Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, ...

Network management tools have come a long way from the early command-line products with arcane, text-based configuration files that kept everyone except the resident (typically Linux) guru in the dark ...

There are a handful of leading commercial toolmakers to help IT detect and respond to system outages and application failures, commonly referred to as "incident management and response," including ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Over the past decade, open-source software has become a transformative force for data ...

Open source software powers nearly every modern application, but with rapid adoption and growing code complexity come real risks. From evolving global regulations to the growing use of AI-generated ...

WhiteSource, a platform that companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Comcast use to secure their open source software components, has raised $75 million in a series D round of funding. Founded in 2011, ...

For many businesses, the world of open source is synonymous with the Linux operating system and perhaps a few well-known applications, such as MySQL or the Apache server. One thing these all have in ...