Darryl K. Taft

ORLANDO, Fla.—Dynatrace, formerly known as Compuware APM, a provider of application performance management (APM) solutions, this week announced a new release of Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring. The new release, formerly known as Compuware APMaaS Synthetic, is powered by the company’s new analytics engine. Rather than simply presenting raw data, the new analytics engine empowers IT teams […]

Inside IBM’s Watson Headquarters in NYC’s Silicon Alley by Darryl K. Taft IBM Opens Global Watson Headquarters in NYC On Oct. 8 in New York City, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty and Senior Vice President Mike Rhodin opened IBM’s new global Watson headquarters at 51 Astor Place in Silicon Alley, the home for next-generation computing systems […]

As IBM moves its Watson cognitive computing technology into its new home in New York City’s Silicon Alley, the company announced significant milestones fueling adoption of Watson and cognitive computing cloud capabilities on a global scale. IBM describes Watson as a groundbreaking platform that represents a new era of computing based on its ability to […]

ORLANDO, Fla.–Progress Software predicts the end is nigh for the “Application Ice Age,” as technology has now reached a tipping point and currently belongs to anyone and everyone. Indeed, at its Progress Exchange 2014 conference here, Progress officials said the underlying technology behind everyday apps has become ubiquitous and as a result, everyone is becoming […]

This week at Adobe MAX: The Creativity Conference, Adobe announced a new family of mobile apps and enhanced Creative Cloud (CC) desktop tools that enable creative professional to access, use and create apps from anywhere. At Adobe MAX 2014, Adobe announced a milestone release of Creative Cloud that transforms how creatives work across desktops and […]

A year after bringing the in-memory database software DB2 with BLU Acceleration to market, IBM has enhanced the technology to make it simpler, more economical and faster to analyze massive amounts of data—even if the data resides in a transactional system rather than a data warehouse. IBM said its new DB2 capabilities deliver analytics at […]

Lenovo-IBM Deal Includes M5 Servers for Mission-Critical Apps by Darryl K. Taft New M5 x86 Servers IBM’s new M5 servers combine high performance with built-in security, efficiency and reliability, and support a wide range of enterprise workloads and computing environments. The portfolio includes highly configurable models of rack and tower servers. System x3650 M5 Optimized […]

FP Complete, a provider of commercial Haskell software tools and services, announced it is moving to an open publish model for their integrated development environment (IDE) for the Haskell programming language. FP Complete’s Haskell development platform, the FP Haskell Center (FPHC), eliminates barriers to learning and developing in Haskell. It provides a Web-based IDE that […]

SkyWave Mobile Communications, a provider of wireless data communications for the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market, announced it has added a new Eclipse-based tool to its application software development environment. The company’s software toolkit now includes an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) for creating applications that run inside SkyWave satellite and cellular devices. Eclipse is an open-source […]

Eight Key Open-Source Internet of Things Projects by Darryl K. Taft Node-RED: Visual Tool for IoT Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services. Node-RED provides a browser-based flow editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide-range nodes in the palette. Flows can then be deployed […]