Darryl K. Taft

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 […]

IBM recently signed a deal to migrate the IT operations of the Giant Eagle supermarket chain to the IBM Cloud. Giant Eagle is one of the United States’ largest privately held multi-format food, fuel and pharmacy retailers with locations across Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana. Big Blue is in the initial stages of […]

5 Ways an Open Technology Approach Benefits the Trucking Industry Using an open technology approach when capturing data from myriad truck makes and models ensures that fleets are as successful as possible. Fleet Transparency Truck fleets usually include a wide variety of makes and models. Using an open technology approach, truck owners can get a […]

As a software development organization, IBM said it is looking at three primary programming languages/development environments for enterprise use going forward: Java, Node.js and Swift. Java is ubiquitous in the enterprise and IBM has amassed a cache of Java talent over the years. IBM has been active in the Node.js and JavaScript community, acquiring resources […]

IBM today announced its acquisition of Clearleap, a provider of cloud-based video services, to boost its cloud computing initiatives. Big Blue’s play here in acquiring Clearleap is to accelerate the delivery of video service as a strategic source of data for business. The move is aimed at empowering users to access video from any device […]