Darryl K. Taft

Why Companies Get DevOps and Continuous Delivery Wrong We examine mistakes companies make in their DevOps practices and offer tips for testing, tool selection and information sharing to help fix some of these problems. Compromising Speed Over Quality In DevOps, it is often the mentality that everything has to happen as quickly as possible. This […]

IBM is continuing with its strategy to build out its cloud ecosystem by striking deals with industry leading partners such as Workday. Big Blue on Aug. 15 announced a multi-year partnership with human capital management (HCM) software provider Workday to serve as the foundation of Workday’s development and test environment. Moving its development and test […]

CA Technologies, which focuses on helping enterprises transform for the application economy, has delved into the DevOps and Agile development spaces with product and services support. The company also has amassed some serious microservices expertise with its API Academy, as it works to help empower developers to more easily build software, perhaps even leading to […]

Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) provider Built.io this week announced Built.io Backend 3.0, the latest release of its platform, which provides developers with a customizable environment for building mobile applications. The new release’s pluggable architecture enables developers to integrate custom business logic into the Built.io platform’s code base. By introducing support for custom code, […]

5 Common Mistakes Companies Make in Their Mobile Policies When creating a formal enterprise mobility policy, beware of these five common pitfalls to ensure the policy is beneficial to both the business and employees. Rolling Out a Policy Without First Understanding the Business Impact Whether it’s to help maintain work efficiencies, reduce roaming overages or […]

IBM announced that it has joined forces with Mapbox to bring geospatial analysis or mapping to business users. Together, the companies are integrating the Mapbox scalable vector graphics-based maps with IBM’s Watson Analytics and Cognos Analytics. Mapbox offers an open-source mapping platform for custom designed maps. The company’s APIs and SDKs are the building blocks […]

In June, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire LinkedIn, the business-oriented social networking service, for $26 billion. LinkedIn, which boasts a stable of talented engineers across a spectrum of disciplines—including cloud infrastructure, mobile and web technologies, has had a history of open-sourcing some of its core technology to the benefit of the community. LinkedIn’s Kafka […]

IBM has extended its focus on India with a new multi-million dollar five-year agreement with Vodafone India to manage the company’s IT infrastructure and provide support for its applications environment. Under the deal, an expansion of IBM’s relationship with Vodafone India, IBM will launch a new hybrid cloud platform to help the company provide quality […]

5 Ways Pegasystems Is Helping to Digitally Transform Companies As digital changes the way companies approach customer service, marketing and sales engagement, some are innovating more than others. Here are some examples. British Gas Serving around 11 million homes, British Gas is the largest energy and services provider in the UK—yet, its marketing strategy wasn’t […]

LinkedIn continues to open-source core technologies to help developers and IT staff better build and manage applications, this week delivering two Android-based tools to the community. The first is Shaky, an Android shake-for-feedback library that enables Android device users to shake their phones to report bugs in features and applications. In the past year, LinkedIn […]

IBM research scientists have advanced the company’s effort to extend cognitive computing with a breakthrough that could lead to the development of neuromorphic computers. Neuromorphic computing, or brain-inspired computing, is the use of computing technology built to perform like the neuro-biological architectures in the human nervous system. A team of scientists at IBM Research in […]

IBM this week announced the creation of X-Force Red, a new elite security testing team made up of hundreds of security professionals based in dozens of locations around the world. The new team will conduct penetration tests to try to uncover security vulnerabilities for IBM clients. Charles Henderson, a penetration testing expert and security professional […]