What's new at Aiven: Q1/2023
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Predictive Maintenance Tools - 7 Types to Check Out
In today’s business landscape, predictive maintenance has emerged as a critical strategy to optimize equipment performance, reduce downtime, and minimize maintenance costs. In this article you will learn about some tools that can be used to simplify the complexity involved with implementing a successful predictive maintenance program.
Data Science vs. Data Analytics Explained: How To Use Both
There is a lot of confusion surrounding the terms "data science" and "data analytics." Some people use them interchangeably, others see them as completely different concepts. In this blog post, we'll demystify the differences between these two terms. We will start by defining each term, followed by the key differences between them, similarities, roles each of them support, as well as uses cases. Read on for a detailed comparison!
Snowflake Monitoring with MetricFire
In today's world, where data plays a huge role in business success, companies must manage and analyze large amounts of information. Data warehousing has become a critical part of business operations to handle this challenge. Snowflake, a top cloud data warehousing platform, provides a scalable, secure, and flexible solution to help businesses adapt to their ever-changing data needs.
Comparing OpenSearch Managed Services
In March of 2022, Elastic decided to close source the most popular log management and analytics solution in the world: the ELK Stack. Millions chose ELK as their logging platform and made it the heart of their troubleshooting operations because it was open source. And suddenly, it wasn’t – leaving many looking for other options. Shortly after, AWS launched OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards as open source alternatives to Elasticsearch and Kibana, respectively.
Announcing: Time-Based, Revocable, Leased - Dynamic Access Credentials for InfluxDB
Today we’re excited to announce the InfluxDB add-on for Ockam Orchestrator. Through the use of the add-on, customers that are using InfluxDB Cloud can use Ockam to improve their security posture by automatically granting uniquely identifiable, least privilege, time-limited credentials for any client that needs to connect to InfluxDB Cloud.
6 Reasons Why Manual Infrastructure Optimization Doesn't Work
IT spend on big data systems in 2023 is forecasted to be $222 billion (Statista.com: Information spending on data center systems worldwide from 2012 to 2023). Actual monetary cost is just one parameter: infrastructure resources, personnel, and the overall time taken to retrieve big data insights push spending even further.
How I fell in love... with Data Governance (no, really)
If just hearing “Data Governance” fills you with dread, confusion or boredom — then you’re doing it wrong. It’s probably your business’ most undervalued area. And, with the right mindset (plus a read through our new eBook), a good data governance programme can transform your organisational approach to data and unlock its value. Stop looking at data governance as a compliance burden. Reimagine this obligation as a catalyst for change instead.
Analytics Plus webinar: The 5-step plan to establish capacity planning for your IT
To stay profitable in these competitive times, organizations need to ensure sustained operations and scale at opportune times. Capacity planning can act as an integral cog in this process. Effective capacity planning helps business leaders ensure uninterrupted and optimal operations and services—elements that are vital for business sustainability and profitability. Capacity planning also sheds crucial insights into organizational shortcomings and cost drains, allowing leaders to course correct and streamline operations.
Redis Geospatial
Redis is a powerful in-memory data store that servers for a variety of use cases such as: caching, real time analytics or even fraud detection. Among the wide range of features, Redis has excellent support for geospatial indexes, let’s discover this in this video.