The elevator pitch for this post is that history travels in circles, especially when it comes to laying out how you deploy enterprise applications and databases. Splice Machine's latest announcement ...

Splice Machine says the launch this week of its public beta opens up the Hadoop stack for the first time to a full-featured SQL database, capable of running transactions and analytics simultaneously.

Two young rebellious scientists are told by their employers to halt groundbreaking work that has seen them produce new creatures with medical benefits by splicing together multiple organisms' DNA.