Splunk Inc., best know for software that monitors and analyzes machine-generated big data, has joined the movement toward intelligent edge computing. It etched out its (not fully baked) plans to enable data analytics at “internet of things” end points today during the Splunk .conf2017 in Washington, D.C.  Splunk does not yet offer much in the way of ...

There is no lack of big data software tools nowadays, but businesses often spend much time learning to wield them with little profit to show for it. Could new big data as a service offerings make lighter work of monetization? “There are a plethora of tools, and tools are good. Platforms are better,” said John ...

Storage vendors are pushing technologies like flash and Non-Volatile Memory Express, or NVMe, over fabric to meet the demands of modern workloads. But the very best storage can’t whiz through a sluggish, traffic-jammed network. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is incorporating Mellanox Technologies Ltd’s Spectrum Ethernet Fabric Solution into its StoreFabric M-series switches to clear network arteries for data-heavy applications. ...

Veritas Technologies LLC is revamping its products and brand for multicloud. This move is rippling out to its solution-provider partners, including NetX Information Systems Inc. “Six moths ago — NetX — we weren’t doing anything in cloud,” said Angelo Sciascia (pictured), senior vice president of NetX. NetX began in security and systems management, but in 2013, the company ...

OpenStack’s open-source cloud computing platform has major cost advantages over public cloud providers. But enterprises that deploy workloads in OpenStack soon discover why public clouds can charge customers to manage the technical elements on their behalf. Pulling together all the components of an OpenStack cloud by themselves can be a headache for enterprises, according to Eric Kessels ...

Backing up data for recovery in the event of a disaster provides critical insurance for enterprises. But why let potentially valuable data sit there and collect dust when it could be put to work for tests, development and cost savings? Loads of companies would like to do just that — but they can’t work very ...

Cloud is a convenient improvement over hardware for customers as well software and service partners — well, mostly. For the latter, cloud presents some tricky competitive issues due to cloud providers’ ability to deliver services themselves. Veritas Technologies LLC came to realize this over the past year as it worked to integrate with major cloud providers. ...

Automation and machine learning are great technologies for Internet of Things and data applications. They’re also handy tools for cyber attackers to infiltrate those applications. “Threats are becoming more sophisticated to try to obfuscate into data flows and to try to remain silent on networks,” said Derek Manky (pictured), global security strategist at Fortinet Inc. Unlike ...

Data protection’s new incarnation incorporates both on-premises data centers and virtualized cloud environments with traditional backup methods and current data management innovations. Are backup legacies or data availability startups better-equipped to streamline all of them together? “We’re going from reactive recovery to proactive, assured productivity,” said Jason Buffington (pictured), principal analyst, data protection, at The Enterprise Strategy ...

Which technology holds the key to unlock big data’s profit potential? Veritas Technologies LLC believes that its backup legacy and new machine learning tools may be the winning combo. “We have all this data that’s essentially sitting inactive,” said David Noy (pictured), vice president of product management at Veritas Technologies. But the huge corpus of data that ...