mothers with real-time, science-based, personalized and contextual nutrition advice. The Nutrino App combines Nutrino’s nutrition insights platform with Watson’s natural language capability and deep question and answer […]

IBM has made a couple of moves to open up its security platform, including launching the IBM Security App Exchange, a marketplace for the security community to create and share apps based on IBM security technologies. Big Blue also announced it is opening its security analytics platform, IBM Security QRadar, enabling customers, business partners and […]