LucidWorks pulls in $10M to turn open source data into ‘business gold’

Big data startup LucidWorks has raised $10 million to help enterprise companies "turn multi-structured data into business gold."

SRCH2 launches ‘Google-like’ tech to fix enterprise search

Newly-launched startup SRCH2 is not focused on standard web search, a space inhabited by Google and Bing, but is offering a new take on 'enterprise search.'

How The Weather Company survived a 1,000% traffic spike during Hurricane Sandy

On Monday, the company was serving 110 gigabytes of data per second, almost without a hiccup, not counting the livestreams -- 170 thousand simultaneous streams of live video, pushed out over the Internet.

Nginx: the web server tech you’ve never heard of that powers Netflix, Facebook, and WordPress

The world’s third-most widely used server technology powers the top social site on the planet, a billion hours of streaming video a month, the busiest blog site on the globe, and top content delivery networks like Cloudflare, but no one …

Sony’s network guru: PlayStation Network downtime was a ‘great experience’

Most companies would call a hacking attack that brings a critical service offline a disaster. Sony’s president of network entertainment Tim Schaaff thinks it’s a blast.

“Great experience, really good time,” he said. “Though I wouldn’t like to do it …