Darryl K. Taft

During a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) today, IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty announced several new advances and partnerships built around the IBM Watson cognitive computing platform. The news signals the rapid adoption of Watson technology by consumers and that Watson technology is increasingly touching hundreds of millions of individuals around the […]

Truly marking an end of an era at IBM, executive vice president Steve Mills has retired from the company. Mills, 64, whose most recent position – attained in January 2015 — was executive vice president of software and systems, spent over 40 years at IBM, having joined the company straight out of college. Mills joined […]

Compuware, a mainframe-dedicated software company, announced a series of partnerships, a major acquisition, and new innovation in its software portfolio to empower enterprises to incorporate mainframe applications into their cross-platform Agile and DevOps processes. Compuware CEO Chris O’Malley says although mainframe applications remain indispensable as systems of record and as back-end support for customer engagement, […]

Helium, a San Francisco-based Internet of things (IoT) startup, today announced the introduction of the Helium Sensor Development Kit to enable IoT developers expanded access to the Helium full-stack platform. The Sensor Development Kit consists of a Helium Smart Sensor, which includes an extensible daughtercard, and Web APIs, both of which enable Helium partners to […]

Accenture today announced it has acquired CRMWaypoint, a supplier of cloud advisory and technology services in the Netherlands, specializing in Salesforce cloud solutions for sales, service and marketing.The acquisition is another move in Accenture’s strategy to help enterprises move to the cloud to take advantage of a new era of service delivery and flexibility. And […]

IBM Sees Flash, Hyper-convergence Among Top 2016 Storage Trends As fast access to massive amounts of data becomes increasingly more critical, expect to see these advances in storage in 2016. Flash-Based Data Storage Takes Off In 2016, watch the move of external disk storage to flash accelerate for all active, Tier 1 storage needs. By […]

With 2015 at its end, Facebook took a look back at its year of using, developing and contributing to open-source software. In a blog post, Christine Abernathy, developer advocate for the Facebook open-source team, said the open-source program at Facebook has grown, not only in terms of new projects, but also in the size and […]

HTML5 and Qt will both be key technologies used to develop connected systems within the vehicle, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan study. In the study, Frost & Sullivan analyzes the pros and cons for each development environment along with key in-vehicle use cases. Both solutions provide unique tools for developers, and both solutions […]

IBM recently launched its Alert Notification Service, a new service on IBM Cloud that enables DevOps teams to rapidly receive and respond to alerts about potential issues with their applications, before their users are affected. Available in beta on the company’s Bluemix platform as a service (PaaS), the IBM Alert Notification Service works with the […]

All I Want for Christmas: A File-Transfer Wish List Here’s a holiday wish list for what IT professionals are longing for when it comes to secure, timely file transfers to colleagues or customers. The Latest and Greatest File-transfer solutions shouldn’t just be different systems cobbled together—they should be functional, easy to use and have a […]