Darryl K. Taft

In an effort to simplify the procurement and use of its flagship developer toolset in the enterprise, Microsoft has introduced new pricing and offerings for Visual Studio 2015, which will ship this summer. Mitra Azizirad, general manager of Developer Platform Marketing and Sales at Microsoft, in an interview with eWEEK, said Microsoft is combining Visual […]

IBM announced it will invest $3 billion over the next four years to establish a new Internet of Things (IoT) business unit. Big Blue also said it is building a cloud-based open platform to help customers and ecosystem partners build IoT solutions. The company also is creating new IBM IoT cloud services to drive insights […]

HP rolled out new software releases, including HP AppPulse Mobile, designed to help organizations more easily deliver high-quality mobile applications. The innovations harness HP’s existing assets in big data analytics, application lifecycle management, IT operations management and security to enable organizations to accelerate the delivery of every phase of the mobile app lifecycle, from creation […]

Microsoft recently launched its new Microsoft Azure for student developers offer, which gives students free access to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The Microsoft Azure for students offer is being administered through the company’s Imagine program. Through the program, Microsoft reaches out to student developers and holds an annual Imagine Cup competition awarding top student […]

Progress Software announced enhancements to its Telerik Kendo UI HTML5 and JavaScript UI framework, and its server wrappers for ASP.NET MVC, PHP and JavaServer Pages (JSP). The enhancements are aimed at addressing the growing need for responsive design elements in cross-platform and mobile application development. Telerik officials said the Kendo UI framework has responsiveness in […]

Top Five Barriers to Tech Adoption by Darryl K. Taft In With the Old, No Room for the New  IT pros cited the need to continue supporting old, legacy technologies as the fifth biggest barrier to new technology adoption (by weighted rank). Though there are a few potential underlying issues here, one of the most […]

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named database pioneer Michael Stonebraker the recipient of the 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices in modern database systems. Michael Stonebraker, Ph.D., co-founder and CTO of Tamr, helped bring relational database systems from concept to commercial success and set the research agenda […]

SmartBear Software, a provider of open-source API testing and development tools, has acquired the Swagger API open-source project from Reverb Technologies. Swagger is an API description format used by developers in modern programming languages and deployment environments to design and deliver APIs that fuel Internet of things (IoT), microservices and mobile applications in the connected […]

Microsoft has announced the release of Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio (NTVS 1.0). This marks the next major milestone for Microsoft’s NTVS open-source plug-in, enabling developers to use Visual Studio 2012/2013 as a Node.js tool for building fast, scalable applications using JavaScript. Developers using Node.js can develop for a host of different platforms, including […]

Six Challenges That Keep CIOs, Other IT Pros Up at Night by Darryl K. Taft Security Plans Aren’t Strict Enough The growing frequency of reported data breaches and the complexity of attack vectors have pushed security to the top of CIOs’ list of concerns. More than half of survey respondents (51 percent) believe security planning […]