Darryl K. Taft

IBM is bringing the power of its cloud platform and Bluemix platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to Silicon Alley—New York City’s tech sector—to help spur the city’s technology ecosystem. At a ceremony today in the city, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Digital.NYC, an online platform that will serve as a centralized hub for the city’s […]

Microsoft announced that customer adoption for Oracle software on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform is strong and continues to grow. The devices and services giant made the announcement at Oracle OpenWorld 2014, the venue where a year ago Microsoft and Oracle announced a partnership to run Oracle software on Microsoft Azure so that Oracle customers could […]

The Eclipse Foundation has delivered an open Internet of things (IoT) stack for Java developers. Announced at the JavaOne 2014 conference in San Francisco today, the Open IoT Stack for Java simplifies IoT development by enabling developers to reuse a core set of frameworks and services in their IoT solutions. The stack makes it easier […]

Citizen developers are not only changing the rules on developing software in enterprises today, they also are helping to improve productivity and data access for workers in the enterprise. In short, so-called citizen developers–developers equipped with easy-to-use cloud-based solutions–are changing the way work gets done, as workers no longer wait for overworked IT professionals to […]

IBM is using its MobileFirst technology to transform user experiences in a variety of situations from education to financial services. Big Blue announced it is working with Bancroft, a provider of specialized services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, to manage a new cloud-based educational program. In a new MobileFirst-based environment, educational staff and […]

As part of its effort to enhance its presence in the cloud, IBM this week announced a new cloud resiliency center and several new cloud-related wins in the marketplace. IBM, on Sept. 22 announced a new cloud resiliency center in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina, which provides business continuity capabilities in the cloud to […]

Xamarin, a provider of cross-platform mobile application development solutions, has released the Xamarin Test Cloud, the company’s mobile app quality service that enables developers to automatically test their apps throughout the development process. With the production launch of Xamarin Test Cloud, developers can test how their apps look, perform and behave on more than 1,000 […]

As users commonly look to their mobile devices for everything from shopping to closing deals with e-signatures, the need for more and more apps has increased exponentially. There has been a relentless rise in the use of mobile devices for everything from flight check-ins to viewing bank account statements and scanning social media updates. As […]

Adobe yesterday announced its acquisition of Aviary, a developer of mobile SDKs for the delivery of creative apps. The move, which comes ahead of Adobe’s MAX 2014 creative conference in early October, is aimed at accelerating Adobe Creative Cloud application development by enhancing the delivery of mobile apps that integrate with the company’s Creative Cloud. […]

Azul Systems, a provider of Java runtime solutions, today announced that its OpenJDK-based Zulu 8 offering is now freely available on Docker. Azul’s Zulu 8 is an open-source, tested, compatibility-verified and trusted binary distribution of the OpenJDK 8 platform. Azul has also made Zulu versions compliant with earlier Java SE 7 and Java SE 6 […]