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How Operators Build Operational Excellence with Modern Data Platforms Splunk

Enhancing the customer experience and boosting revenue with the power of analytics are key concepts for telecom operators in today’s ultra-competitive business environment. Many telecoms are going through transformation of their system architectures and stacks to change how they operate and manage their day to day operations as well as their strategies and planning for what comes next.

What is Elasticsearch and how are enterprises using it?

What does Netflix, eBay and Walmart have in common? They all use Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is a real-time open-source distributed search and analytics engine built on top of Apache Lucene™, a fulltext search-engine library and developed in Java. Elasticsearch started as a scalable version of the Lucene open-source search framework that uses a structure based on documents instead of tables and schemas and comes with extensive REST APIs for storing and searching the data.

Plotting the International Space Station's Orbit Live Using Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Giraffe

During an InfluxData internal hackathon, I was looking to work on a project that would help me strengthen my Telegraf and Flux skills. I also wanted to use InfluxData’s Giraffe to visualize my project in a React application. After reading Sean Brickley’s blog post on tracking the International Space Station with InfluxDB, I was inspired to build on this idea.

Building Strong Global Partnerships

Despite a halt in travel in 2020, InfluxData made incredible progress reaching users around the world through the new InfluxData Authorized Channel Partner program. The program features a robust ecosystem of distributor and reseller partners that help to support InfluxDB users around the world. In 2020, we welcomed 23 channel partners, including three regional distributors and 20 resellers in the Asia Pacific, EMEA and North American regions.

Introducing Elastic License v2, simplified and more permissive; SSPL remains an option

When we announced our license change for Elasticsearch and Kibana, moving the Apache 2.0-licensed source code to be dual licensed under both the Elastic License and SSPL, we also mentioned we would work closely with the community on a simplified and more permissive version of the Elastic License. I am happy to share the results with you. The Elastic License is already widely used.

What Does a CTO Do When a 60PB Hadoop Cluster Devours the IT Budget?

In 2019, the CTO of a large global bank realized a problem: Their data continued to grow, costs for their Hadoop cluster rapidly escalated, and these costs started eating into their annual IT budget. Moving off of Hadoop, or “lift-and-shift” was out of the question. They needed a way to cap their cost and growth without impacting their ability to remain market competitive.