Elastic launches version 7.16, offers more integration with ServiceNow and AWS
Elastic makes version 7.16 of Elasticsearch available, focusing on an improved platform and integrations with ServiceNow and AWS.
The new version provides capabilities for streamlining processes for obtaining data from any source. These include Elasticsearch and Kibana, as well as the built-in s... Read more
Elastic acquires Swiss continuous profiling startup Optimyze to enhance observability tools
Elastic wants to create a complete set of observability capabilities to integrate into its enterprise search platform. The announcement comes after completing an acquisition of a startup named Optimyze. The startup focuses on continuous profiling.
Optimyze is a three-year-old startup based in Zu... Read more
Elastic acquires build.security to gain authorization policy management capabilities
Less than a year after it raised $6 million on seed funding, build.security is being acquired by Elastic. The Tel-Aviv and Sunnyvale-based startup did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. The deal will close in Elastic's second quarter (FY22), ending October 31, 2021.
Ash Kulkarni, chie... Read more
Amazon announces its own Elasticsearch fork
Amazon has announced that it will be working on its own open-source fork of Elasticsearch, called OpenSearch. The company is doing this after Elasticsearch itself abandoned its Apache licensing model.
Amazon informed us that they started a new search engine project called OpenSearch. Besides Ope... Read more
Elasticsearch 7.12 introduces runtime fields and ARM support
Elastic has announced version 7.12 of its Elasticsearch search engine. The update brings a number of improvements, including support for runtime fields, a new frozen tier for storage and support for the ARM architecture.
An overview of the new features can be found in a blog post from Elastic. T... Read more
250 million records exposed in Microsoft database
A problem with a Microsoft ElasticSearch database has put 250 million users' data on the street. The settings of the database were simply set to 'public' by accident.
The problem was discovered by Bob Diachenko, a security researcher at Security Discovery. Diachenko regularly discovers these kin... Read more
AWS responds to criticism about abuse of open-source software
AWS responds to the criticism it has received regarding the unlawful use of technology by open-source companies. Andi Gutmans, vice president of AWS analytics and ElastiCache, responded to the article that appeared in the New York Times on Monday.
The article described that the cloud computing g... Read more
‘Seven open source companies thought about suing AWS’
In February, leaders of seven open-source companies talked about filing a competition case against Amazon Web Services (AWS). That is what the New York Times writes. This would include MongoDB, a data organisation tool for documents.
According to reports, Amazon regularly copies open source apps... Read more