Darryl K. Taft

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Zend has announced the launch of a new open-source project called Apigility, which is known as an opinionated API builder. Launched at ZendCon, the PHP 2013 Conference here, the Apigility project has a goal of providing an easy way to create and maintain high-quality API-based applications. Apigility uses the Zend Framework as its […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Zend announced new offerings designed to empower companies to become more agile in their delivery of new applications. At its ZendCon 2013 PHP conference here, Zend announced a new API framework as well as a new Blueprint for Continuous Delivery. That blueprint is a broad solution built on the Zend Server platform that […]

MongoDB, provider of the MongoDB NoSQL database, recently announced it has secured a whopping $150 million in financing, led by a global financial services company and by certain funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, with additional new investors Altimeter Capital and Salesforce.com. The funding round also included participation from existing investors Intel […]

Splunk recently announced Splunk Cloud, a new service that delivers Splunk Enterprise in the cloud. However, at least one competitor is asking whether Splunk Cloud is a cop-out. In a blog post, Charlie Oppenheimer, CEO of Spunk competitor Loggly, claims that Splunk has given up on software as a service (SaaS). “It appears that Splunk […]

LAS VEGAS–Fortscale, an Israeli-based big data cyber-security analytics startup, announced a new big data security solution, Fortscale 1.0, at .conf2013, Splunk’s annual worldwide users’ conference here. Currently in beta, Fortscale 1.0 enables enterprises to easily run big data analytics for cyber-security. The analytics are layered on top of the existing capabilities of big data platforms, […]

LAS VEGAS—INETCO Systems announced the beta availability of INETCO NetStream, a new product for streaming rich transaction event data to Splunk Enterprise. Announced at conf2013, the Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference 2013 here, INETCO NetStream collects network data, transforms it into rich transaction events and streams this data in real time into Splunk Enterprise. This new […]

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 […]