Darryl K. Taft

Stack Overflow has released the raw data from its 2016 Developer Survey, which found JavaScript to be the most popular programming language around. Released in March, the survey was the most comprehensive developer survey to date, with more than 50,000 responses fielded from across 173 countries, Stack Overflow said. The results of the survey provided […]

Although IBM has had a penchant for patting itself on the back regarding its cloud strategy, market watchers are beginning to give the company props for its cloud service offerings. IBM announced that market research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) named IBM as the second leading infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud provider behind Amazon Web Services (AWS). […]

A Look at Today’s Developer Job Market, Programming Tool Trends Recently released data from Stack Overflow sheds new light on the programmer workforce and offers insight on developer hiring and tech trends. Students Of the 12.6 percent of Stack Overflow respondents that identify themselves as students, ages range from 16 to 65 years. Self-Taught Nearly […]

SOASTA, a provider of performance analytics solutions, has entered into the realm of companies trying to address the data scientist shortage and enable organizations to more easily work with and analyze data. Data.world, meanwhile, launched on July 11 to help users more easily access and work with open data to solve problems. SOASTA recently delivered […]

How IBM Cloud Is Fueling the Next Generation of Cognitive Startups IBM Bluemix is helping companies of all sorts build more intuitive applications using Watson cognitive analytics. Here are some interesting examples. Meeka Developed in just three weeks on Bluemix with Watson APIs, Meeka is a wedding planning mobile app created by Brazilian startup Macasei. […]

IBM continues to push its cognitive agenda, now with a focus on delivering cognitive computing technology to the medical supply chain. IBM has joined forces with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) to inject cognitive analytics into the supply chain, including taking a minority stake in Pensiamo, a new company UPMC formed to help […]

IBM this week informed its employees in the Netherlands that a layoff is coming and it will begin Sept. 1. According to an email leaked to the “Watching IBM” page on Facebook, IBM will initiate what it calls a Workforce Rebalancing program in the Netherlands to remain competitive in the market. News of a layoff […]

5 Steps on the Journey to Modern BI Modern business intelligence platforms go deeper than traditional models, asking the important questions about how and why something happened. Fluid Data Discovery The analytics workflow is an important aspect of getting the fastest time-to-insight. Analysis is much faster in modern BI in which it is iterative and […]

IBM Research has launched a new Experimentation-as-a-Service offering that enables users to create demos of products and services and host them on the IBM Cloud. Experimentation as a Service is not a new thing; other cloud computing infrastructure providers such as Microsoft and Amazon have taken a crack at this issue. Experimentation as a Service […]

The creators of the Scrum method of Agile software development have introduced a new version of The Scrum Guide. Scrum.org, an organization focused on improving software delivery through training, certification assessments and community, with Scrum Inc., a leading Scrum training and consulting provider, have updated The Scrum Guide, according to Scrum co-creators Ken Schwaber and […]