Darryl K. Taft

Unisys has released results of a recent survey that indicates that chief information officers (CIOs) are the key drivers in migrating enterprise IT resources to the cloud. The company surveyed 200 IT and business executives in the United States and 72 percent of them said the CIO is their organization’s primary driver of cloud migration. […]

IBM’s research scientists have developed a new lab-on-a-chip technology that can separate biological particles at the nanoscale to enable doctors to detect diseases such as cancer, even before symptoms appear. IBM is working with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York to perfect the technology and to test it on prostate […]

Azul Systems has expanded the opportunity for Java developers in the embedded and internet of things (IoT) spaces by offering its open-source implementation of Java for embedded systems—Zulu Embedded—on ARM 32-bit processors. Azul announced general availability of its OpenJDK-based Zulu Embedded offering for ARM 32-bit processors and provided a roadmap of its support for additional […]

IBM has delivered its new IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics application, which enables enterprise security teams to look deeply into their organizations’ IT environments to root out abnormal behavior that can or has caused cyber-threats. The free application, available on the IBM Security App Exchange, is designed to target insider threats, which make up 60 […]

8 Lessons Every Enterprise Can Learn From 2016 Presidential Election Launching and running a successful presidential campaign is similar to starting and running an enterprise. Here are some key lessons enterprises can learn from this year’s presidential campaigns. Infrastructure Pays Off It’s not sexy, but it is essential. The campaigns that invest in data infrastructure, […]

Oracle today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire cloud software provider NetSuite in a $9.3 billion deal to make Oracle a power in the cloud space. The move is aimed at strengthening Oracle’s cloud software offerings, which have been a source of growth for the company. In its latest earnings […]

Kony, a provider of enterprise mobility solutions for developers, has upped its mobile backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) game with new microservices and object services technology that enables development teams to set up software “app factories” for easily building new applications from reusable parts. The latest release of Kony MobileFabric, MobileFabric 7.0, provides this new model-driven approach to […]

IBM, master of the mainframe, recently reported that revenue for its z Systems mainframe business dropped 40 percent in the second quarter of 2016. While Big Blue said this is to be expected as it is moving toward the end of the company’s mainframe product cycle, when sales of the big iron slow down as […]

Voice Biometric Hackathon Spurs Development of New Apps KnuVerse held a hackathon to challenge developers to integrate its cloud-based API for voice authentication into traditional web and mobile apps. Campus Claim Real-time, physical-space game Campus Claim has two components: a mobile application users can run on their personal devices and custom-built IoT devices located around […]

Unisys has reported its second-quarter 2016 financial results, showing revenues of $748.9 million—down 2 percent from the same period a year ago. Though revenue for the quarter declined, Unisys saw year-over-year increases in operating profit margin, operating cash flow and free cash flow, as the company continues to transition to higher-value business opportunities, said Peter […]