Darryl K. Taft

IBM announced a chip with brain-inspired non-von Neumann computer architecture that has one million neurons and 256 million synapses. The chip, known as Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics, or SyNAPSE, is built on Samsung’s 28nm process technology that has a dense on-chip memory and low-leakage transistors. IBM said it is the first neurosynaptic […]

VoltDB announced that running its NewSQL in-memory database on IBM’s SoftLayer cloud infrastructure can deliver up to five times faster application performance than on Amazon Web Services. Running VoltDB on SoftLayer, enterprises are able to extract intelligence and perform analytics on vast volumes of fast moving data to make real-time, automated decisions and create competitive […]

IBM announced new consulting services, known as IBM Global Business Services Online, that provide customers with direct access to analytics assessments and other click-to-buy services. The new services, part of IBM’s social business strategy and digital portfolio, provide customers with immediate access to IBM’s analytics capabilities and expertise. IBM is promoting the services through a […]

Eight Reasons to Use Microsoft SQL Server 2014’s In-Memory Technology by Darryl K. Taft In-Memory Technologies That Are Workload-Optimized SQL Server 2014’s in-memory technologies are specifically tuned for each workload—transaction processing, data warehousing, or analytics and business intelligence. For example, customers such as CJ E&M are achieving 35x transaction performance gains with in-memory OLTP; customers […]

Splunk, provider of a software platform for real-time operational intelligence has upped its cloud game by, among other things, offering a 100 percent uptime service level agreement (SLA) for Splunk Cloud. In addition to the new SLA commitment, Splunk also is offering new lower prices and new cloud service plans. Splunk Cloud is an enterprise-ready […]

Why Mobile Apps Fail by Darryl K. Taft Behind the Data Perfecto Mobile gained insight from an audience that knows mobile app development and testing the best—nearly 900 members of DevOps, quality assurance teams and the developer community. Large organizations were well-represented, with 53 percent of the respondents working at companies with more than 1,000 […]

Microsoft has released the final versions of Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013 Update 3. Microsoft has been on a quarterly release cycle for its flagship integrated development environment since 2012 and already is working on Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, said Brian Harry, a Microsoft corporate vice president and […]

Microsoft recently announced the winners of its 12thMicrosoft Imagine Cup competition for student technologists, developers and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the globe. Held for the first time in Seattle on both the University of Washington campus and the Microsoft headquarters, the Imagine Cup is a cornerstone of the Microsoft YouthSpark initiative. Over the past 12 […]

Oracle announced the results of a recent enterprise mobility survey that indicates that mobile-related IT expenses are expected to grow by more than 50 percent in two years, among other findings. To better understand the challenges of mobile application development and deployment in the enterprise today and in the future, CIO Strategic Marketing Services and […]

Oracle announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire TOA Technologies, a provider of cloud-based field service solutions that manage and optimize the last mile of customer service for enterprises by coordinating activities between dispatchers, mobile employees and their customers. TOA’s solutions manage more than 120 million service events annually in more than 20 […]