Darryl K. Taft

SALT LAKE CITY – Borrowing from its PhoneGap platform and other places, Adobe announced a series of new tools that help companies create, manage and deliver highly personalized mobile app experiences to their customers in real-time and without the need for app development skills. The new capabilities, announced at the Adobe Summit 2014 here, build […]

SALT LAKE CITY – Adobe kicked off its Digital Marketing Summit here by taking the crowd of more than 5,000 digital marketers, publishers, agencies and technologists on a journey toward marketing reinvention. At this year’s annual trek to the mountains to preach the gospel of digital marketing, Adobe says it is answering marketer’s call to […]

NEW YORK—Microsoft is using machine learning across the board in its products, and deep learning techniques are finding their way into more and more Microsoft technologies, including Windows Phone, according to the head of the company’s machine learning department. Speaking at the GigaOm Structure Data conference here, John Platt, Microsoft distinguished scientist and manager of […]

NEW YORK—When IBM opened up its Watson cognitive computing platform to developers last November, it launched an effort to enable anybody with programming skills and an idea to take the technology and use it as a foundation for building apps that can both understand natural language and learn new things to expand its knowledge base. […]

NEW YORK–IBM launched new software and services to help organizations use Big Data and Analytics to address the $3.5 trillion lost each year to fraud and financial crimes. At an event to introduce its new Smarter Counter Fraud initiative here, IBM said through sophisticated business expertise and analytics, organizations can take a holistic approach to […]

NEW YORK–With its latest round of funding, big data darling Cloudera is poised to go public some time down the road as the company continues to integrate its operations and work more closely with partners. Speaking at the GigaOm Structure Data conference here on March 20, Tom Reilly, CEO of Cloudera, talked about how the […]

A team of former Microsoft execs and engineers have launched Highspot, a startup with a new cloud knowledge management service that helps organizations capture, share, and cultivate their most valuable working knowledge via machine learning. Highspot’s chief scientist, Paul Viola, ran the core data science team for Microsoft’s Bing search engine and helped it to […]

Oracle announced the general availability Java Platform, Standard Edition 8 (Java SE 8), a major feature release of the Java platform. This release has been much anticipated as it was delayed while Oracle took time to secure the platform and work on other features. In fact, Java 8 is the first major release of Java […]

A Look at Mainframe History as IBM System/360 Turns 50, COBOL Turns 55 by Darryl K. Taft 1956: The Beginnings of a Mainframe Before the advent of the mainframe, IBM developed the 350 RAMAC. Built in 1956, it used a stack of fifty 24-inch disks as memory, which held about 4.4MB of data—just enough to […]

IBM said chief marketing officers (CMOs) that have been successful in mixing internal data with external data are able to uncover insights that drive financial success for their organizations. According to a new IBM study, high-performing CMOs are integrating internal and external data to garner deep insights that, in turn, provide them with a much […]