Cloud data management tools have become essential for businesses and enterprises looking to optimize their data storage, backup, and analytics. These tools help businesses handle growing data lakes or warehouses. In this blog, we’ll explore cloud data management tools, how they work, and why they are vital for modern businesses. We'll cover key functions such as data storage, backup and recovery, and integration and highlight the popular cloud management tools.

One of the first key tenets of cloud computing was that “you own your own availability”, the idea being that the public cloud providers were making infrastructure available to you, and your organization had to decide what to use and how to use it in order to meet your organization’s goals. The cloud providers have no knowledge of your applications or their KPIs.

Global organizations are having increasingly critical discussions around the importance of cyber resiliency, an organization’s ability to withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents. With the frequency of cyberattacks growing 30% since last year and the total estimated fallout of cyber 2024 cyberattacks charted to surpass $9.5 trillion, ensuring effective cyber hygiene and resiliency strategies is more important than ever.

We're excited to announce that BugSplat's integration with Monday.com is now in beta! This powerful combination brings crash reporting and project management together, helping development teams work more efficiently and resolve issues faster.

Elastic Observability 8.15 announces several key capabilities: New and enhanced native OpenTelemetry capabilities: Elastic AI Assistant enhancements: Large language model (LLM) observability for Azure OpenAI: Elastic Observability now provides deep visibility on the usage of the Azure OpenAI Service. The integration includes an out-of-the-box dashboard that summarizes the most relevant aspects of the service usage, including request and error rates, token usage, and chat completion latency.

In 8.15, great search results are even more accessible for our customers. Our latest release brings semantic reranking, additional vector search tools, and more third-party model providers and promotes our native Learning to Rank (LTR) to generally available. And now search is more performant than ever with additional speed and efficiency improvements.

Anthropic is an AI research and development company focused on building reliable and safe artificial intelligence systems. Their flagship product is Claude, an advanced language model and conversational AI assistant known for its strong capabilities in natural language processing, reasoning, and task completion. Anthropic places a particular emphasis on AI safety and ethics, and its models and APIs are used by organizations across various industries to build powerful, safe, and performant AI applications.

As the dust settles from the CrowdStrike outages we reflect on how adopting a heterogeneous IT strategy when adopting technologies can increase your organization’s resilience against outages and mitigate risks.

The quality of developer experience (DevEx) can make or break a development team’s success. But, what are the key trends shaping developer experience in 2024? We dove into the findings from Atlassian’s State of Developer Experience Report 2024, which sheds light on the various aspects that contribute to an optimal DevEx – from efficient tooling and processes to a supportive and inclusive work culture.

Event logs contain critical information and the analysis of these logs will support organizations in the detection of many security incidents, from auditing user access to observing malicious traffic and even isolating monitor rule changes on a firewall. By collecting event logs systematically and analyzing them, organizations can obtain insights into their IT environment for maintaining operational efficiency and security.