Darryl K. Taft

NEW YORK—As has been expected, MongoDB, maker of the NoSQL database by the same name, today announced MongoDB Atlas, its database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering. MongoDB Atlas is an elastic, on-demand cloud service that includes all necessary infrastructure and turnkey management of the MongoDB database for users. The service will be available initially on Amazon Web Services, […]

Codenvy, Microsoft and Red Hat announced on June 27 the adoption of a language server protocol project to provide a common way to integrate programming languages across code editors and integrated development environments (IDEs). The companies announced the new protocol during the opening general session of the DevNation 2016 conference in San Francisco. The project […]

IBM this week announced the formation of a Watson Health medical imaging collaborative comprised of 16 leading health systems, academic medical centers, ambulatory radiology providers and imaging technology companies. Anne Le Grand, vice president of imaging at IBM Watson Health, said the goal of the collaborative, initiated by IBM, is to bring cognitive imaging into […]

Don’t Let Crazy Help Desk Questions Cramp Your Summer Style Help desk requests coming into IT can be a bit crazy and off the wall all year-round. Based on SolarWinds research, we present some examples. If You Knew the Answer, Why Did You Ask? IT: Have you rebooted it?End User: I knew you were going […]

IBM announced the next generation of its IBM MobileFirst Foundation, now available on the IBM Cloud to accelerate enterprise mobile application development. IBM MobileFirst Foundation is the company’s suite of tools to help enterprise developers build, test, connect, run and manage mobile applications. The integrated platform includes a comprehensive development environment, mobile-optimized runtime middleware, a […]

Don’t Let Malicious Software Hold Your Data for Ransom Ransomware is a growing threat, but a simple solution exists to thwart attackers: effective backup. Here we offer tips for an effective backup plan. Protect Distributed Data Ensure you have an enterprise-grade automated backup solution as an insurance policy in case of an intrusion such as […]

The Eclipse Foundation on June 22 announced the availability of its Neon release, the eleventh annual coordinated release train of open-source projects from the Eclipse community. The Neon release includes 84 Eclipse projects consisting of more than 69 million lines of code, with contributions by 779 developers, 331 of whom are Eclipse committers. Last year’s […]

IBM has announced a set of new tools for its Bluemix OpenWhisk event-driven programming model, which uses Docker containers. The new tools will enable developers to build intuitive applications that can easily connect into the Internet of things (IoT), as well as tap into advanced services such as cognitive, analytics and more—without the need to […]

IBM recently launched and expanded a series of cloud computing partnerships aimed at helping customers transition their operations for the digital age. IBM expanded partnerships with VMware and SugarCRM and entered into a new partnership with Acxiom around the IBM Cloud. IBM and VMware also announced an expansion of the partnership they initially launched at […]

As Microsoft moves to become all things to all developers, the company has undergone some growing pains in terms of making that happen via its core toolset, Visual Studio. The move to take its .NET platform cross-platform and to support all different kinds of development from the Visual Studio toolset has bloated the size of […]