Darryl K. Taft

How OpenPOWER Went From Zero to 80 in Its First Year by Darryl K. Taft Jan. 19: China Announces OpenPOWER Intentions Kicking off 2014, the OpenPOWER Foundation welcomed two Chinese organizations, the Suzhou PowerCore Technology Company and the Research Institute of Jiangsu Industrial Technology, to the community. Suzhou PowerCore announced its intent to license IBM’s […]

Apache Spark Is Creating a Buzz in Analytics, Data Processing Camps by Julia King Spark Loves Diversity Spark comes with a diverse set of libraries “out of the box,” making previously inaccessible processing models easy-to-use and providing a full suite of complementary tools, including a fully featured machine learning library (MLlib), a graph processing engine […]

The Internet of things (IoT) requires developers to view the world differently than they typically have. The key differentiator is connectivity. With potentially billions of devices connected over the Internet, developers must first look at the issue of connectivity before anything else. IDC defines the Internet of things as networks of uniquely identifiable endpoints (or […]

IBM recently released results of its new Automotive Global Study 2025, which shows that auto executives believe cars will increasingly become more personalized for drivers but fully autonomous vehicles or fully automated driving will not be commonplace by 2025. IBM released its study during the Automotive News World Congress, which ran Jan. 13 and 14 […]

Genuitec, a provider of tools for the Eclipse developer community, announced the general availability of MyEclipse 2015, which offers enhanced support for Web technologies and support for building modern mobile applications. My Eclipse 2015 features JavaScript code assist, multi-framework support including support for Angular JS, support for popular REST services, mobile application support, and back-end […]

Progress Software has launched a new version of its Telerik application development platform that makes mobile development simpler and faster for programmers. The Telerik Platform combines UI tools and cloud services to enable developers to build apps that run on all the popular operating systems and devices, the company said. Progress announced its intent to […]

Embarcadero Technologies announced results of a recent developer survey that shows businesses are shifting toward building applications for the Internet of things (IoT). According to results from Embarcadero’s Software for the Internet of Things Developer Survey, 2015 will be a big year for developing business solutions with integrated “Things”—such as industrial sensors, health monitors and […]

IBM announced the launch of the thirteenth generation of its mainframe, the z13, which Big Blue refers to as “the most sophisticated computer system ever built.” IBM said the z13 has been developed for the mobile and cloud worlds and is able to process more than 2.8 billion transactions per day. The system delivers scale […]

Transifex, a provider of a cloud-based localization automation platform, released the results of a survey that finds the role of localization increasingly important as companies expand to new markets. The Transifex State of Localization Benchmark Survey examined the approach to localization among global companies. The study showed that localization is especially useful for business moving […]

Once again, IBM received more patents than any other company in the world over the past year, and again Big Blue broke a record for the number of patents received in a year. IBM announced that it received a record 7,534 patents in 2014—marking the 22nd consecutive year that the company topped the annual list […]