Darryl K. Taft

IBM and Genesys, a provider of customer experience and contact center solutions, have entered into a partnership to empower smarter customer experiences. Genesys will tap the IBM Watson cognitive computing system to transform the way brands engage clients across customer service, marketing and sales through data-driven insights and automated actions. As part of the agreement, […]

HP Autonomy’s IDOL OnDemand APIs Nurture Apps Ecosystem by Darryl K. Taft Developers Can Access Catalog of IDOL OnDemand APIs With free access to a “try and see” explorer available at IDOLonDemand.com, developers have access to a growing catalog of RESTful APIs based on HP IDOL, including format conversion, text analysis, text search and image […]

Continuous delivery solutions provider CloudBees and Perfecto Mobile, provider of the MobileCloud Platform and integrated mobile application quality suite, have teamed up to deliver continuous integration to mobile developers. The partnership enables CloudBees users to use the real mobile devices in the Perfecto Mobile MobileCloud for cross-platform functional and performance testing and real-time monitoring of […]

ZeroTurnaround, a provider of software developer productivity tools, announced the release of its new tool, XRebel, an interactive Java profiler. XRebel enables developers to easily find and fix common problems as they code, giving them an edge to develop higher quality software faster. XRebel provides real-time alerts to potential issues. ZeroTurnaround hopes to have another […]

IBM announced it is opening new SoftLayer-based cloud data centers specifically for federal government workloads. The new data centers will feature IBM’s SoftLayer infrastructure designed to provide greater control and security of data for the U.S. federal government. Moreover, through the new centers and development programs, IBM said it also is opening the market for […]

IBM’s SoftLayer announced the release of Direct Link, a service that enables customers to establish a dedicated network connection from their own IT infrastructure to the SoftLayer private network and cloud services. Direct Link consists of a physical, dedicated network connection from a customer’s data center, office or co-location facility to SoftLayer’s data centers and […]

To enhance its expertise in Node.js, Progress acquired Modulus, provider of a platform as a service (PaaS) for hosting, deploying, scaling and monitoring data-intensive, real-time applications using Node.js and MongoDB. The Modulus Node.js and MongoDB cloud platform allows users to create real-time mobile, software-as-a-service (SaaS), social and big data apps that run across distributed devices […]

Pivotal has updated its Cloud Foundry-powered Platform as a Service (PaaS), Pivotal CF, with new enterprise features. At the Cloud Foundry Summit in San Francisco today, Pivotal introduced new enterprise-grade capabilities for Pivotal CF, including the ability to automatically deploy applications into dual availability zones to build in redundancy across clouds; enhanced dashboards for real-time […]

IBM Walks Through Its Software Development History by Darryl K. Taft IBM’s Software Development Transformation IBM has gone from the rigid patterns of the waterfall methodology to the fluid, flexible world of Agile development and continuous delivery to speed up software lifecycles. Development Guidance Principles The goal is to focus on tools not rules, support […]

NEW YORK–Act-On Software, a marketing automation software provider for small and midsize companies, demonstrated why it is considered a leader in its space at its #iheartmarketing user conference here featuring hundreds of the company’s users. At the June 6 event, a regional conference for the company’s East Coast customers, users called out Act-On’s ease of […]

Sencha, a provider of HTML5 development tools for desktop and mobile applications, announced an upgrade to Ext JS, its flagship development platform for building cross-browser applications. Ext JS 5 enables developers to build or move desktop apps to mobile devices with little to no modification to the existing code base and within the same development […]

Microsoft has released the first community technology preview (CTP) of the next major version of Visual Studio, codenamed Visual Studio 14. The company is maintaining its commitment to a faster cadence of Visual Studio releases with the release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 last month and the release of the first CTP of Visual […]