Darryl K. Taft

IBM continued on its course of trying to move to higher-value business as its sales in more traditional sectors continue to drop. On its third-quarter earnings call, IBM spoke in terms of “continuing operations,” meaning operations of the parts of the company not being divested. Third-quarter net income from continuing operations was $3.5 billion, compared […]

Eight Ways to Test a Site’s Holiday Shopping Readiness by Darryl K. Taft Begin Testing Early Holiday promotions are fiercely competitive, so it’s little surprise that many retailers plan all seasonal activities in advance. To ensure you’re delivering an optimal user experience, consider testing the promotional campaigns you plan to run as early as October […]

The recent Strata + Hadoop World 2014 conference brought out the luminaries of the big data world, with several announcements around Apache Hadoop and other key big data- and analytics-related technologies. Business intelligence software provider Tableau Software made a splash by announcing expanded support for Hadoop technologies with new partners including IBM and Amazon Web […]

Microsoft plans to update developers on its latest tools and platforms at an invitation-only event next month in New York City known as Connect();. Visual Studio and the next version of the Microsoft developer toolset will be the centerpiece of the event, which will be held Nov. 12 and will be webcast live. A second […]

IBM landed its biggest cloud deal to date, partnering with SAP to provide cloud infrastructure to the enterprise software provider and leveraging IBM’s $1.2 billion investment to expand its global cloud footprint in every major market. Both companies come up winners in the partnership, as SAP selected IBM as a premier strategic provider of cloud […]

A week after opening its new Watson headquarters in New York City, IBM has announced the first commercial application of its Watson cognitive computing system in Africa—a health care system. IBM and Metropolitan Health are working on a new system to enhance and personalize health services in South Africa and drive outcomes-based services to citizens […]

IBM announced that it has extended its Bluemix platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology to help developers build applications for the Internet of things (IoT). Big Blue unveiled a set of digital tools that change the Internet of things landscape by enabling developers to build an IoT application in just a few minutes. The cloud service was developed […]

Five Innovative Apps Built on IBM’s Bluemix PaaS by Darryl K. Taft Vaadin Java Dev Tool Designed for creating rich, interactive applications that run in a Web browser without any plug-ins, Vaadin is a Java developer tool that is utilized everywhere from maritime to space applications, open-source projects to internal business applications and single-day prototypes […]

MongoDB announced a bunch of enhancements to MongoDB Management Service (MMS), its cloud service for managing the MongoDB database ecosystem. MMS dramatically simplifies operations for MongoDB deployments of any size, reducing operational overhead by 95 percent for many operations, the company said. MMS enables users to deploy and manage MongoDB at scale with the click […]

Mobile development platform provider Xamarin recently announced a partnership with IBM that expands Xamarin’s enterprise mobile developer ecosystem. Under the new agreement, Xamarin is teaming up with IBM to support Big Blue’s MobileFirst platform to enable Xamarin developers to build multi-device enterprise apps. With this move, Xamarin is simplifying the development of native mobile apps […]