Elastic, the makers of an open-source search and analytic engine, has settled its trademark lawsuit with Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the latter's use of the term Elasticsearch. The dispute arose ...

Hundreds of Elasticsearch instances have been wiped in the past few hours, in near-identical ransom attacks to those that have hit more than 34,000 unsecured MongoDB databases over the past week.

Open source has never been more popular. It’s also never been more contentious. With hundreds of billions of dollars available to the companies that best turn open source into easy-to-use cloud ...