Darryl K. Taft

IBM has taken its Watson cognitive computing technology to various industry segments and now is taking it to the Middle East and North Africa with the help of Mubadala Development Company. Mubadala is an Abu Dhabi-based investment and development company that is working with IBM to bring IBM Watson to the Middle East and North […]

Eight Key Facts About Email Security in the Enterprise by Darryl K. Taft How Much Are We Using Email? For the majority of employees, more time is spent using email than any other application. The average employee sends and receives 110 emails per day and spends approximately two-and-a-half hours per day using email (according to […]

As has been the case in the United States and Europe, IBM announced that its IBM Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) as well as platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings are gaining traction with startups in India. Indeed, IBM said several startup organizations across India have adopted IBM Cloud to develop applications and expand their businesses based on IBM’s Bluemix […]

Eight Factors to Consider for Database Capacity Planning By Darryl K. Taft Working Set Size This is the set of data a system needs to address during normal operation. A complex system will have many distinct working sets, but one or two usually dominate. In stream-like apps such as email or a news feed, the […]

Splunk, which provides a platform for analyzing machine-generated data, announced it has acquired Caspida, which offers machine learning and behavioral analytics solutions. The deal is worth $190 million, with Splunk acquiring the outstanding stock of Caspida and paying with approximately $127 million in cash and $63 million in restricted Splunk securities. Splunk officials said the […]

Cross-platform mobile development provider Xamarin extended its relationship with enterprise players by announcing a partnership with Oracle. Xamarin and Oracle announced an integrated solution to enable millions of developers to build fully native, scalable, cross-platform mobile apps for enterprises. Xamarin SDK for Oracle Mobile Cloud Service enables enterprises to create mobile solutions for iOS, Android, […]

IBM is boosting the high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities of the IBM Cloud by now offering Nvidia Tesla K80 dual-graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators on bare metal cloud servers. The new offering brings high-speed performance to the IBM SoftLayer infrastructure and enables companies using the IBM Cloud to build supercomputing clusters without having to expand their […]

Microsoft announced it has open-sourced its WorldWide Telescope (WWT) project, a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope and provides guided explorations of the universe. The WorldWide Telescope is now open sourced under the MIT license and has become an independent project as part of the .NET Foundation. WWT brings together imagery from […]

A recent survey commissioned by data integration platform provider Xplenty indicates that nearly one-third of business intelligence (BI) professionals are little more than “data janitors,” as they spend a majority of their time cleaning raw data for analytics. The study focused on several areas of the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) process, including preferences for […]

Cyber-Security, Comms Trump Text and Social for Compliance Officers by Darryl K. Taft Social Networks Posed Challenges in the Past The success of financial advisors can hinge on how effectively they communicate with clients. These conversations often take place outside the office and over channels other than email. For example, today’s advisors reach clients through […]

IBM is leading with its SoftLayer cloud infrastructure and Bluemix platform as a service to expand its cloud presence in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) by targeting the untapped startup and emerging business market in the region. Indeed, Big Blue officials noted that startups throughout the CEE region are increasingly turning to IBM to accelerate […]

Microsoft announced that the next major release of its flagship developer toolset, Visual Studio 2015, will be available for download on July 20. That means that less than three months since releasing Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC), Microsoft will deliver the next version of Visual Studio for developers. Microsoft released Visual Studio 2015 RC […]