Darryl K. Taft

SAN DIEGO — IBM announced new design and analytics capabilities as part of IBM marketing cloud to enable brands to address the rising complexity marketers face engaging with customers as individuals. Announced at the IBM Amplify 2015 conference here, these new capabilities from IBM enable marketers to collaborate, design and deliver customer experiences with a […]

IBM has announced several new services, including a .NET Runtime, on its Bluemix Platform as a Service (PaaS). Announced at the Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., the new services will make it easier for developers to create cloud applications for mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), supply chain analytics and intelligent infrastructure solutions. They […]

IBM announced a series of new servers, software and solutions to help enterprises create hybrid cloud environments. At its IBM Edge 2015 conference in Las Vegas, IBM announced new servers and storage software and solutions designed for cloud computing. IBM also introduced flexible software licensing of its middleware to help clients speed up their adoption […]

IBM today introduced Watson Analytics Professional, a new edition that gives users more business-centric capabilities, such as a collaboration function that lets multiple people work simultaneously in a single Watson Analytics dataset. Also, the new edition supports IBM dbDash, IBM DB2 databases, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API connectors for SQL databases, IBM SQL Database for […]

IBM and Ionic announced an agreement to combine the drag and drop design capabilities of Ionic with the IBM MobileFirst Platform. Ionic’s design capabilities are targeted at business users who want to prototype enterprise-ready apps in minutes — with no prior programming knowledge or coding experience — and benefit from open-source technology to further accelerate […]

Teradata has announced enhancements to its database to help organizations achieve extreme query performance for operational and analytical workloads. The company’s tweaks to the Teradata Database’s hybrid row and column capabilities provide quicker access to data stored on columnar tables, which drive faster query performance for more agile business decisions. “Teradata developed the industry’s first […]

Texts From Mom: IT Pros Pay Homage to Their Mothers by Darryl K. Taft Patience Is a Virtue As you know, one of the key traits of an IT pro is patience, as sometimes it can take awhile to sort through the nature of an IT problem, and also walking the user through the diagnostic […]

IBM has rolled out new hybrid cloud capabilities for its Watson cognitive computing system to help organizations bridge enterprise data with Web-based cloud applications for faster and more insightful data intelligence. By integrating IBM Cloud capabilities for hybrid cloud, users will be able to gain faster intelligence from data across multiple secure traditional and cloud […]

Telerik this week announced that its Kendo UI user interface framework now comes fully equipped with Microsoft Office 365. Building on this news, Telerik said Microsoft will now offer free Kendo UI licensing to its Office 365 developer program customers. Over the years, Telerik has continually advanced its solutions to support all new Microsoft releases—often […]

IBM announced a major expansion of the ecosystem for its Watson cognitive computing technology. At an event yesterday in New York City, Big Blue announced new commercial partnerships and cognitive computing apps and services to advance the adoption of Watson technologies. IBM also announced new partner-led client engagements to apply the power of Watson to […]