Darryl K. Taft

Google announced it has updated its cloud platform to make handling big data in the cloud much easier for the everyday programmer or data analyst. The announcement includes a series of new services and improvements to existing ones, including a beta release of Google Cloud Dataflow and key enhancements to Google BigQuery. Over the last […]

Zend, a provider of PHP development solutions, and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership aimed at transforming developer productivity in the cloud starting with a joint integrated offering of Zend’s transformative Z-Ray technology with Microsoft’s Azure App Service. Zend Technologies’ Z-Ray is an innovative new technology that gives developers deep insight into how their code is […]

How Immersion’s Haptic Technology Is Bringing More Value to Wearables by Darryl K. Taft Bringing Human Understanding to Touch Technology The Instinctive Alerts Framework is a guidance for designing wearable devices that use tactile effects to communicate to users, without requiring additional audio or visual context. The framework provides an organized approach for designing tactile […]

npm Inc., the company that hosts and manages npm, a popular package manager for JavaScript, announced that it has raised $8 million for a Series A round of funding and also has launched a new feature known as Private Modules. The series was led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), an investor in developer-facing businesses, and […]

Why BYOD Practices Might Not Be Right for Every Company by Darryl K. Taft Security A major benefit of smartphones is that they are designed to retrieve and share data in the cloud. From a security standpoint, especially in sensitive environments, such as hospitals, this increases the potential for unauthorized data access and duplication. Because […]

IBM announced the launch of its new Watson Health Cloud to provide a secure and open platform for physicians, researchers, insurers and companies focused on health and wellness solutions. IBM has been promoting its Watson cognitive computing system to advance the quality and effectiveness of personal health care. Big Blue’s new HIPAA-compliant (Health Insurance Portability […]

Adding some detail to its plan to invest $3 billion over the next four years to establish a new Internet of Things (IoT) unit, IBM announced new software and services to enable an ecosystem of partners and customers to build and manage the connected products and systems at the heart of the IoT. At the […]

IBM announced that the U.S. Army is using the IBM Cloud to power one of the biggest logistics systems in the U.S. federal government. The Logistics Support Activity—known as LOGSA—provides on-time integrated logistics support of Army operations worldwide that impacts every soldier, every day. Since migrating to a hybrid cloud model with IBM in 2014, […]

SmartBear Software released a plug-in of its TestComplete automated testing solution for the Jenkins open-source continuous integration platform. The new TestComplete Jenkins plug-in helps simplify and streamline the continuous delivery process by making it easy for users to automatically execute and report on TestComplete tests through Jenkins. Users deploying the new TestComplete Jenkins plug-in are […]

Five Things You Didn’t Know GIS Could Do by Darryl K. Taft Fuel Your Coffee Fix Notice a new Starbucks on your block? It wasn’t placed there randomly. The company uses a market planning and store development application powered by GIS called Atlas that helps it grow in a sustainable way. Using Atlas, Starbucks is […]