Darryl K. Taft

IT, Marketers Must Collaborate More Effectively: Rackspace Survey A Rackspace survey uncovers a disconnect between e-commerce CMOs and CIOs, even though they must work together more closely than ever before. Different Perspectives Set the Stage for Challenging Relationships Rackspace surveyed 201 marketing and IT leaders to determine the state of their relationships, the biggest obstacles […]

Koding, a San Francisco-based cloud development organization, this week announced its second annual global virtual hackathon, set for Dec. 12 and 13. The event will be sponsored by IBM and is expected to draw more than 100,000 participants worldwide, which is expected to set a new Guinness World Record—surpassing last year’s inaugural event, which set […]

NEW YORK – IBM today hosted its Relay 2015 event here, a celebration of the company’s diverse IBM Cloud offerings and an opportunity to demonstrate how IBM is helping customers take advantage of the cloud and cognitive computing to build a new generation of apps and services. The event, attended by IBM customers, partners and […]

Software AG today announced the availability of the Apama Streaming Analytics platform release 9.9, which adds support for predictive analytics and Internet of things (IoT) protocols and standards. Apama is Software AG’s platform for streaming analytics and intelligent, automated action on fast-moving big data. It combines event processing, messaging, in-memory data management and visualization and […]

IBM recently upped its storage game with a series of new innovations to its IBM Spectrum Storage family of software-defined storage offerings. The products aim to help organizations improve storage management, data security and reduce data costs as they deploy new technology to support cognitive and other data-driven applications across hybrid cloud environments. New features […]

MongoDB this week announced MongoDB 3.2, a major new release of the database targeted to reach new users within the enterprise, including business analysts, data scientists and executives. With MongoDB deployed across a wider range of an enterprise’s application portfolio, data analysts, database administrators (DBAs) and operations teams need to integrate the database within their […]

IBM has announced two new services for IBM Cloud—IBM Active Deploy and IBM Event Hub to help developers run updates with no downtime. The new services help developers avoid disruption to apps when deploying updates, eliminate complexity from manual processes, and integrate data from sources of real-time information. IBM Active Deploy, now available on IBM’s […]

Working from the premise that no application is an island, IBM announced new technology, services and efforts to help connect disparate systems via application programming interfaces (APIs) and help organizations navigate the so-called API Economy. Big Blue delivered an update of API Harmony, an intelligent cloud-based API matchmaking technology for developers, as part of a […]

9 Reasons Video File Transfers Can Be Nightmares Many companies have experienced file transfer horror stories, mostly when trying to transfer high-resolution video using File Transfer Protocol, or FTP. Your Company Struggles With 40-Plus-Year-Old FTP Technology The original protocol still used to transfer files across most enterprises today was written in the 1970s when everyday […]

How Pegasystems Is Helping Companies Transform the Customer Experience Pegasystems is helping leading brands from around the world develop strategic business applications as they revolutionize the customer experience. The Hanover Insurance Group Established in 1852, The Hanover Insurance Group, which has more than 2,200 independent agents in the United States, is on a journey to […]

IBM continues its effort to bolster its cloud platform, this time with the acquisition of Gravitant, a provider of brokerage software for the cloud. Privately held Austin, Texas-based Gravitant develops cloud-based software to enable organizations to easily plan, buy and manage, or “broker,” software and computing services from multiple suppliers across hybrid clouds. With these […]