Darryl K. Taft

Enterprise infrastructure software provider CA Technologies announced its intent to acquire BlazeMeter, a provider of continuous application performance testing software for DevOps. CA, on Sept. 20, announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held BlazeMeter. Terms of the deal were not disclosed; however, the transaction is expected to close by the end of the […]

With Their Jobs Becoming Ever More Complex, IT Pros Deserve Their Day The third Tuesday of every September is IT Professionals Day. Here’s a look at all they do that make them deserving of a day to honor them. How Many Devices Connected? More users are connecting a diverse set of electronic devices, including those […]

IBM has announced a series of new offerings that enable users to deploy private cloud environments while also tapping into the IBM Cloud to balance workloads based on changing business demands. At its Edge 2016 conference in Las Vegas on Sept. 19, IBM announced new hardware solutions and cloud offerings that simplify the movement of […]

Oracle announced that Java 9’s release may once again be delayed and is now expected to be in July 2017. In a message on the OpenJDK mailing list this week, Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, said the team needs more time to work on Project Jigsaw, which aims to […]

5 Lessons Businesses Should Learn From the Clinton Email Scandal Businesses should learn from Hillary Clinton’s email scandal that there is a right way and a wrong way to handle email. Here are some best practices to steer clear of potential issues. Understand the Complexities of the Tech Landscape The technical nuances of email and […]

GitLab’s recent $20 million venture capital haul signals a resurgence in the use of application development tools aimed at supporting teams of developers. Earlier this week, GitLab, which provides a collaboration platform that enables developers to develop, test and deploy software together, announced it received $20 million in a funding round led by a new […]

A recent Honeywell survey of manufacturing executives indicates that a majority of respondents (67 percent) plan to use data analytics to address issues with equipment. The survey shows that anaytics are becoming core to what Honeywell refers to as the industrial internet of things (IioT) as a way for companies to save money on equipment […]

Kony, which provides an enterprise mobility platform for developers, announced results of a recent survey that shows that developers find creating applications for wearables and connected devices to be a challenge. The survey that found a majority of designers (69 percent) and developers (65 percent) said they believe that application design and development for wearables […]

NuoDB, which provides an elastic SQL database of the same name, has announced the availability of NuoDB 2.5, which makes it easier for users to migrate existing legacy databases to NuoDB. Release 2.5 features a host of SQL enhancements, including window functions and SQL optimizations. NuoDB also enhanced the database’s management interface to make it […]

A Look at the First IBM Health Corps Grant Recipients The program taps IBM’s cognitive technologies to help communities address challenges, such as primary care gaps, health worker shortages, and access to safe water and nutritious food. American Cancer Society (ACS) Very few cancer patients in sub-Saharan Africa receive chemotherapy; this deficiency results in lower […]

CA Technologies has delivered a set of new capabilities for its API management portfolio that simplify and speed up API development. The new capabilities include a new release of CA Live API Creator, which, unlike other solutions, does not require developers to have database expertise. The tool’s graphical interface enables even non-developers to have a […]

5 Guidelines for Ensuring Proper Data Preparation Organizations looking to analyze big data for deep insights need data that is clean, organized, detailed and easily understood. What’s more, data prep is crucial throughout the workflow. Data Preparation Needs to Be More Than Just Cleansing Cleaning data is a small part of the battle, and even […]