Darryl K. Taft

FLUSHING, N.Y.—Each year, IBM works to improve on its performance at the US Open tennis tournament—this year by adding new and enhanced analytics, social, mobile, big data and cloud capabilities to bring a unique user experience to fans both onsite and around the world. For more than 20 years, IBM has collaborated with the United […]

Compose, IBM’s database-as-a-service (DBaaS) unit, today announced the availability of its RethinkDB database as a hosted service offering. The production-ready hosted RethinkDB offering is optimized for modern Web and mobile app development, where developers seek a solution that provides flexible, cost-effective scalability for building real-time Web apps and mobile solutions. RethinkDB is an open-source, scalable […]

Embarcadero Technologies, an application and database development toolmaker, announced it is helping millions of C++ and Delphi developers to move to Windows 10 with the latest release of its rapid application development (RAD) tool. The company’s new Embarcadero RAD Studio 10 Seattle not only targets developers building Windows 10 applications, but also those building OS […]

Apache Spark has been called a game changer and perhaps the most significant open source project of the next decade, and it’s been taking the big data world by storm since it was open sourced in 2010. Apache Spark is an open source data processing engine built for speed, ease of use and sophisticated analytics. […]

IBM and GENCI, France’s high performance computing agency, today announced a collaboration aimed at speeding up the path to exascale computing—the ability of a computing system to perform at least 1 exaflop, or 1 billion billion calculations, in 1 second. The collaboration, planned to run for at least 18 months, will focus on preparing complex […]

Globant, a leading Latin American-based solution provider, announced Cognitive Computing Studio in an effort to take advantage of the rise in the use of cognitive computing systems as the ultimate solution to improve companies’ capacities. The Cognitive Computing Studio will develop products and services using both big data and Globant’s expertise in fields such as […]

NEW YORK – When it comes to mobile, the browser has been sidelined. Developers instead ought to focus on enhancing the in-app experience and making apps more compelling, as users are spending more time than ever on their mobile devices, according to a Yahoo executive. Simon Khalaf, senior vice president of Publishing Products at Yahoo, […]

NEW YORK—In its push to better prepare developers for the emerging mobile-first world, Yahoo held its Mobile Developer Conference here, where the company announced new functionality in its mobile developer tools to an audience of more than 500. This East Coast version of the conference follows Yahoo’s inaugural event held last February in San Francisco […]

The engineering team at Facebook is constantly tuning its systems and apps to run more smoothly and better suit users, particularly those on mobile devices. To that end the Facebook team set out to reduce the number of crashes in the Facebook iOS app to increase its reliability. “In the past, most of the crashes […]

Hortonworks, a provider of enterprise Hadoop solutions and services, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Onyara, the creator of and key contributor to Apache NiFi. A top-level open-source project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), Apache NiFi is an easy-to-use system to process and distribute data. The acquisition will make it easy for […]

Nokia and the Ellie Mae mortgage software company have tapped big data solutions from WANdisco and Talend to help deliver continuous availability, performance and scalability to their customers. WANdisco, a provider of continuous availability software for enterprises, recently announced that Nokia subsidiary Nokia Networks has expanded its use of WANdisco’s big data technology. Nokia Networks […]

Basho Technologies, the creator of the Riak database, recently announced that it is collaborating with Cisco Systems to deliver a framework enabling the Riak KV NoSQL database to run on Apache Mesos. Mesos is an open-source cluster manager that allows for resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks. The integration with Mesos automates […]