Darryl K. Taft

What the World Would Look Like Without IT Professionals IT professionals now have a day each year that honors them. Here’s a look at what life might look like if it were not for these unsung heroes of our businesses. Is the Internet Down? POOF! Immediately after all the IT pros have vanished, someone would […]

With the US Open tennis tournament coming to a close today, IBM, which has been providing IT infrastructure and apps for the event, is testing a new kind of social sharing technology called Simulcastr. Simulcastr is a pilot feature within the IBM-developed official US Open iPhone app. Developed by IBM Research and IBM Interactive Experience, […]

Alteryx, which provides a data blending and analytics platform, announced that in-database data blending with Amazon Web Services’ Amazon Redshift is available as part of the newly released Alteryx Analytics 10.0. This enables data analysts and other line-of-business users to use the Amazon Redshift cloud data warehouse to blend data at petabyte scale. The new […]

IBM announced new headquarters and new leadership for its Watson Health unit, along with new Watson Health Cloud capabilities and a series of new partnerships for the organization. IBM opened its new IBM Watson Health global headquarters in Cambridge, Mass., and announced that Deborah DiSanzo is joining the company as the business unit’s general manager. […]

IBM announced it has acquired Node.js specialist StrongLoop, giving the systems, software and services giant a leg up on expertise in one of the fastest growing development frameworks for creating and delivering APIs. The move brings additional Node.js talent into IBM as the company sets its sights on the enterprise Node.js space. There are approximately […]

Intel today announced System Studio 2016, a major revision of its toolset for developers building applications for embedded systems and connected devices. The new release provides a comprehensive suite of tools to help system and embedded developers deliver more energy-efficient, higher-performing and smarter solutions for connected devices across a wide range of system and embedded […]

IBM announced a new agreement with Finnair, Finland’s largest airline, that will tap into IBM Cloud and Watson services to help the airline provide services like mobile on-flight services to its customers. The five-and-a-half year agreement will also transform Finnair’s current technology infrastructure into a flexible, hybrid cloud platform. Financial terms of the deal were […]

Adobe announced it is bringing new technology to Adobe Creative Cloud, including support for UltraHD (UHD), brilliant color technology improvements and new touch workflows. The company also said Adobe Primetime, one of eight solutions of Adobe Marketing Cloud, has extended its delivery and monetization capabilities for HTML5 video and offers new tools for pay-TV providers […]

Facebook announced it has expanded its Parse for IoT toolkit with new SDKs supporting additional platforms for Internet of things (IoT) app development. With this expansion of the Parse for IoT SDK line announced at Facebook’s F8 developer conference in March, developers can now build even more connected devices with Parse, using new dedicated SDKs […]

How Apache Spark Helped Eight Companies Grow Their Businesses Spark is a powerful processing engine powering millions of real-time apps every day. Here is how eight companies are using Spark to support their businesses. Spark Helps Shopify Make Wise Store Selections Shopify needed to understand what types of products its customers were selling in order […]

IBM has expanded its IoT Foundation—the company’s Internet of things platform—through an integration with ARM. Through this collaboration with ARM, IBM will provide out-of-the-box connectivity with ARM mbed-enabled devices to analytics services. This collaboration will enable organizations to access huge quantities of data from devices, such as industrial appliances, weather sensors and wearable monitoring devices, […]

Node.js specialist Nodejitsu announced it is transitioning its Node customer base to Progress Software’s Modulus, which also focuses on Node.js development and advancing the state of the server-side JavaScript environment. The transition comes several months after GoDaddy acquired Nodejitsu in February to help with the migration of GoDaddy’s systems to Node. “When we announced that […]