Elastic is the commercial vendor that sits behind the Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash and Beats open source projects. Elasticsearch was created back in 2010 by Shay Banon, co-founder and CTO of the ...

Summary Cisco's purchase of Splunk could lead to a wave of M&A in the software industry. Elastic N.V. could benefit from the Cisco-Splunk deal and potentially become a target for acquisition.

Things just took another turn for the worse for Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK) stock. Already struggling as the company tries to manage its software platform's transition to the cloud, Doug Merritt -- the CEO ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Victor Dey is an analyst and writer covering AI and emerging tech. IT and application performance observability platforms have ...