Darryl K. Taft

Cloud9, a provider of a cloud-based software development environment, published results of a survey of developers using cloud-based tools that found that the majority of them are committed to working in the cloud. As part of its research into how developers use cloud-based tools, Cloud9 surveyed 1,200 developers that use its platform and found that […]

Microsoft recently announced a preview of RemoteIE, a free service that enables users to run the latest version of Internet Explorer on the Windows 10 Technical Preview from Windows, Mac OS X, iOS or Android devices. Available via Azure RemoteApp, RemoteIE lets you run IE on these different operating environments without the need to run […]

Microsoft and Dropbox announced a partnership to integrate their services for collaboration across Dropbox and Microsoft Office on phones, tablets, and the web. With these integrated capabilities Dropbox and Office users will be able to access Dropbox from Office apps to get to their files and folders faster, edit Office files directly from Dropbox and […]

10 Reasons to Hire a Managed Hosting Service Provider by Darryl K. Taft No Downtime With a managed hosting service provider, you will experience fewer service-impacting outages. Cost Savings Managed hosting eliminates the need to purchase hardware or software. Incremental Staff Increase Managed hosting gives you access to additional, experienced staff. Improved Network Performance Managed […]

Rackspace Survey Spotlights DevOps Business Benefits: Top 6 Findings by Darryl K. Taft DevOps Adoption Is on an Upswing, but the U.K. Lags Despite DevOps having had a relatively short life so far, more than half of respondents’ organizations (55%) have already implemented DevOps practices or approaches, and a further 31% are planning to do […]

IBM and Repsol S.A., a Spanish integrated oil and gas company, recently announced a new research collaboration to leverage cognitive technologies that will help transform the oil and gas industry. IBM and Repsol are jointly developing two prototype cognitive applications designed to augment Repsol’s strategic decision making in the optimization of oil reservoir production and […]

LAS VEGAS—IBM has announced new high-speed analysis and criminal investigation software designed to uncover hidden criminal threats buried deep inside massive volumes of disparate corporate data. The software, IBM i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis (EIA), can find non-obvious relationships masked within hundreds of terabytes of data and trillions of objects in just seconds, IBM said. By […]

LAS VEGAS–IBM this week launched a new generation of data services on the IBM Cloud that are designed to ensure more trusted information can be applied more readily across an organization. The new cloud-based services will enable organizations to simplify and automate the ability to find, refine and prepare data; warehouse data in the cloud, […]

LAS VEGAS—Ever wonder what a business could do with all that data generated on Twitter every day? IBM sure has, which is why Big Blue has teamed up with Twitter to make it easy for businesses to integrate this data to accelerate product and service development by predicting long-term trends, respond to shifts in preferences […]

Amazon Buy Box: The Internet’s $80 Billion Sales Button by Darryl K. Taft What Is the Amazon Buy Box? The Amazon Buy Box is the little orange or white button with the words “Add to Cart” on the right-hand side of every product page on Amazon. When clicking this button, you agree to buy an […]