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Business Intelligence and Log management - Opportunities and challenges

Business intelligence (BI) is all about making sense of huge amounts of data to extract meaningful and actionable insights out of it. Log management tools such as Graylog, instead, are the perfect solution to streamline data collection and analysis, so it’s easy to understand how these two technologies can make sense when they’re coupled together.

Home Assistant Tutorial: A Beginner's Guide to Automation

In this post, we’ll be taking a closer look at Home Assistant, an open source platform for connecting your smart devices at home. We’ll walk through every important section of Home Assistant: dashboards, integrations, add-ons, devices and entities, automation, scripts, and scenes. In addition, we’ll be walking through how to set up your Home Assistant and create automation using Home Assistant’s graphical user interface.

Elevating Banking Excellence: Anodot's Real-Time Monitoring Revolution

In a recent article published by Economic Times on Dec 29, 2023, titled “Banks Told to Explore Dashboard with Real-Time Info on Services,” the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has urged banks to embrace real-time transparency through the creation of an online dashboard. Anodot, a leader in business monitoring, is at the forefront of transforming the banking sector with its advanced real-time business monitoring dashboard designed for internal usage within banks. What does this mean?

Understanding Scalability in Cloud Services - Azure and AWS Face-Off

As businesses expand and adapt to the digital era, the need for scalable cloud services becomes paramount. Scalability—the ability of a system to handle growing workloads—ensures that enterprises can thrive without hardware constraints. Industry leaders such as Azure and AWS have been at the forefront of this evolution, continuously enhancing their platforms to provide seamless scalability.

Time Series Differencing: A Complete Guide

Time difference analysis is a method of analyzing data points at regular time intervals over a set period. However, in time series analysis, we derive crucial information such as the variance of the variables among data points over a period of time. This gives additional information on how the data adapts over time. This can be used to analyze data during different trends at different time intervals.

A Deep Dive into Multi-Model Databases: Hype vs. Reality

In 2009, as the world became increasingly data-driven, organizations began to accumulate vast amounts of data — a period that would later be characterized as the Big Data revolution. While most organizations were used to handling well-structured data in relational databases, this new data was appearing more and more frequently in semi-structured and unstructured data formats.

Webinar Recap: Saving the Holidays with Quix and InfluxDB: The Open Telemetry Anomaly Detection Story

Just in time for your holiday viewing! Learn how to solve real-time time series processing challenges with Quix—the stream processing framework using Kafka and Python—and purpose-built time series database InfluxDB.

5 Best SIEM Tools and How to Choose

Cybersecurity has become something of great concern to the IT world over the last few years. The increase in remote working and the move to cloud-based and e-commerce solutions have opened up many new opportunities for cyber exploits and malware attacks. According to the FBI, the incidence of malware and network attacks, particularly ransomware, on both commercial and home systems has shown a major increase. At a corporate and personal level, ID theft has also increased greatly.

Explore Apache Kafka Tiered Storage

Get an introduction to Apache Kafka® Tiered Storage which enables more effective data management by utilizing two different storage types—local disk and remote cloud storage solutions such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage. This feature offers a tailored approach to data storage, allowing you to allocate frequently accessed data to high-speed local disks while offloading less critical or infrequently accessed data to more cost-effective remote storage solutions. Tiered storage enables you to indefinitely store data on specific topics without running out of space. Once enabled, it is configured per topic, giving you granular control over data storage needs.

Tech Horizons: A Practical Guide for Emerging Data Developers

It's no surprise that the world is becoming increasingly driven by data. We rely on it more and more each day to power our decisions, inform policy, and structure our lives. With the rise of emerging technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, blockchain-based systems, and many other toolsets - navigating this brave new world can seem intimidating or even downright impossible for aspiring tech developers.