When it comes to making a list of major advances that have furthered the digital revolution, open-source software would likely be near the top. But open source has one drawback for developers. The documentation for how software and services were built, including licenses, is often contained in binaries that can be a challenge to manage ...

It’s become almost a daily headline in the news now. Equifax Inc. loses confidential information on 143 million Americans in cyberattack. Hackers compromise Deloitte LLP’s usernames and passwords. Whole Foods Market victimized in credit card breach. A steady drumbeat of bad news in online security has many people wondering now if the cyberworld will ever become safe. What’s ...

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 ...