Darryl K. Taft

IBM’s Power Play Aims to Disrupt Server Industry By Darryl K. Taft May 2013: IBM Opens Power Systems Linux Center to Aid Developers A key move signaling IBM’s stepped-up commitment to Linux on Power dates back to May 15, 2013, when IBM announced the opening of the world’s first IBM Power Systems Linux Center in […]

Just one week after delivering the final version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, Microsoft has released the next update to its flagship software development toolset, Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP 1). On May 22, Microsoft provided developers with Update 3 to Visual Studio 2013, which brings improvements on Visual […]

SAP announced the release of SAP Mobile Platform 3.0 and also noted that energy company National Grid has standardized on the platform for building and managing new mobile apps. The new release features an open standards-based platform architecture and one common software development kit (SDK). SAP Mobile Platform 3.0’s architecture embraces a “bring-your-own-tools” (BYOT) strategy […]

IBM Helping Businesses Tackle Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Social Media by Darryl K. Taft Infrastructure Matters at IBM and Elsewhere “Infrastructure Matters” was the theme of the IBM Edge 2014 conference in Las Vegas, where Big Blue announced new systems and storage offerings to shore up enterprise infrastructure. The right infrastructure is needed to handle the […]

LAS VEGAS — With its new BlueMix Platform as a Service (PaaS), IBM has targeted Microsoft’s Azure PaaS and is banking on its adherence to openness as an advantage over the software giant now focused on a mobile-first, cloud-first world. In a series of recent interviews with IBM, the company made official its plans to […]

Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive – Software & Systems at IBM, sat down with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft for a series of interviews recently where Mills spoke candidly about competing with Microsoft and the advantages IBM has in taking an open approach, among many other things. How do you convey […]

LAS VEGAS—IBM Research has set a new record for storing massive amounts of data on tape, the company announced at its IBM Edge 2014 conference here. Dr. Mark Lantz, manager of exploratory tape at IBM Research-Zurich said IBM researchers have demonstrated a new record of 85.9 billion bits of data per square inch in areal […]

LAS VEGAS — IBM has released preliminary study findings of 750 global organizations that show that less than 10 percent are fully prepared to address the proliferation of cloud computing, analytics, mobile devices, and social media, so Big Blue is providing new systems to help them. Preliminary findings from a new Institute for Business Value […]

Microsoft and SAP AG have expanded their global partnership to deliver new cloud, data and mobile solutions to help improve employee productivity, enhance workforce mobility and drive increased business value for customers and partners. This announcement extends the companies’ long-term partnership in three critical areas: enterprise cloud computing with SAP applications certification for Microsoft Azure; […]

IBM announced a major deal with energy provider NiSource whereby Big Blue will provide a broad range of IT services, including the creation and management of a hybrid cloud computing environment for the organization. Under a seven-year, $600 million agreement, IBM will help accelerate business innovation, while supporting NiSource’s focus on customer service, system security […]