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How to Benchmark Cloud FinOps Effectively

Cloud FinOps is rapidly becoming popular among organizations in today’s digital age due to its ability to help manage financial operations more efficiently. This is because it allows organizations to track, measure, and optimize their cloud spend with greater visibility. It also helps improve operational efficiency by automating numerous financial processes, including billing, budgeting, auditing, and reporting.

OpenSearch vs Elasticsearch: Which One Is Better to Use?

Whenever we start a search consulting project from scratch, the obvious question is: which search engine to use? We’ve talked about Elasticsearch vs Solr before, but here we’ll compare Elasticsearch with its fork, OpenSearch. Chances are, if you need to decide between the two, you’ll be looking at a few dimensions.

Strategize your Azure migration for SQL workloads with Datadog

Migrating an on-prem database to a public cloud comes with a number of benefits, such as no longer needing to manage and maintain physical infrastructure, dynamic scaling, disaster recovery, and overall cost reduction. However, migrating to the cloud can often be a complex and daunting task. For instance, if an organization is a Microsoft shop with teams that rely on SQL Server databases, Azure is a natural fit for its needs.

Predictive Maintenance for Industrial IoT Devices at the Edge

In industrial operations, time is money. The more efficient processes and machinery are, the better it is for business. Providing proactive monitoring and maintenance of industrial machines, however, is not an easy task. This is especially true as these machines become increasingly complex and distributed. It’s not possible to have maintenance crews on site for every asset in a distributed system. The edge is where the physical world meets the digital world.

InfluxData Achieves ISO 27001 Certification

SAN FRANCISCO – March 21, 2023 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced it has received the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification, a globally recognized standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS). The certificate scope comprises the ISMS supporting the operations underlying the InfluxDB database cloud and enterprise offerings. It also includes ISO/IEC 27018:2019 compliance for the protection of personally identifiable information.

Cribl Search 4.1: More Data, More Automation, and a More Intuitive User Interface

It’s been less than 4 months since we released Cribl Search, the first federated query engine focused on observability and security data. The reception has been tremendous. Customers, partners, prospects, and even our internal teams were overjoyed by the initial offering but have been anxiously awaiting the promises of the next release. The wait is over!

How to Get the Current Date and Time in SQL

SQL databases have several functions that reduce the complexity of working with date and time. Using these functions and a date and time type column, you can depend on SQL for the logic to write and read data with date and time. In this post, you’ll learn how to use the SQL date and time functions to get the current date and time.

Create a streaming dataset for Apache Kafka with Docker

Experiencing Apache Kafka without a streaming dataset is impossible, and finding streaming datasets ready to be used with Kafka is quite difficult. This video showcases how you can start creating fake streaming data in minutes using Docker. CHAPTERS ABOUT AIVEN Aiven’s cloud data platform helps your business reach its highest potential by making your data work for you. It provides fully managed open source data infrastructure on all major clouds, helping developers focus on what they do best: innovate and create without worrying about the limitations of technology.