Darryl K. Taft

IBM and GENCI, France’s high performance computing agency, today announced a collaboration aimed at speeding up the path to exascale computing—the ability of a computing system to perform at least 1 exaflop, or 1 billion billion calculations, in 1 second. The collaboration, planned to run for at least 18 months, will focus on preparing complex […]

Globant, a leading Latin American-based solution provider, announced Cognitive Computing Studio in an effort to take advantage of the rise in the use of cognitive computing systems as the ultimate solution to improve companies’ capacities. The Cognitive Computing Studio will develop products and services using both big data and Globant’s expertise in fields such as […]

NEW YORK – When it comes to mobile, the browser has been sidelined. Developers instead ought to focus on enhancing the in-app experience and making apps more compelling, as users are spending more time than ever on their mobile devices, according to a Yahoo executive. Simon Khalaf, senior vice president of Publishing Products at Yahoo, […]

NEW YORK—In its push to better prepare developers for the emerging mobile-first world, Yahoo held its Mobile Developer Conference here, where the company announced new functionality in its mobile developer tools to an audience of more than 500. This East Coast version of the conference follows Yahoo’s inaugural event held last February in San Francisco […]

The engineering team at Facebook is constantly tuning its systems and apps to run more smoothly and better suit users, particularly those on mobile devices. To that end the Facebook team set out to reduce the number of crashes in the Facebook iOS app to increase its reliability. “In the past, most of the crashes […]

Hortonworks, a provider of enterprise Hadoop solutions and services, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Onyara, the creator of and key contributor to Apache NiFi. A top-level open-source project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), Apache NiFi is an easy-to-use system to process and distribute data. The acquisition will make it easy for […]

Nokia and the Ellie Mae mortgage software company have tapped big data solutions from WANdisco and Talend to help deliver continuous availability, performance and scalability to their customers. WANdisco, a provider of continuous availability software for enterprises, recently announced that Nokia subsidiary Nokia Networks has expanded its use of WANdisco’s big data technology. Nokia Networks […]

Basho Technologies, the creator of the Riak database, recently announced that it is collaborating with Cisco Systems to deliver a framework enabling the Riak KV NoSQL database to run on Apache Mesos. Mesos is an open-source cluster manager that allows for resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks. The integration with Mesos automates […]

Top 10 Common Application Attacks to Avoid Based on information from IBM, eWEEK examines, in descending order, which app attacks tend to occur with the most frequency and severity. No. 10: Un-validated Redirects and Forwards In this vulnerability, attackers manipulate the URLs of trusted sites and use phishing techniques to redirect visitors to an unwanted […]

OutSystems, which provides a platform for rapid application delivery (RAD) of enterprise apps, announced the release of a new enterprise edition of its OutSystems Platform for SAP. OutSystems enables organizations to quickly and easily build end-to-end applications that make the most of their custom SAP implementation and that run across all devices and screens. The […]