Darryl K. Taft

IBM Walks Through Its Software Development History by Darryl K. Taft IBM’s Software Development Transformation IBM has gone from the rigid patterns of the waterfall methodology to the fluid, flexible world of Agile development and continuous delivery to speed up software lifecycles. Development Guidance Principles The goal is to focus on tools not rules, support […]

NEW YORK–Act-On Software, a marketing automation software provider for small and midsize companies, demonstrated why it is considered a leader in its space at its #iheartmarketing user conference here featuring hundreds of the company’s users. At the June 6 event, a regional conference for the company’s East Coast customers, users called out Act-On’s ease of […]

Sencha, a provider of HTML5 development tools for desktop and mobile applications, announced an upgrade to Ext JS, its flagship development platform for building cross-browser applications. Ext JS 5 enables developers to build or move desktop apps to mobile devices with little to no modification to the existing code base and within the same development […]

Microsoft has released the first community technology preview (CTP) of the next major version of Visual Studio, codenamed Visual Studio 14. The company is maintaining its commitment to a faster cadence of Visual Studio releases with the release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 last month and the release of the first CTP of Visual […]

ORLANDO, Fla.–IBM announced the three winners of the 2014 Watson Mobile Developer Challenge, a global competition where developers and entrepreneurs created consumer and business apps using IBM’s Watson cognitive computing capabilities. Teams spanning 18 industries from 43 countries submitted more than 400 business concepts that demonstrated how cognitive computing can tackle societal and business challenges. […]

ORLANDO–IBM added new services to its Bluemix platform as a service (PaaS) and announced that businesses of all sizes are rapidly adopting IBM Bluemix to develop software in the cloud. In addition, Big Blue announced that Bluemix, which was delivered as a preview at IBM’s Pulse 2014 conference in February, will become generally available at […]

IBM System z Mainframe Continues to Be an Engine of Progress by Darryl K. Taft Business Connexion Developing areas of Africa lack energy infrastructure to support the data centers required for Internet services, resulting in fragmented access to services such as banking and education. However, using IBM mainframe technology, Business Connexion, an African managed service […]

IBM Brings Big Data Analytics to the Masses Anywhere, Anytime By Darryl K. Taft Analytics Penetrating All Areas Gartner predicts that analytics will reach 50 percent of potential users by the end of 2014. By 2020, that figure will be 75 percent, and we will be in a world where systems of record, systems of […]

IBM announced that the cities of Minneapolis, Minn., and Montpellier, France, are working with Big Blue to make data-driven decisions to transform the way they provide water, transportation and emergency management. The systems, software and services giant also announced the availability of three new cloud-based Smarter Cities management centers for transportation, water and emergency management. […]

Microsoft delivered a preview of the next version of its ASP.NET Web development framework at its TechEd 2014 conference, and now that software is able to run on OS X and Linux. Graeme Christie, a .NET developer, wrote a blog post on how he has enabled Microsoft’s open-source, cross-platform ASP.NET vNext to run on OS […]