Darryl K. Taft

IBM announced results of a global study that showed that 80 percent of enterprises are forming new partnerships with emerging groups such as citizen developers to close the skills gap for application development. The study entitled “Raising the Game: The IBM Business Tech Trends Report,” was conducted by the IBM Center for Applied Insights and […]

Seven Subjects to Master to Drive Enterprise Channel Sales by Darryl K. Taft Consumer Behavior: Have Good Content and Tools Don’t have good content or effective sales tools in the channel? Then you can forget about generating leads and closing deals. People gravitate toward content that is relevant for them, so it’s important to write […]

A Look Back at Internet of Things’ Origin, Evolution By Darryl K. Taft Tim Berners-Lee In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web. Internet Toaster In 1990, John Romkey and Simon Hackett create the first connected device—a toaster powered by the Internet. ‘Internet of Things’ Coined In 1999, Kevin Ashton coins the term “Internet […]

Pivotal has announced Pivotal CF Mobile Services, an addition to the company’s Pivotal CF enterprise platform as a service (PaaS). Pivotal CF Mobile Services provide a set of advanced mobile capabilities that work with previously announced data services to enable developer self-service productivity and operational efficiency required to build and deploy next-generation applications faster. According […]

Microsoft announced the availability of its Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio, an extension that brings together the Visual Studio Sample Browser and Bing Code Search extensions to enable developers to find and reuse millions of code snippets. The extension also enables users to find and reuse code sample projects from across the coding community, […]

Kony, a provider of enterprise mobility solutions, announced the release of the Kony MobileFabric, an application development platform that can help accelerate app building by up to 50 percent, the company said. Kony MobileFabric combines a mobile application development platform (MADP), mobile back end as a service (MBaaS), application programming interface (API) management and platform-as-a-service […]

A full 45 percent of large enterprises struggle to produce mobile apps, according to the Apigee Institute, a unit of Apigee Corp., a provider of analytics and management technology for cloud services and APIs. In its report, “Lessons from the App Masters: How Some IT Departments Excel at Delivering Quality Apps,” Apigee explains that while […]

Debunking 8 Myths of Mobile App Development by Darryl K. Taft Myth 1: Enterprise Mobile Solutions Are Difficult to Use Many developers assume that enterprise-grade mobile solution platforms are bulky, difficult to use and don’t provide the desired agile app development for enterprise apps. Technology has come a long way in a short amount of […]

IBM’s Corporate Service Corps (CSC) is teaming up with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to help save the Amazon rainforest. According to IBM, TNC says no other place is more critical to the survival of the human race than the Amazon rainforest. In a post on the Smarter Planet blog, IBM writer Steve Hamm said the […]

IBM, Florida Polytechnic University and Flagship Solutions Group, announced the opening of a new supercomputing center at the university composed of IBM high performance systems, software and cloud-based storage, to help educate students in emerging technology fields. The center, which is being developed with the support of premier IBM business partner Flagship Solutions, will house […]