Darryl K. Taft

With the explosion of big data and companies mining it for analytics and insights, developers are working on more big data projects than ever. In fact, more than a third—36 percent—of all developers who are working on big data or advanced analytics projects are using elements of machine learning, according to a recent Evans Data […]

Brexit: Now What? What Your Company Needs to Know It’s unclear how the British exit from the EU will affect the global economy, but this eWEEK slide show suggests five things for organizations to think about. Recruiting Talent Tech companies with offices in the United Kingdom might have trouble finding and hiring enough skilled engineers […]

IBM has joined the Chamber of Digital Commerce, a Washington, D.C.-based digital asset and blockchain trade association, as an executive committee member. The chamber is a lobby that works with policymakers and regulators to foster innovation, jobs and investment in the blockchain opportunity. Blockchain is a permissionless distributed database based on the Bitcoin protocol that […]

7 Mobile App Dev Vulnerabilities That Can Cost You an Arm and a Leg The popularity of mobile apps and rise of cyber-criminals lurking in the mobile space means companies must take more precautions to build secure apps. Authentication/Authorization Authentication and authorization vulnerabilities allow malicious users to execute tasks, such as impersonating and performing operations […]

This week at its MongoDB World conference in New York, MongoDB announced the MongoDB Connector for Apache Spark, which enables developers and data scientists to get real-time analytics from fast-moving data. The product is now available for users to run analytics and glean insights from live, operational and streaming data. MongoDB worked closely with Databricks, […]

Shawn Murray was perfectly happy as the senior director of Azure digital sales at Microsoft, as he had been with the company for 18 years—continually moving up the ladder. Then Murray got a glimpse of what IBM was doing with its Bluemix platform and its outreach to developers, and he decided to make a change. […]

Why IT Pros Must Know the Difference Between the Web and Internet Think the Internet and the World Wide Web are the same? Not understanding the difference can have a huge impact on the health of your IT operations. Monitoring and Controlling the Internet Is a Must Most companies monitor the Web, but not the […]

IBM and Cisco Systems on June 30 announced plans to partner and integrate their collaboration tools and add some cognitive technology to help transform the way people work. IBM will integrate Cisco’s Spark and WebEx collaborative workspace platforms with IBM’s cloud-based Connections and Verse collaboration solutions to form a suite of tools that will tap […]

Accenture Making Big Moves to Improve Its Standing as a Cloud Leader Accenture has been working hard to make its mark in the cloud services space. Here are some of the IT services firm’s most significant recent efforts. Accenture, Mediaset Deliver UEFA Champions League Football Matches Thanks to a collaboration between Mediaset, Italy’s largest TV […]

With a theme of “Giant Ideas,” MongoDB is breaking new ground as a hot NoSQL database. This week at its MongoDB World conference, the company declared that its database enables developers to launch their giant ideas and create big things. As part of that, Mongo DB announced Atlas, its new database-as-a-service offering, as well as […]