Darryl K. Taft

How Microsoft Is Applying AI for Enterprise Digital Transformation Microsoft demonstrates how it is using artificial intelligence to help customers solve today’s most pressing problems. Mobile-First, Cloud-First Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said a mobile-first, cloud-first strategy is the first step to digital transformation. Artificial intelligence Microsoft says artificial intelligence can help to accelerate organizations’ move […]

IBM has dipped into its bag of technologies and come up with a new cloud-based data solution that very well may be a winner. IBM introduced an effort known as Project DataWorks, which is a Watson-based initiative that taps the cognitive capabilities of IBM’s Watson to help users integrate all types of data and make […]

Microsoft Amplifies Its Digital Transformation Theme at Ignite 2016 The theme of Microsoft’s Ignite conference is helping businesses with their digital transformation. One way to achieve this, the company said, is with its cloud-friendly server Windows Server 2016. Innovation and Transformation Julia White, Microsoft corporate vice president and emcee of Microsoft Ignite 2016, called the […]

ATLANTA—Microsoft is working to make artificial intelligence available to everybody in a process the company refers to as “democratizing” AI. The Microsoft approach is to take AI “from the ivory towers and make it accessible for all,” the company said. It all started many years ago in Microsoft’s research labs, where researchers in Microsoft facilities […]

ATLANTA—At its Microsoft Ignite 2016 conference here, Microsoft today announced a new strategic partnership with Adobe where Adobe is moving its Marketing Cloud, Creative Cloud and Document Cloud to the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure platform. With this partnership, Adobe will make Microsoft Azure its “preferred cloud platform” for the Adobe Marketing Cloud, Adobe Creative Cloud […]

5 Ways MSPs Can Derive Recurring Revenue From Office 365 We look at ways MSPs can derive recurring revenue from reselling Office 365. This includes controlling margins and bundling value-added products and services. Owning the Customer Relationship Owning the customer relationship in the long term is the most certain path to recurring revenue. Businesses that […]

Microsoft on Sept. 22 announced the formal release of TypeScript 2.0, which is available as a download as well as with Visual Studio Code. TypeScript 2.0 is Microsoft’s programming language that is a superset of JavaScript. Microsoft launched TypeScript in 2012 and released TypeScript 1.0 two years ago. With TypeScript, Microsoft does JavaScript one better […]

IBM continues to increase its cloud footprint and expand its global cloud presence with the opening of a cloud data center in Oslo. The new data center, opened in Fetsund, which is 30 kilometers outside Oslo, is the first cloud data center in the Nordic region, IBM said. The new facility in Norway marks IBM’s […]

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 […]