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Big Data Career Notes for February 2025
It’s that time of month again–time for Big Data Career Notes, a monthly feature where we keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, ne Read more…
Elastic Rolls Out Major Upgrades for Faster and More Efficient Search
Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, has introduced several key enhancements to its platform with the release of Elastic 8.17. The release focuses on performance enhancements, expanded capabilities, and greater ope Read more…
Don’t Believe the Big Database Hype, Stonebraker Warns
How we store and serve data are critical factors in what we can do with data, and today we want to do oh-so much. That big data necessity is the mother of all invention, and over the past 20 years, it has spurred an imme Read more…
Elastic Launches Search AI Lake to Scale Low Latency Search
The rapidly growing scale of data has led to the emergence of data lakes, which offer a centralized repository for the storage of structured and unstructured data at any scale. Data lakes architecture often separates com Read more…
Elastic Looks to Simplify Queries with New Piped Language
Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL), Elastic’s latest offering that introduces a piped query syntax and supports concurrent processing, is being touted by the company as a major leap forward in data querying technolog Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: October 2023 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: August 2023 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: July 2023 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…
Fluentd Rides Wave of Roll-Your-Own Observability
Companies that want to collect gobs of observability data but process the data in multiple places while keeping it free from analytic tool vendor’s proprietary formats may be interested in Fluentd, an open source data Read more…
This Just In
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7, 2025 — Elastic today announced Elastic Observability Logs Essentials (“Logs Essentials”), a new tier within Elastic Cloud Serverless that delivers fast, scalable and cost-effective log analytics powered by Elasticsearch. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30, 2025 — Elastic today announced a major update to the Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL) in Elasticsearch 8.19 and 9.1, bringing advanced data enrichment, improved resilience, and significant performance gains across petabyte-scale environments. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2025 — Elastic has announced the winners and honorees of the 2025 Elastic Excellence Awards. These awards recognize groundbreaking achievements by organizations and individuals that are transforming their industries, communities, and businesses by unlocking the full potential of their data with Elastic’s Search AI platform. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, May 23, 2025 — Elastic has announced the availability of its hybrid search capabilities for Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel project, making Elastic’s vector database the first to feature this capability. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2025 — Elastic has announced that Elasticsearch integrates with the new NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design to provide a recommended vector database for enterprises to build and deploy their own on-premises AI factories. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2025 — Elastic has announced Automatic Migration, a new feature that simplifies the transition from an incumbent SIEM to Elastic Security. Automatic Migration maps existing SIEM detection rules to equivalent Elastic-built rules using semantic search without the need for exact text matches. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, 2025 — Elastic today announced the general availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless on Google Cloud Marketplace. Developers can now quickly scale Elastic’s Security, Observability and Search solutions on Google Cloud without having to manage their own infrastructure. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2025 — Elastic has announced Elasticsearch runs with up to 40% higher indexing throughput on C4A VMs, powered by Google Axion, Google’s first custom Arm-based CPU, compared to previous generations of VMs on Google Cloud. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, 2025 — Elastic announced that the Elasticsearch vector database is now a natively supported information retrieval engine for Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform.
“By integrating Elasticsearch as a native grounding engine in Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform, our joint customers can seamlessly build RAG applications in a single workflow,” said Shay Banon, founder and chief technology officer at Elastic. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2025 — Elastic today announced the general availability of the Elastic Google Cloud Vertex AI platform integration in Elastic Observability.
This integration offers large language model (LLM) observability support for models hosted in Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform, providing insights into costs, token usage, errors, prompts, responses and performance. Read more…