Features

Elastic Upgrades Geospatial Data Tools

Elastic N.V has released a batch of new features to the latest version of its flagship Stack platform, including a visualization tool for geospatial data on the Kibana open source data visualization plugin for Elasticsea Read more…

War Unfolding for Control of Elasticsearch

Amazon Web Services on Monday announced that it's partnering with Netflix and Expedia to champion a new Open Distro for Elasticsearch due to concerns of proprietary code being mixed into the open source Elasticsearch pro Read more…

A Decade Later, Apache Spark Still Going Strong

Don't look now but Apache Spark is about to turn 10 years old. The open source project began quietly at UC Berkeley in 2009 before emerging as an open source project in 2010. For the past five years, Spark has been on an Read more…

Elastic Eyes Security and APM for Expansion Effort

IT administrators have long relied on the Elastic Stack to gain insight into the behavior of their servers and networks. Now the company behind the popular suite of tools is headed up the stack to take on big data challe Read more…

2018: A Big Data Year in Review

As 2018 comes to a close, it's worth taking some time to look back on the major events that occurred this year in the big data, data science, and AI space. There's a lot that occurred – and a lot that we chronicled in Read more…

Why IT Ops Has Become Such a Rich Target for Big Data Analytics

In the business world, we measure what we hope to impact. This leads companies to devise all sorts of metrics from a wide assortment of data. Increasingly, one of the most impactful pieces of data we're collecting -- and Read more…

Elastic IPO Expected to Raise $250M

Elastic went public today on the New York Stock Exchange in what could be one of the big data industry's hottest IPOs of the year. Elastic started selling shares this morning under the ticker symbol ESTC at $36 per sh Read more…

Datanami Reveals Winners of 2018 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

Datanami this week unveiled the winners of the 2018 Reader's Choice Awards, which honors the companies, products, and projects that rose to the top in the big data community this year. Also unveiled were the Editors' Cho Read more…

Searching Elastic’s IPO Filing

Elastic filed paperwork last week to make an initial public offering (IPO) of stock to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ESTC, making it the latest software firm with big data roots to test the Read more…

Lucidworks Puts AI at the Heart of Customer Experience

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are key to delivering high-level experiences that customers now expect, according to Lucidworks CEO Will Hayes, who says it's capable of delivering Google-like experiences as Read more…