Darryl K. Taft

IBM announced a new agreement with Finnair, Finland’s largest airline, that will tap into IBM Cloud and Watson services to help the airline provide services like mobile on-flight services to its customers. The five-and-a-half year agreement will also transform Finnair’s current technology infrastructure into a flexible, hybrid cloud platform. Financial terms of the deal were […]

Adobe announced it is bringing new technology to Adobe Creative Cloud, including support for UltraHD (UHD), brilliant color technology improvements and new touch workflows. The company also said Adobe Primetime, one of eight solutions of Adobe Marketing Cloud, has extended its delivery and monetization capabilities for HTML5 video and offers new tools for pay-TV providers […]

Facebook announced it has expanded its Parse for IoT toolkit with new SDKs supporting additional platforms for Internet of things (IoT) app development. With this expansion of the Parse for IoT SDK line announced at Facebook’s F8 developer conference in March, developers can now build even more connected devices with Parse, using new dedicated SDKs […]

How Apache Spark Helped Eight Companies Grow Their Businesses Spark is a powerful processing engine powering millions of real-time apps every day. Here is how eight companies are using Spark to support their businesses. Spark Helps Shopify Make Wise Store Selections Shopify needed to understand what types of products its customers were selling in order […]

IBM has expanded its IoT Foundation—the company’s Internet of things platform—through an integration with ARM. Through this collaboration with ARM, IBM will provide out-of-the-box connectivity with ARM mbed-enabled devices to analytics services. This collaboration will enable organizations to access huge quantities of data from devices, such as industrial appliances, weather sensors and wearable monitoring devices, […]

Node.js specialist Nodejitsu announced it is transitioning its Node customer base to Progress Software’s Modulus, which also focuses on Node.js development and advancing the state of the server-side JavaScript environment. The transition comes several months after GoDaddy acquired Nodejitsu in February to help with the migration of GoDaddy’s systems to Node. “When we announced that […]

FLUSHING, N.Y.—Each year, IBM works to improve on its performance at the US Open tennis tournament—this year by adding new and enhanced analytics, social, mobile, big data and cloud capabilities to bring a unique user experience to fans both onsite and around the world. For more than 20 years, IBM has collaborated with the United […]

Compose, IBM’s database-as-a-service (DBaaS) unit, today announced the availability of its RethinkDB database as a hosted service offering. The production-ready hosted RethinkDB offering is optimized for modern Web and mobile app development, where developers seek a solution that provides flexible, cost-effective scalability for building real-time Web apps and mobile solutions. RethinkDB is an open-source, scalable […]

Embarcadero Technologies, an application and database development toolmaker, announced it is helping millions of C++ and Delphi developers to move to Windows 10 with the latest release of its rapid application development (RAD) tool. The company’s new Embarcadero RAD Studio 10 Seattle not only targets developers building Windows 10 applications, but also those building OS […]

Apache Spark has been called a game changer and perhaps the most significant open source project of the next decade, and it’s been taking the big data world by storm since it was open sourced in 2010. Apache Spark is an open source data processing engine built for speed, ease of use and sophisticated analytics. […]