Darryl K. Taft

Zend Technologies, a provider of software development tools for PHP developers, has announced the availability of Z-Ray for Magento, a PHP debugging and productivity tool for real-time visibility into Magento applications. Zend said its Z-Ray tool provides in-context visibility inside Magento applications, showing exactly what happens when constructing each page. Z-Ray, included within Zend Server […]

IBM announced a new cloud-based analytics platform for energy and utility companies designed to improve decision-making throughout the entire energy ecosystem. Known as IBM Insights Foundation for Energy, the new platform provides users with a 360-degree view, from the individual transformer level to the entire grid. Delivered via IBM’s SoftLayer cloud infrastructure, the platform couples […]

Microsoft is taking more steps toward open sourcing, making its .NET core runtime repository available on GitHub. The company also announced its 2015 virtual online conference for .NET developers. The moves follow Microsoft’s announced plans to open-source the .NET Core server stack and take the technology cross-platform to Linux and Mac OS. Microsoft made this […]

BlazeMeter introduced a new continuous testing- as- a- service platform, which is designed to help development teams shorten release cycles. The company joined forces with Sauce Labs to deliver the new platform, which enables developers to create and run tests and integrate testing into the existing development environment. As software increases in complexity, the number […]

Microsoft recently announced a slew of enhancements to its Azure cloud platform to improve business productivity and security across SQL Server, Enterprise Mobility and Azure Media Services. The company launched new updates and features for SQL Server workloads on Azure, including more simplified availability, setup, backup and patching for SQL Server in an Azure virtual […]

Secure Decisions, a provider of a suite of tools for software developers and security analysts, has released a new version of its Code Dx software assurance solution. The new release, Code Dx 1.6, features integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse, as well as Git and Jenkins, enabling developers to more effectively identify, report and […]

Microsoft is making privacy and security of the Internet of things (IoT) a priority. In a blog post on Data Privacy Day, Clemens Vasters, principal architect of Microsoft Azure IoT, spelled out some of Microsoft’s views on IoT security and privacy to help consumers and enterprises manage some of the risks involved with emerging technologies. […]

Responding to the growing demand for real-time data, VoltDB announced Version 5.0 of its in-memory, scale-out operational database. The new release delivers increased support for the Hadoop ecosystem, expanded SQL support and a new management center. VoltDB 5.0 enables users to more easily create and manage fast data applications. With the Internet of Things driving […]

Lance Crosby, founder and CEO of IBM’s SoftLayer unit, has resigned from IBM. SoftLayer COO Francisco Romero announced the news internally on January 23. Sources close to the situation said Crosby decided now was a good time to step away, as IBM has reorganized with a newly- formed IBM Cloud group headed by Big Blue […]

Results of a new survey indicate that the Apache Spark big data processing engine is gaining traction with a growing number of developers. Typesafe, the company behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, has released the findings of a survey of more than 2,100 enterprise developers, data scientists, executives and system architects, analyzing adoption patterns of […]

How DevOps Helps Grease the Gears of the Application Economy by Darryl K. Taft Applications Needed In the app economy, it is applications that define the customer experience. High Expectations More than nine out of 10 executives face increased pressure to release apps more quickly. Increased Deployments DevOps enables enterprises to increase the pace and […]

Microsoft reported revenue of $26.5 billion for the second quarter of its 2015 fiscal year, driven largely by momentum in cloud and devices. Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue grew 114 percent, driven by Office 365, Azure and Dynamic CRM Online, and is now on an annualized revenue run rate of $5.5 billion. This is the sixth […]