Darryl K. Taft

IBM has announced a series of deals that build on its recent cloud investments, including a new, five-year multimillion dollar cloud agreement with Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA), which operates in the Asia-Pacific region. The cloud project will streamline CCA’s operations and processes across the South Pacific region and is expected to drive significant operational costs out […]

A week after releasing its Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta, Microsoft announced availability of Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) 2.1 Beta. Microsoft officials said Python Tools for Visual Studio provide a great development experience for general scripting, web programming and technical computing. The new tools also support new web frameworks including Bottle […]

IBM is beefing up its marketing automation portfolio with the acquisition of Silverpop, an Atlanta-based provider of marketing automation and customer engagement solutions. IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Silverpop, whose software empowers marketers with cloud-based capabilities that deliver personalized customer engagements. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “The acquisition of […]

Microsoft recently announced the availability of a new set of tools for building Node.js applications. Last week at the Microsoft Build 2014 developer conference, Microsoft released its Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta. The release of the open-source tools, which has included contributions from the community since its beginning, includes support for Microsoft’s TypeScript […]

IBM HPC Technology Helps Universities Perform Pioneering Research by Darryl K. Taft Texas A&M University System The Texas A&M University System is using an IBM HPC system to advance research in agriculture, geosciences, engineering, medicine and other areas. The program harnesses the power of big data and analytics by using HPC systems to develop solutions […]

NEW YORK–IBM is offering new capabilities on its big iron platform that signal that the systems will be here for the foreseeable future and beyond. At a celebration here dubbed IBM Mainframe50, the company on April 8 announced new offerings for System z that deliver new mobile, storage and Hadoop capabilities for the mainframe. The […]

NEW YORK–Celebrating 50 years of the mainframe, IBM on April 8 announced a series of new enterprise cloud offerings for its big iron platform that will help users reduce the cost of operations and rapidly deploy trusted cloud services with mainframe technology. The new offerings help to further IBM’s strategy of enabling service providers to […]

IBM today announced the expansion of its IBM MobileFirst portfolio, with new and enhanced services focused on mobile strategy and security, application development and device procurement and management. Big Blue rolled out services, including infrastructure consulting services, to help enterprises evaluate their existing mobile infrastructure environment, identify gaps and build a comprehensive mobile strategy and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Playing on the Microsoft strategy of delivering a mobile-first, cloud-first environment for its customers, Mobilize.Net announced its new WebMAP2 migration tool, which brings cloud and mobile to millions of legacy enterprise applications. Indeed, Mobilize.Net said with its solution, businesses with legacy applications trapped on outdated platforms now have an efficient way to move their […]

SAN FRANCISCO—If ever there were definitive indications that Microsoft is changing its tune when it comes to open-source software, its decisions involving .NET announced at this year’s Build developer conference are evidence enough. Not only has Microsoft committed to open-source key parts of its .NET development framework, but the devices and services giant has also […]