Darryl K. Taft

LinkedIn announced that it has open-sourced its machine learning library for Apache Spark, known as Photon ML. Apache Spark is an open-source cluster computing framework used for processing and analyzing big data. The open-source data processing engine was built for speed, ease of use and sophisticated analytics. Spark is designed to perform both batch processing […]

Databricks, the company founded by the team that created Apache Spark, today announced the completion of the first phase of the Databricks Enterprise Security (DBES) framework. In making the announcement at the Spark Summit 2016 in San Francisco, Databricks said this move makes it the first company to provide end-to-end enterprise security for Apache Spark. […]

Splice Machine, which makes and markets a Hadoop and Spark powered database, announced it is moving to open source to enhance both adoption of its software as well as the quality of the product. Using in-memory technology from Spark and scale-out capabilities from Hadoop, the Splice Machine relational database management system (RDBMS) powers new applications […]

IBM has launched a new application for Apache Spark called the Data Science Experience, which the company is referring to as the first enterprise application for Apache Spark. In an interview with eWEEK, Ritika Gunnar, vice president of Offering Management for IBM Analytics, described the new IBM Data Science Experience as a cloud-based development environment […]

The R Consortium, an open-source foundation to support the R programming language and its user community, today announced that IBM has joined the organization as a Platinum member, the highest level of membership available. R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. […]

Lightbend, the creator and steward of the Scala programming language, is investing in delivering the tools and frameworks that developers need to create reactive, fast data and microservices-based applications. The company, formerly known as Typesafe, offers its Scala-based Lightbend Reactive Platform that enables developers to build message-driven applications that scale on multicore and cloud computing […]

IBM and Cisco on June 2 announced a collaborative effort to provide fast Internet of things (IoT) insight at the edge of the network by combining Cisco’s network infrastructure and analytics technology with IBM’s cognitive computing and business process management solutions. The collaboration will enable businesses and organizations in remote and autonomous locations to understand […]

As IBM goes about its efforts to transform itself to focus on strategic imperatives such as cloud computing, analytics and cognitive technology, the company also is quietly getting rid of an increasing number of employees. According to various reports, most prominently, the Watching IBM page on Facebook, IBM has let thousands of employees go this […]

7 Developer Tools Anyone Can Use to Build Modern Enterprise Apps From Ruby to JavaScript, there are numerous languages and DevOps tools available to help build that latest, modern-day, enterprise-grade app. Ruby One of RedMonk’s most popular programming languages, Ruby is a general-purpose language that has been widely used for over 20 years. Often used […]

The mainframe is not dead, and IBM is doing its part to ensure that big iron will not be going anywhere for some time. Big Blue announced on June 1 its intent to acquire EZ Legacy (EZSource), an Israel-based application discovery company, to help developers easily understand and change mainframe code based on data displayed […]