An accent made Nikko Jocson’s mom stand out. An immigrant from the Philippines to the US, she spoke differently than his friends’ parents. Now a senior IT support technician, Nikko has learned that her voice helped to define his story.“Sometimes people teased her about her accent, but she was always so proud. She didn’t care. Her accent was her own. I have always looked for places that allow me to have my own accent as well. It hasn’t always been easy,” said Nikko.He began his career in IT when
With the surge of endpoints and growing demands for access to data, public sector organizations have seen an increase in security threats since the onset of the pandemic. Against this backdrop, Elastic gathered industry leaders to learn how to manage these challenges and demands and build a path toward the future. The recent State and Local Government & Education ElasticON Public Sector event showcased the tech solutions that are delivering for constituents, faster. What should organizatio
Elastic's new frozen data tier decouples compute from storage and leverages low-cost object stores such as Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, or Amazon S3 to directly power searches. It provides unlimited scaling of storage while preserving the ability to efficiently query the data without any need to rehydrate it first, making it easier and cheaper to manage data at scale. In this blog post we compare search performance on the new frozen tier with the existing Elasticsearch data tiers, a
Elastic is committed to providing a flexible, balanced home life for our Elasticians. It’s in our Source Code. And part of that Source Code — Home, Dinner — has helped Kathy Chen, visual designer on our in-house design team, to reconnect with her mother’s cooking and her Chinese culture. “When I was a kid my mom used to make dumplings for my packed lunch,” says Kathy. “Other kids would make fun of it. At the time I was embarrassed, but now I appreciate how much effort she put into giving me thos
After a year of accelerated change in the federal industry, the Federal Public Sector event focused on the progress you’ve made, the trends demanding your attention, and the Elastic capabilities that continue to guide federal agencies, offices, and departments towards a search-enabled future. With a theme of Accelerate the mission. Start with search, the ElasticON US Federal event centered around some key takeaways:
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In a recent post we showed you how to get started with the free and open tier of Elastic Observability. Today we'll walk through what you need to do to expand your deployment so you can start gathering metrics from application performance monitoring (APM), or "tracing" data in your observability cluster, for free. What is APM?Application performance monitoring lets you see where your applications spend their time, what they are doing, what other applications or services they are calling, and wha
Last week we covered the essentials of event logging: Ensuring that all your systems are writing logs about the important events or activities occurring on them. This week we will cover the essentials of centrally collecting these Event Logs on a Window Event Collector (WEC) server, which then forwards all logs to Elastic Security. WEF and WEC Modern versions of Windows include the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) services that implement the WS-Management (WSman) protocol, and just to add to t
What does a career journey into the inside sales team look like at Elastic? We talked to two of our own — Tom Wilde and Jan Kumorowicz — about moving from user success manager roles into cloud sales, and what it’s like to be at the start of a customer’s journey.Tom Wilde, inside cloud account executiveAfter about two years as a user success manager, I began to master the art of outbound sales — cold calling potential enterprise customers, working to find new leads via LinkedIn, and having proof-
Log exploration and analysis is a key step in troubleshooting performance issues in IT environments — from understanding application slow downs to investigating misbehaving containers. Did you get an alert that heap usage is spiking on a specific server? A quick search of the logs filtered from that host shows that cache misses started around the same time as the initial spike. Digging into the metadata (date and version) of the highlighted logs from that time period show us that this was likely
Launched in May 2020, the Elastic for students and educators program provides the resources and support necessary to bring our products and solutions into classrooms around the world. Whether it’s through provisioning Elastic Cloud accounts for students to use during their course, extending access to premium features like machine learning to propel research, or working with universities to design partnership programs to help prepare students for their future careers, Elastic is committ