Darryl K. Taft

IBM announced a new X6 architecture, which optimizes x86-based servers for analytics and cloud workloads. The X6 architecture is the sixth generation of IBM’s X-Architecture for System x and PureSystems servers and is fast, agile and resilient, IBM said. The architecture offers integrated flash storage for high-performance, modular design for long life cycles to help […]

Neo Technology, maker of the Neo4j graph database, has released Neo4j 2.0, which the company says will help bring graph databases to the masses. Neo announced an online training program along with the new release to help make the technology more approachable for mainstream users. A graph database is a database that uses graph structures […]

IBM Hosts Watson Coming-Out Party in NYC by Darryl K. Taft IBM Introduces the Watson Group at 4 World Trade Center IBM rented the 54th floor of 4 World Trade Center, which overlooks the reconstruction of the 9/11 terrorist attack site, to host its Watson Group introduction. IBM CEO Ginny Rometty Expects Watson to Be […]

Big Data and Analytics: 10 Ways IBM Demonstrates Leadership by Darryl K. Taft Taking Big Data From the Labs to the Front Line IBM brings new big data search capabilities with InfoSphere Data Explorer, a search-based big data exploration tool that helps clients distinguish different forms of data through data exploration and discovery—and helps clients […]

IBM announced that it once again led the pack in earning U.S patents for inventions made over the last year; this marks the twenty-first consecutive year that IBM has received more U.S. patents than any other organization. Big Blue said its inventors received a record-setting 6,809 patents in 2013. IBM’s 2013 patent results represent a […]

IBM said it has teamed up with OhioHealth to tap big data to help prevent infections in hospitals. Big Blue announced it is part of a collaboration to aid in the prevention of infections using a first-of-a-kind network of wireless sensors and real-time big data analytics that measure hand-washing practices. OhioHealth will use the technology […]

Earlier this week IBM launched a new business unit to commercialize and begin to capitalize in earnest on its Watson cognitive computing technology. Big Blue announced its IBM Watson Group Jan. 9 at a big function in New York City. However, just prior to the launch there was a report calling the systems, software and […]

IBM established a new business unit, the IBM Watson Group, aimed at developing and commercializing cloud-delivered cognitive innovations based on the company’s Watson technology. The unit, which will reside in New York City’s Silicon Alley, represents a major move by IBM to focus on cognitive computing and to attempt to move it out to the […]

Real-Time Data, Execution Will Drive Enterprise Strategy in 2014 by Darryl K. Taft 2014 Will See an Increased Need for Speed Real-time execution will hit its stride in 2014 and touch nearly every facet of the IT landscape. Cloud control and big data digestion have also lost their novelty, but not their endurance. With heightened […]

IBM’s 5 in 5: Life-Changing Advances in Education, Health Care by Darryl K. Taft The IBM 5 in 5 is based on market and societal trends as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s Research labs around the world that can make these transformations possible. Prediction 1: In Five Years, the Classroom Will Learn You In […]

As part of an ongoing effort to continue to advance and monetize its Watson cognitive computing technology, IBM announced the opening of a new business unit focused on the technology along with two new Watson-based products. IBM announced it will establish the IBM Watson Group, a new business unit dedicated solely to the development and […]

Apigee, which provides API management technology, has acquired InsightsOne, a technology company that provides big data predictive intelligence to help businesses understand consumer preferences. Apigee CEO Chet Kapoor said the move bolsters Apigee’s big data initiative, which the company began two-and-a-half years ago. Indeed, InsightsOne expands Apigee’s big data analytics portfolio, giving business leaders a […]