Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft this week delivered on its vision of building bridges to non-Microsoft platforms with an early version of its bridge for running iOS apps on Windows. At its Build 2015 conference in San Francisco in April, Microsoft announced a series of “bridging” technologies to enable developers to bring their existing iOS, Android, Web and desktop […]

IBM announced that its Watson cognitive computing system will gain the ability to “see” by bringing together Watson’s image analytics capabilities with data and images obtained from Merge Healthcare‘s medical imaging management platform. In addition, IBM said it plans to acquire Merge in a deal worth $1 billion. Merge is a provider of medical image […]

SAS, a major business intelligence and analytics software provider, announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is using SAS analytics to root out fraud among its $74 billion food stamp program. More specifically, the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is using SAS predictive analytics to fight fraud in its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). […]

Microsoft has released the final version of Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015, the company’s on-premises application lifecycle management (ALM), DevOps and development team collaboration tool. TFS 2015, available here, provides a range of new capabilities throughout the development process with special emphasis on DevOps, Microsoft said. TFS covers the entire application lifecycle. It provides source […]

Continuing to deliver on its enterprise mobility partnership with Apple, IBM today announced new services to deploy Macs at scale in the enterprise via the cloud. These new IBM MobileFirst Managed Mobility Services help users easily and securely integrate Macs with their enterprise systems and applications. IBM said it based these new services on experience […]

CA Technologies announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Xceedium, a provider of privileged identity management solutions that protect on-premise, cloud and hybrid IT environments. Acquiring Xceedium will extend CA’s security portfolio with a comprehensive solution for controlling and protecting IT administrator or other privileged user accounts from external attacks or insider mistakes […]

Zoho’s Site24x7, a cloud monitoring service for DevOps and IT operations, has announced the launch of its Network Monitoring beta, which provides performance insight and optimization for network devices. Zoho designed the Network Monitoring product based on ManageEngine’s enterprise-class network performance monitoring software, OpManager. ManageEngine is a division of Zoho. The new product provides monitoring […]

As the market for Node.js continues to pick up, companies such as NodeSource and Modulus are stepping in to meet the needs of a growing number of developers seeking tools and support. NodeSource, a provider of Node.js tools, integration and support for the enterprise, announced it is doubling the size of its leadership team with […]

IBM and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) recently announced a partnership to improve computer security education by providing software that simulates the experience of battling real-world cyber-security threats. The collaboration will enhance an existing laboratory at RIT to enable students studying computing security to use IBM software for security intelligence and advanced threat protection. […]

Azul Systems, a provider of Java runtime solutions, recently announced the availability of Cassandra HealthCheck, a new business consulting service designed to help enterprises optimize their Apache Cassandra deployments. The new service helps users eliminate Java-related barriers and improve the runtime consistency, reliability and up-time of their Cassandra deployments. For instance, Azul recently achieved an […]

As it focuses on the cloud now more than ever, IBM today announced that its inventors have received more than 400 new cloud patents in 2015. Over the past 18 months, the company has secured nearly 1,200 cloud patents, IBM officials claimed. The new IBM cloud patents cover a wide range of areas in the […]

In Praise of Sysadmins: IT’s Jacks-of-All-Trades All too often, the work of system administrators gets overlooked. So one day a year, we celebrate their work. Turn It Off As any sysadmin knows, rebooting a computer often clears simple problems. Take It Easy It’s a rare day that a sysadmin doesn’t have to tackle a major […]