Many of us will remember 2017 for big, global events—huge hurricanes, continuing wars and, of course, the ascension of a certain orange-haired, former reality-TV star to the presidency. But since my d…

It may be true that software is “eating the world”, and every company on the planet is going digital. But in many ways, hardware is now moving back into the tech-industry limelight—and generating stoc…

Many of today’s hottest new enterprise technologies are centered around free, “open-source” technology. As a result, many big companies—from financial giants to retailers to services firms—are buildin…

With the year’s big consumer-tech event, the Consumer Electronics Show, now finished up in Las Vegas, I wanted to focus on enterprise-tech—specifically, trends to watch this this year. A year ago, did…

In the last several years, hordes of new enterprise-IT upstarts have popped up in Silicon Valley, with some drawing lofty valuations from investors. They’re driven by new, more-advanced technologies i…

We’ve all heard how big, unstructured data is being generated at an unprecedented pace today, and about the tremendous value that can be generated by capturing insights from big data–whether fro…

Welcome back to the Battery Ventures Open Source podcast. Today’s podcast is drawn from Battery’s recent Open Source Summit. The event–which drew 140 technology executives, investors and others to Pal…

It’s no secret that open-source technology — once the province of radicals, hippies and granola eaters — has gone mainstream. According to industry estimates, more than 180 young companies that give a…

Worlds created entirely of clouds. “Unicorns” racing through new landscapes. Data moving faster than the speed of light. For those of you who don’t work in enterprise technology, this may sound like a…

There has been tremendous buzz around “Big Data” fueled by the exploding volume, variety and velocity of data from mobile devices and social networks on one hand, and the ability to crunch…