Darryl K. Taft

10 Industries That Are Making the Most of Big Data by Darryl K. Taft Digital Filmmaking Throughout the digital filmmaking process—from dailies to final delivery—large or multiple high-resolution files (a full-length feature film often reaches 90GB to 300GB) need to be transferred. It could theoretically take days to send via standard FTP, but the reality […]

Seven Ways the Solr Search Platform Touches Our Daily Lives by Darryl K. Taft Shopping With Solr Effective search and recommendation functions are central to the success of any e-commerce site. Shoppers must be able to easily find the exact products they want to buy and return relevant and contextual results every time they search. […]

IBM announced it is bringing its cyber-threat analytics technology to the cloud. Big Blue is moving its IBM QRadar security intelligence technology to the cloud to help enterprises quickly prioritize threats. The new services are available to customers through a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, with optional IBM Security Managed Services to provide deeper expertise and […]

Five Important Steps Linux Job Seekers Should Take by Darryl K. Taft Build Out Your Skill Set The rise of open cloud platforms has contributed to the overall demand of Linux jobs, and hiring managers are searching for professionals with a core understanding of Linux as well as experience in emerging skills, including OpenStack and […]

IBM announced that its SoftLayer unit has opened a second cloud data center in the Netherlands, located in Almere, just outside Amsterdam. The Almere data center is securely connected by a private network to all SoftLayer data centers around the world. IBM Cloud operates SoftLayer facilities in North and South America, Asia, Australia and Europe, […]

Telecommunications services and cloud infrastructure provider CenturyLink acquired Orchestrate, a company that offers a managed database service for rapid application development. CenturyLink officials said the acquisition enhances the CenturyLink Cloud platform with new database-as-a-service (DBaaS) capabilities and adds Orchestrate’s experienced data services team to the company’s product development and technology organization. Terms of the deal […]

Google recently introduced a new open-source configuration language for generating JSON known as Jsonnet. Google quietly released Jsonnet a few months ago as a programming language for specifying data. The Jsonnet Website calls Jsonnet a data templating language. Jsonnet doesn’t just generate JSON: It is also an extension of JSON, said Dave Cunningham, a member […]

With a focus on its continued transformation, IBM saw revenue drop and net income rise slightly in its first quarter of 2015. Big Blue reported Q1 2015 earnings of $19.6 billion, down 12 percent from a year ago. Net income was $2.9 billion, up four percent from the same period a year ago. IBM experienced […]

Microsoft has closed its MS Open Tech subsidiary to bring the staff back into the Microsoft fold. In a blog post, Jean Paoli, president of MS Open Tech, said Microsoft was subsuming his unit back into the company because it had completed its goal of bringing open source front and center at the parent company. […]

IBM’s 2015 Fellows Hail From Analytics, Cloud, Systems Camps by Darryl K. Taft Donna Dillenberger Donna Dillenberger works in IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., where she is the global leader of Enterprise Systems. Dillenberger has been at IBM for 27 years and has had a distinguished career of contributions to System z products—the mainstays […]

‘Game of Thrones’ Offers Strategy Model for Enterprise Mobility World by Darryl K. Taft Kingdom 1: Security Ninety percent of companies deploy passcode enforcement, which is the most common device-level policy. People need to share, store, sync and secure data on any device, anywhere. In order to conquer this first kingdom, IT professionals must move […]

Nine Apps That Put BitTorrent File-Sharing Protocol to Work by Darryl K. Taft Amazon: Distributing at High Scale Amazon S3 developers have the ability to retrieve any publicly accessible object via the BitTorrent protocol; this saves on costs when needing to distribute content at high scale. The costs of client/server distribution increase linearly as the […]