Darryl K. Taft

Working from the premise that no application is an island, IBM announced new technology, services and efforts to help connect disparate systems via application programming interfaces (APIs) and help organizations navigate the so-called API Economy. Big Blue delivered an update of API Harmony, an intelligent cloud-based API matchmaking technology for developers, as part of a […]

9 Reasons Video File Transfers Can Be Nightmares Many companies have experienced file transfer horror stories, mostly when trying to transfer high-resolution video using File Transfer Protocol, or FTP. Your Company Struggles With 40-Plus-Year-Old FTP Technology The original protocol still used to transfer files across most enterprises today was written in the 1970s when everyday […]

How Pegasystems Is Helping Companies Transform the Customer Experience Pegasystems is helping leading brands from around the world develop strategic business applications as they revolutionize the customer experience. The Hanover Insurance Group Established in 1852, The Hanover Insurance Group, which has more than 2,200 independent agents in the United States, is on a journey to […]

IBM continues its effort to bolster its cloud platform, this time with the acquisition of Gravitant, a provider of brokerage software for the cloud. Privately held Austin, Texas-based Gravitant develops cloud-based software to enable organizations to easily plan, buy and manage, or “broker,” software and computing services from multiple suppliers across hybrid clouds. With these […]

IBM announced that BeBop Technology has tapped IBM Cloud to create a cloud-based film and video editing service to help speed and ease the production of media and entertainment projects. BeBop’s new IBM Cloud-powered namesake platform provides secure, remote editing and lowers video production costs. IBM officials said BeBop is the first virtualized cloud-based editing […]

IBM Streaming Analytics and IBM Message Hub are now available as services on the IBM Cloud. These tools are based on the popular Apache Kafka messaging engine and are designed to work together to make it easier for developers to integrate external data into their apps, as well as visualize and continuously analyze this data. […]

Typesafe, creator of the Scala language and the company behind the Play Framework and the Akka toolkit, announced the launch of full lifecycle support for Apache Spark, the popular big data processing engine. Spark is quickly gathering broad industry support from enterprises and the world’s leading IT vendors, including IBM, as the preferred in-memory approach […]

LAS VEGAS—IBM signed a definitive agreement to acquire The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based Web properties, including WSI, Weather.com, Weather Underground and The Weather Company brand. The news of the acquisition played heavily at the IBM Insight 2015 conference here, where IBM made a series of announcements with The Weather Company, including plans to […]

LAS VEGAS—Highlighting the success of its Watson cognitive system, IBM announced the addition of six new Watson Ecosystem partners who are developing apps and services powered by cognitive computing. Introduced at the IBM Insight 2015 conference here, the new partners, Engage, Macaw Speech, Opentopic, StatSocial, Vennli, and Domus Semo Sancus, are developing use cases in […]

LAS VEGAS — IBM announced new IBM Insight Cloud Services in collaboration with Twitter and The Weather Company. The services are designed to help users cut through the noise of unstructured data, and help turn streaming data into insights. IBM made the announcement at its Insight 2015 conference here. The new cloud-based services use analytic […]