Darryl K. Taft

IBM has teamed up with Facebook to help marketers change how they interact with consumers and improve consumers’ overall experience with brands both on social networks, on their mobile devices, or even in-store. Facebook and IBM Commerce today announced that they will collaborate to provide the world’s leading brands with tailored marketing capabilities that reach […]

Neo Technology, creator of the Neo4j graph database, has launched a new global partner program aimed at system integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The program is designed to boost awareness of graph databases, while building a solid community of expert partners able to meet burgeoning business demands for graph databases. […]

IBM and SAP tightened up their existing technology partnership with a new set of integrated Power Systems solutions designed to help clients process volumes of data at high speed for both transactional and analytics workloads. IBM tested the systems with customers during a trial period last year and today announced a series of Power Systems […]

IBM, Apple and Japan Post Group recently announced an initiative to help senior citizens better deal with everyday issues and connect with health care providers and the wider world via technology. The first-of-its-kind program will deliver Apple iPads with customized apps to senior citizens to keep seniors engaged and connected with health care providers and […]

How Mobile-Device Sharing Helps Budget-Conscious Companies by Darryl K. Taft Education A shared-device model works well in the education industry. For example, a school with 600 students may only need to buy 200 to 300 tablets. In fact, a recent study of more than 2,000 students conducted by education company Pearson found that 48 percent […]

Five Tips for Building a Database That Meets Your E-Discovery Needs by Darryl K. Taft Identify Goals First and foremost, identify the goal of the database, which typically includes document review and receiving other documents for potential review. Goal setting impacts every step of the database building process, so it’s crucial. Then, set the standards […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft’s Build conference is always a major developer fest where the company unveils all kinds of neat new tools and services, but in the words of one company evangelist, this year Microsoft has outdone itself. Indeed, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC), .NET Framework 4.6, Team Foundation Server 2015 RC, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Taking a cue from one of its new themes of building bridges for developers, Microsoft is opening up Visual Studio to enable iOS and Android developers to repurpose and build apps for the Windows Store. The new scheme involves new technology including Microsoft-built Objective-C SDK for iOS developers as well as a POSIX-based subsystem […]

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. […]