Darryl K. Taft

Lance Crosby, founder and CEO of IBM’s SoftLayer unit, has resigned from IBM. SoftLayer COO Francisco Romero announced the news internally on January 23. Sources close to the situation said Crosby decided now was a good time to step away, as IBM has reorganized with a newly- formed IBM Cloud group headed by Big Blue […]

Results of a new survey indicate that the Apache Spark big data processing engine is gaining traction with a growing number of developers. Typesafe, the company behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, has released the findings of a survey of more than 2,100 enterprise developers, data scientists, executives and system architects, analyzing adoption patterns of […]

How DevOps Helps Grease the Gears of the Application Economy by Darryl K. Taft Applications Needed In the app economy, it is applications that define the customer experience. High Expectations More than nine out of 10 executives face increased pressure to release apps more quickly. Increased Deployments DevOps enables enterprises to increase the pace and […]

Microsoft reported revenue of $26.5 billion for the second quarter of its 2015 fiscal year, driven largely by momentum in cloud and devices. Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue grew 114 percent, driven by Office 365, Azure and Dynamic CRM Online, and is now on an annualized revenue run rate of $5.5 billion. This is the sixth […]

With Windows 10, Microsoft is opening a new page for Windows users and a vast set of opportunities for developers. In short, Windows 10 offers Microsoft’s boldest attempt to deliver what the company has been working toward and what developers have long been looking for: one platform upon which to develop apps for phones, PCs, […]

A major gap exists between how CEOs and lower-level managers view big data, according to the findings of a new study sponsored by big data and marketing applications specialist Teradata. The study indicated that CEOs tend to look at big data through rose-colored glasses while lower-level managers appear to have different expectations. The study showed […]

Eight Key Apps in BlackBerry’s Enterprise ISV Reseller Program by Darryl K. Taft GSX Monitor & Analyzer for BlackBerry GSX Monitor & Analyzer for BlackBerry is an agentless, intuitive monitoring and reporting solution that enables administrators and IT managers to ensure the performance and availability of BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Microsoft Exchange, Lync, SharePoint and IBM […]

Compuware, a provider of mainframe software, announced it is providing day one support for IBM’s new z13 mainframe. In addition, Compuware said it will provide same-day support for related z/OS releases as well as z13 enablement of COBOL, Java and PL/1. Compuware worked with IBM to ensure that its Topaz, Strobe, File-AID, Abend-AID, Xpediter and […]

IBM is getting dead serious about the cloud. During Big Blue’s earnings Webcast on January 20, IBM senior vice president and chief financial officer, Martin Schroeter, made a statement that indicates just how serious IBM plans to be about the cloud going forward. In response to a question about the company’s acquisition strategy, Schroeter said […]

IBM reported fourth quarter earnings showing another drop in revenue – the 11th consecutive quarterly revenue decline for Big Blue. IBM announced total revenues of $24.1 billion, down 12 percent from the same quarter last year. Net income also was down. IBM had net income of $5.5 billion for the fourth quarter, down from $6.2 […]