Is there any better example of the need for reliable “real-time data in motion” technology than a moving car? Automobiles today are computers on wheels, generating critical data such as geo-location and speed, in addition to information from multiple embedded devices and communicating it all back to the cloud. At the center of this real-time ...

With more than 100 years of experience in making industrial products, it only seems natural that Hitachi Ltd. would seek to leverage its market presence by embracing the next wave of industrial innovation: “internet of things.” Lately, the company has been making several moves to step aggressively into the internet of things realm, starting with the formation ...

A cloud giant and major player in active data replication teamed up this week to offer a new service that will replicate information at scale between on-premises and cloud environments. The technology allows Microsoft Azure customers to install WANdisco Fusion on an HDInsight cluster with a single click. “If you’ve got some data assets, Hadoop ...

Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Netscape, famously wrote in 2011 that “software is eating the world.” Doug Merritt (pictured), chief executive officer of Splunk Inc., has a different twist on Andreessen’s words of wisdom. “I’d take it one step further and say that this is becoming a data-driven and a data insight world,” Merritt said. ...

Splunk Inc. has a plan to reach 20,000 net customers and $2 billion in revenue by 2020. Some analysts think the data operational intelligence platform company could do better than that. “It’s currently a $1.2-billion company with a $10-billion valuation, so that’s nothing to sneeze at. You can see this company has the potential to ...

Deep learning models applied to big data platforms are capturing enterprise interest this week as entrepreneurs develop conversational interfaces that attempt to sound more realistic than anything else on the market. It’s a tall order, but the next Amazon.com Inc. may emerge from the fray. “The vendors who appear to be on the verge of ...

With the announcement this week of its cloud-based DataPlane Service, Hortonworks Inc. is now firmly seated on the simplicity bandwagon. The enterprise-scale offering is designed to provide an easier way for organizations to govern and analyze data, no matter where it may reside. “The goal is to keep making it simpler and easier for the ...

Splunk Inc. made plenty of announcements this week, with a particular focus on adding machine learning, scale and speed for data analytics. But rumblings about the high cost of Splunk’s products and services, coupled with questions about whether the company was positioning itself as a big data platform were top-of-mind for many analysts. “I presume ...

Hackers are now designing attacks that move at machine speed, yet security defenses are only as good as the humans who monitor them to repel breaches. Care to wager on who’s going to come out ahead? The cybersecurity arms race has reached a new level, one where companies and even governments are realizing that the ...

When dcVAST Inc. was founded in 1989, the on-premises data center was king. There was no Amazon.com Inc., no Google LLC  and a cloud was something that provided relief from the sun on a hot summer day. Fast forward to 2017, and the company has pivoted. It now provides a wide array of managed information technology infrastructure ...