Darryl K. Taft

How Technology From Classic TV, Movies Can Teach Lessons to Today’s IT By Darryl K. Taft Knight Rider: Mobility Self-driving cars are predicted to be coming soon to a dealership near you, with such companies as Google toiling away at autonomous, smart vehicles. But the most well-known self-driving car is a jet black Pontiac Firebird […]

Voting results for the fall 2014 Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC) are in, and Azul Systems has been re-elected to an open election seat. There were 13 seats open for election this year, eight ratified seats and five open election seats. Azul topped the list of elected candidates, having received the highest number […]

Four Roadblocks to Agile Adoption and How Enterprises Can Overcome Them by Darryl K. Taft Roadblock No. 1: Management Agile’s emphasis on self-governing teams affects managerial roles. Learning how to manage an autonomous team requires new/different skills. Managers no longer know what their specific role is in a more open/Agile enterprise and can feel powerless […]

NEW YORK–As Microsoft views developers as central to the new cloud-first, mobile-first world of computing, the software giant is hoping to become the premier provider of development tools for building any application on any platform. With that top of mind, Microsoft has decided to take its wildly popular .NET framework cross-platform to Linux and the […]

NEW YORK–Microsoft announced it is beefing up its support for DevOps in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Online. At the company’s Connect(); event here Nov. 12, Microsoft said it continues to invest in technologies and services to help organizations embrace a DevOps culture. Through DevOps practices, organizations can deliver value to customers quickly while gaining […]

Tapping into some of its hottest technology, including Watson and Bluemix, Big Blue launched a new IBM Global Entrepreneur Program for Cloud Startups, which will help startups and entrepreneurs harness the power of IBM Cloud. The program is aimed at helping startups find their way onto the cloud via IBM’s rich set of resources, including […]

IBM is predicting record mobile holiday shopping this year as consumers are expected to make more than half of all their Thanksgiving Day online shopping purchases via mobile devices. IBM released its predictions for the 2014 holiday shopping season based on billions of online and in-store transactions analyzed by the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark and […]

The latest global analysis from Synergy Research Group ranks IBM as the top hybrid and private cloud provider for the enterprise and positions the company among the top three providers in the cloud market for the third quarter of 2014. IBM also announced a series of global enterprise clients in industries, including telecommunications, publishing and […]

Tales From the Help Desk: Six Crazy Horror Stories By Darryl K. Taft My System Won’t Come On An end-user called the IT help desk to say his desktop computer wouldn’t turn on—during a power outage. Charge It Please When an end-user could not access his virtual private network at home, IT found out that […]

Tableau Software today reported record results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2014. The big data and business intelligence (BI) software provider surpassed $100 million in revenue for the first time last quarter. Tableau’s third-quarter revenue was $104.5 million, up 71 percent year over year. Moreover, license revenue was $69.8 million, up 66 percent […]