Darryl K. Taft

IBM recently announced the opening of a new cloud data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, its second cloud data center in Brazil and its third in Latin America. Big Blue said this move is in response to the rapid growth of cloud adoption in Latin America, which is expected to grow more than 26 percent […]

IBM has announced a new IBM Cloud-based service to help automakers turn driver and vehicle data into actionable insights for predictive vehicle maintenance, real-time diagnostics on engine trouble, and to guide drivers to the most efficient traffic routes. With its new Internet of Things (IoT) for Automotive solution, IBM is helping automotive manufacturers gather data […]

IBM today announced two new business units that will apply the company’s strengths in big data, analytics and cognitive computing to the Internet of Things (IOT) and Education markets, respectively. Big Blue also named Harriet Green, formerly CEO and executive director of the Thomas Cook Group and of Premier Farnell plc, as vice president and […]

IBM, which has been an enterprise mobility partner with Apple for more than a year, is praising Apple’s move to six-digit passcodes in its new iOS 9 operating system. When iOS 9 becomes publicly available on Sept. 16, iDevices will default to six-digit passcodes instead of four. With the addition of two digits, iDevices will […]

What the World Would Look Like Without IT Professionals IT professionals now have a day each year that honors them. Here’s a look at what life might look like if it were not for these unsung heroes of our businesses. Is the Internet Down? POOF! Immediately after all the IT pros have vanished, someone would […]

With the US Open tennis tournament coming to a close today, IBM, which has been providing IT infrastructure and apps for the event, is testing a new kind of social sharing technology called Simulcastr. Simulcastr is a pilot feature within the IBM-developed official US Open iPhone app. Developed by IBM Research and IBM Interactive Experience, […]

Alteryx, which provides a data blending and analytics platform, announced that in-database data blending with Amazon Web Services’ Amazon Redshift is available as part of the newly released Alteryx Analytics 10.0. This enables data analysts and other line-of-business users to use the Amazon Redshift cloud data warehouse to blend data at petabyte scale. The new […]

IBM announced new headquarters and new leadership for its Watson Health unit, along with new Watson Health Cloud capabilities and a series of new partnerships for the organization. IBM opened its new IBM Watson Health global headquarters in Cambridge, Mass., and announced that Deborah DiSanzo is joining the company as the business unit’s general manager. […]

IBM announced it has acquired Node.js specialist StrongLoop, giving the systems, software and services giant a leg up on expertise in one of the fastest growing development frameworks for creating and delivering APIs. The move brings additional Node.js talent into IBM as the company sets its sights on the enterprise Node.js space. There are approximately […]

Intel today announced System Studio 2016, a major revision of its toolset for developers building applications for embedded systems and connected devices. The new release provides a comprehensive suite of tools to help system and embedded developers deliver more energy-efficient, higher-performing and smarter solutions for connected devices across a wide range of system and embedded […]