It’s not clear when or how Big Data software and the companies selling it will cross the chasm into mainstream corporate use.

Google added another small piece to its cloud platform today with the acquisition of video streaming company Anvato Inc. Anvato sells software that automates encoding, editing, publishing and distribution of video for companies such as NBCUniversal, Univision, Fox Sports and Media General. Google, whose cloud business still trails far behind those of Amazon.com and Microsoft, clearly hopes ...

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. Chief Executive Meg Whitman is tightening the company's executive ranks anew as Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink has announced his retirement.

As the first big data company to go public, Hortonworks Inc. has been a natural target for both competitors and investors — never more than now. The Santa Clara (Calif.) company sells subscriptions and services for its Hortonworks Data Platform, which is built upon the open source software Apache Hadoop for storing, processing and analyzing ...

Twilio goes public in first venture-backed IPO this year, but don't expect many more anytime soon.

Trooly has raised $10 million to market a faster and cheaper machine learning-driven alternative to conventional background checks.

Machine learning, the branch of artificial intelligence that helps computers learn without being specifically programmed, has quickly emerged as table stakes for companies to remain competitive in everything from media and advertising to enterprise computing. Now, it’s apparent that Twitter Inc. aims to keep up in machine learning with giants such as Google, Facebook, IBM and ...

Apache Spark, the open source software framework for distributing computing across many clusters of machines, has caught on like wildfire among companies looking to divine insights from their growing masses of data. Nowhere was that more apparent than at a conference this week in San Francisco centered on the software. Spark Summit West drew a ...

Two-year-old Israeli startup Iguaz.io aims to untangle the current hairball of ways to store and move big data for analytics.

Software companies are suddenly finding it tough to go public, and the situation isn’t likely to ease much soon.