Darryl K. Taft

Cloud9, a browser-based software development environment provider, has launched a fully featured, online integrated development environment (IDE) for Salesforce developers—Cloud9 for Salesforce. Initially released in beta at Salesforce.com‘s Dreamforce 2015 conference in September, Cloud9 officials said this launch is a step toward Cloud9’s larger vision of improving the development experience by offering a more integrated […]

Welltok, a provider of a consumer enterprise platform for the health care industry, announced it has successfully rolled out a Watson-powered version of its CafeWell Health Optimization Platform to IBM employees. The move will help Big Blue tap the fruits of its homegrown cognitive computing technology to help revolutionize how the company manages health resources […]

IT, Marketers Must Collaborate More Effectively: Rackspace Survey A Rackspace survey uncovers a disconnect between e-commerce CMOs and CIOs, even though they must work together more closely than ever before. Different Perspectives Set the Stage for Challenging Relationships Rackspace surveyed 201 marketing and IT leaders to determine the state of their relationships, the biggest obstacles […]

Koding, a San Francisco-based cloud development organization, this week announced its second annual global virtual hackathon, set for Dec. 12 and 13. The event will be sponsored by IBM and is expected to draw more than 100,000 participants worldwide, which is expected to set a new Guinness World Record—surpassing last year’s inaugural event, which set […]

NEW YORK – IBM today hosted its Relay 2015 event here, a celebration of the company’s diverse IBM Cloud offerings and an opportunity to demonstrate how IBM is helping customers take advantage of the cloud and cognitive computing to build a new generation of apps and services. The event, attended by IBM customers, partners and […]

Software AG today announced the availability of the Apama Streaming Analytics platform release 9.9, which adds support for predictive analytics and Internet of things (IoT) protocols and standards. Apama is Software AG’s platform for streaming analytics and intelligent, automated action on fast-moving big data. It combines event processing, messaging, in-memory data management and visualization and […]

IBM recently upped its storage game with a series of new innovations to its IBM Spectrum Storage family of software-defined storage offerings. The products aim to help organizations improve storage management, data security and reduce data costs as they deploy new technology to support cognitive and other data-driven applications across hybrid cloud environments. New features […]

MongoDB this week announced MongoDB 3.2, a major new release of the database targeted to reach new users within the enterprise, including business analysts, data scientists and executives. With MongoDB deployed across a wider range of an enterprise’s application portfolio, data analysts, database administrators (DBAs) and operations teams need to integrate the database within their […]

IBM has announced two new services for IBM Cloud—IBM Active Deploy and IBM Event Hub to help developers run updates with no downtime. The new services help developers avoid disruption to apps when deploying updates, eliminate complexity from manual processes, and integrate data from sources of real-time information. IBM Active Deploy, now available on IBM’s […]