Darryl K. Taft

10 Steps to a Digital Transformation in the Enterprise We outline best practices for how IT can work with the enterprise’s business side to drive digital innovation and lead the required organizational changes. Involve the CEO According to a recent McKinsey survey, two-thirds of high-performing digital organizations say their CEOs personally sponsor digital initiatives, compared […]

IBM has announced IBM Object Storage, an IBM Cloud service that enables developers to interactively compose and connect object storage into their apps. This service, which comes as a follow-on to IBM’s recent acquisition of Cleversafe, provides app developers with a scalable, API-accessible platform to store and retrieve unstructured data, as well as build apps […]

Gigster, an on-demand software development and design provider, today announced a $10 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Y Combinator Continuity Fund I, Ron Conway of SV Angel, Ashton Kutcher of Sound Ventures and Jason Calacanis of Launch Fund. Gigster provides on-demand software development and design […]

Microsoft announced it is open-sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine that powers its Edge Web browser. The company made the announcement today at the JSConf US Last Call in Amelia Island, Fla. Microsoft said it will open-source the core components of Chakra as ChakraCore, which will include all the key components of the JavaScript engine powering […]

IBM Relays Its Message About Its Hybrid Cloud Endeavors In addition to IBM’s SoftLayer IaaS, Bluemix PaaS and many SaaS offerings, IBM has delivered its Relay technology to customers moving to the hybrid cloud. Capturing Growth in the Cloud Era Steve Robinson, general manager of IBM Cloud Platform Services, gave an opening keynote on growth […]

Codeship, a Web-based continuous delivery service for testing and deploying code, announced it has received a funding round of $1.5 million from new and existing investors to build up the company. This latest investment, mostly from existing investors like Sigma Prime Ventures, Boston Seed Capital and F-Prime Capital, brings the total funding raised till date […]

IBM announced it is expanding its Direct Link services through new collaborations with Verizon, Equinix, and Digital Realty, among others, to help enterprises adopt a hybrid cloud infrastructure. IBM Direct Link provides enterprises with a reliable and secure connection to the cloud by enabling them to directly plug into the IBM Cloud through private and […]

Microsoft integrated the latest version of IncrediBuild‘s software acceleration technology into Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. Microsoft shipped Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 earlier this week. The inclusion of IncrediBuild provides easy access to enhanced acceleration and build visualization to all Visual Studio 2015 users. Current users of Visual Studio 2015 will have IncrediBuild available […]

Progress Software shipped the latest release of its Telerik Platform for mobile app development for iOS, Android and Windows Phone applications. The new release, Telerik Platform 2.0, enables developers to create mobile user experiences with high productivity in a fraction of the time, the company said. By enabling developers to have complete access to the […]

Why Cloud Vendors Must Make the Service Side of SaaS a Priority We examine the often-forgotten “S” in SaaS—service—and explore steps the cloud community can take to improve its customer experience. Publishing High-Level Roadmaps Further in Advance Customers want to understand how their business will be impacted by future upgrades, including how the technology can […]