Darryl K. Taft

At the EclipseCon 2015 conference this week, Microsoft made a series of moves to help Java developers working on the Microsoft platform. Microsoft released a Java SDK for Application Insights and tweaked Visual Studio Online for Java developers and the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse. As part of Microsoft’s commitment to making the app telemetry and […]

Five Requirements for Media Storage in a Web-Scale World by Darryl K. Taft Achieve Web Scale Enterprises must achieve Web scale that doesn’t compromise quality. Many traditional storage systems were simply not designed to handle the increasing format variety and object size brought on by advances in media technology. The increases in format density from […]

Zend Technologies released the roadmap for Zend Framework 3, the next generation of the company’s PHP-based application framework for Web and mobile applications. Zend officials said Zend Framework 3 will be available in the third quarter of this year. Zend Framework 3 offers a new design that takes advantage of the PHP language evolution, new […]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that the Groovy dynamic object-oriented programming language has been formally submitted to the Apache Incubator. The Apache Incubator is the entry path into ASF for projects and codebases that aspire to become part of the foundation’s efforts. All code donations from external organizations and existing external projects wishing to […]

Progress Software announced the beta availability of NativeScript, an open-source framework that enables developers to use JavaScript to build native mobile apps for all major mobile platforms, including iOS, Android and, in the future, Windows Universal. In a blog post on the new technology, Valentin Stoychev, NativeScript product manager in Progress’s Telerik division, said the […]

Seven Key Requirements to Replace Your NAS With Cloud Storage By Darryl K. Taft Cache Locally To counter the user expectation of LAN speed and not WAN speed, active data needs be cached locally while inactive data is stored in the cloud. Deduplication Caching data locally would consume quite a bit of bandwidth and take […]

The Eclipse Foundation announced new releases of two open-source Internet of things (IoT) projects based on the OASIS Message Queue Telemetry Transport or MQTT standard protocol. Eclipse announced the release of Eclipse Paho 1.1 and Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4, which both implement the client and broker for the OASIS MQTT standard. Both project releases continue the […]

IBM has acquired AlchemyAPI, a provider of scalable cognitive computing API services and deep learning technology. The acquisition, which IBM says will accelerate its development of next-generation cognitive computing applications, also will expand the Watson ecosystem. More than 40,000 developers have built applications on the AlchemyAPI platform to the IBM Watson developer community. Financial terms […]

Oracle announced on March 3 the release of Java Development Kit (JDK) 8, Update 40 (JDK 8u40), with several enhancements for Java developers. As the latest release of Oracle’s implementation of Java SE, JDK 8u40 brings improvements in Java performance, scalability and administration, making it easier for Java developers to innovate faster in a simple […]

Software development toolmaker SmartBear Software has created the SmartBear Developer Network (SDN). The new developer network is aimed at SmartBear’s community of users and partners to freely build integrations and plug-ins to further extend the functionality of the company’s software quality tools. SmartBear has already collaborated with several API product companies, including 3scale, Apiary, IBM, […]