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 ...

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 ...

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. Elastic's ...