Darryl K. Taft

IBM and AT&T announced an expansion of their long-term strategic relationship to bring businesses a full suite of networking, application and hosting services. Under the agreement, AT&T will transition its managed application and managed hosting services unit to IBM. IBM will then align these managed service capabilities with its IBM Cloud portfolio. IBM will also […]

When Google introduced the beta of Angular 2 earlier this week, it did so with the help of more than 1,300 contributors to the Angular open-source project, not the least of which was Microsoft. Indeed, Google wrote Angular 2 in TypeScript—Microsoft’s superset of JavaScript. The Angular engineering team also used Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, […]

Six Internet of Things Predictions for 2016 Leaders in every industry are recognizing the potential of IoT and M2M technologies as they are increasingly used to transform businesses. M2M Will Move Out of the Back Office M2M has traditionally been used to automate internal business processes. Today, companies across a variety of industries are evolving […]

‘If You Could Say One Thing to Your Network, What Would It Be?’ When SolarWinds whimsically asked IT pros what they would say to their networks if they could say one thing to them, the answers were both amusing and telling. The Blame Game Sorry. Not sorry. I will always place the blame on you. […]

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 […]