Darryl K. Taft

IBM officially launched its Bluemix Local service, bringing it out of preview. Big Blue debuted Bluemix Local at its InterConnect 2015 conference last February and today accelerated the company’s hybrid cloud capabilities by delivering this cloud platform that enables enterprises to quickly and securely build apps and deploy them across public, private and on-premises environments. […]

10 Misconceptions About Moving Big Data to the Cloud While the cloud is ideal for big data storage and processing, misconceptions about moving big data to the cloud are hindering companies from doing so. Some Data Is Just Too Large to Move to the Cloud This might be true if you are using a method […]

Most programmers find their interest in computer science before age 16 and carry this passion into their professional life, according to a recent survey. A Code School survey of 2,200 coders and developers reveals some specific traits and tendencies that may predict that a youth has a future career in computer science. The survey polled […]

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced new Azure Data Lake services along with a new query language called U-SQL. Microsoft announced new Azure Data Lake services for analytics in the cloud that includes a hyper-scale repository, a new analytics service built on YARN that enables data developers and data scientists to analyze all data, and HDInsight, […]

Citizen developers — those developers not necessarily officially sanctioned by corporate IT — are gaining an increasing amount of power and flexibility in the enterprise as they build apps for their own specialized uses, according to a recent survey. They survey, conducted by Intuit QuickBase, set out to learn more about how its customers were […]

Actiance, a provider of communications compliance, archiving and analytics solutions, announced that IBM will offer the Actiance Platform as part of its Information Lifecycle Governance (ILG) product portfolio. Actiance’s active compliance and archiving platform will further IBM’s cloud-based analytics capabilities and enable customers to govern enterprise communications across more than 70 different communication channels, including […]

IBM today announced plans to acquire Meteorix, a key Workday services partner, to help companies align people with financial performance and redefine work with the speed and simplicity of cloud-delivered finance and human resources services. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Workday provides enterprise cloud applications for finance and HR. With an exclusive […]

IBM today announced a set of new, cloud-based Industry Platforms as part of an effort to globally expand its business solutions capabilities. The company also announced the opening of a new cloud center in Bangalore, India. The new portfolio of IBM Cloud Industry Platforms and Solutions provides users with access to cloud and big data […]

Adobe announced Analysis Workspace, a new way for companies to analyze, share and use marketing data through Adobe Analytics. The new offering, which has roots in Adobe’s creative heritage, changes how companies organize and visualize their data. With Adobe’s Analysis Workplace, analysts can manipulate views of data to create polished analyses that they can then […]

NEW YORK—MongoDB, the company behind the popular open-source, eponymous NoSQL database, has undergone a rebranding of sorts, in that it now positions its flagship technology as the database for not just big, but giant ideas. At its Launchpad event held at the American Museum of Natural History here Sept. 24, MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria said […]

Apache Spark, the hot open-source data processing engine, is outgrowing Apache Hadoop in terms of user adoption, according to a recent survey. Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Apache Spark, released the findings of a survey of more than 1,400 respondents from the Spark community to identify how organizations are using the data […]

Five Ways Big Data, Analytics Are Transforming the Trucking Industry Fleets are taking advantage of big data and the increased reporting frequency of telematics devices to achieve safer, more efficient and productive driving. Mobile Notifications Using an open-architecture remote diagnostics system, truck drivers and fleet managers can receive mobile notifications about pending performance issues. The […]