Darryl K. Taft

LAS VEGAS—Compuware demonstrated its newest application performance management (APM) solution resulting from its alliance with Splunk at the fourth annual Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference, .conf2013, here. Compuware showed off Compuware APM for Splunk Enterprise. Compuware’s integration with Splunk gives users deep visibility into machine data from all technology tiers within Splunk. The application delivers end-to-end […]

LAS VEGAS—ExtraHop Networks, a provider of analytics for wire data or data in motion, joined forces with Splunk to deliver a new compliance and security offering. The product provides pervasive, context-aware monitoring that imparts intelligent compliance and security, ExtraHop officials said. The ExtraHop compliance and security offering provides correlated, cross-tier visibility and anomaly detection that […]

Adobe Systems has reported a massive security breach that could impact up to 2.9 million Adobe customers. According to Brad Arkin, Adobe’s chief security officer, cyber-attackers compromised information relating to 2.9 million Adobe customers, including customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates and other information relating to customer orders. “At this time, […]

LAS VEGAS—Splunk, a provider of an operational intelligence software platform, announced a new Website with more than 400 apps and add-ons to help customers and partners add more value to their investment in the company’s software. Splunk developers, partners and customers have added more than 100 new apps this year alone, company officials said at […]

IBM has announced its acquisition of Xtify, a New York City-based provider of cloud-based mobile messaging tools that help organizations improve mobile sales, drive in-store traffic and engage customers with personalized offers. While financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, IBM has been flexing its muscles in the mobile space with its MobileFirst strategy, […]

Splunk Enterprise 6 Delivers Powerful, Fast Analytics to Business, IT Users by Darryl K. Taft Home Screen Splunk Enterprise 6 includes powerful productivity features for users with a completely redesigned user experience that delivers simpler, more intuitive actions. The new home experience is easy to personalize and gives users instant access to the data, apps […]

LAS VEGAS–Splunk announced the general availability of Splunk Cloud, a new service that delivers Splunk Enterprise in the cloud. Splunk Cloud is powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and includes access to all the features of the Splunk Enterprise platform including apps, APIs, alerting and role-based access controls. Splunk Cloud also supports all core Splunk […]

LAS VEGAS–Splunk, a big data player that provides a software platform for real-time operational intelligence, announced the general availability of Splunk Enterprise 6, the latest version of the company’s platform for machine data. Splunk Enterprise 6 delivers powerful and fast analytics, up to 1,000 times faster than previous versions, and patent-pending technology designed to quickly […]

IBM and Deutsche Telekom announced a collaboration to deliver the IBM MobileFirst platform in the cloud to small and midsize (SMB) customers in Europe. Indeed, Deutsche Telekom’s developer platform—Developer Garden—has launched the new cloud service, the Developer Garden-powered IBM Worklight, which enables developers to quickly create apps for all mobile platforms and bring them to […]

Microsoft announced the launch of BrowserSwarm, a new open-source tool that helps Web developers automate testing of their JavaScript frameworks and libraries across devices and browsers. Developed in collaboration with AppendTo and Sauce Labs, BrowserSwarm is powered through the cloud, allowing developers to save time setting up multiple browser or device testing environments and precious […]

Nearly four out of 10 (or 39 percent of) developers working with big data applications say they believe a government agency is keeping track of the data that they create, collect or use, according to the findings of a new survey. More than one-third of developers polled believe they have reason to think the government […]

Microsoft Open Technologies (MS Open Tech) and Azul Systems announced the availability of Zulu for Windows Azure, Azul’s new build of the community-driven open source Java implementation, known as OpenJDK, for Windows Server on the Windows Azure platform. Announced at the JavaOne 2013 conference in San Francisco on Sept. 25, the Zulu technology preview is […]