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In today's digital era — where data grows exponentially and becomes increasingly complex — the ability to efficiently search and analyze this vast ocean of information has never been more important. But it's also never been more challenging. It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack but with the added challenge of the needle constantly changing its form. This is where vector search emerges as a game-changer, changing how we interact with large data sets.

The data field is expanding rapidly, with many areas overlapping other rising fields like cybersecurity and AI. As technology advances, the amount of data we generate and collect will continue to grow exponentially. This explosion will continue in 2024, when new developments in data management and security have emerged.

What comes to mind when you hear that an IT component has “five 9s availability”? Five 9s availability of >= 99.999% is the peak metric for IT availability. Five 9s predicts that a measured component — whether it is a server, communication line, app, service, or any other item — will be available at least 99.999% of the time during a specific period.

Becoming an expert in any query language can take years of dedicated study and practice. At Coralogix, however, we believe observability should be accessible to everyone. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our latest innovation (and your new sidekick): the AI Query Assistant. The AI Query Assistant revolutionizes the way you interact with your data.

Cribl Lake is simple, it’s storage, it’s simplified storage to keep large volumes of IT and security data for long retention periods. And now it’s even easier for you to start using Cribl Lake. In addition to Cribl-managed Cloud Worker Groups, cloud customers can now use self-managed Hybrid Worker Groups to send data directly to Cribl Lake. This means all your worker groups, whether hybrid or cloud, can write data to Cribl Lake — all coordinated by your Cribl.Cloud Leader.

To meet customer needs for scale, speed, and precision, IBM partners with Elasticsearch to deliver retrieval augmented generation (RAG) capabilities that can be seamlessly integrated into the IBM watsonx Assistant’s new Conversational Search feature. Customers using IBM watsonx Assistant and watsonx Orchestrate can now build conversational AI assistants grounded on their company data with comprehensive search capabilities with RAG.

At Sumo Logic, we’re committed to helping you scale without breaking your budget. As you may have heard, we recently launched Flex Licensing, a first-of-its-kind economic model that offers free, unlimited log data ingest so different teams can capture and analyze critical data across their enterprise in one place. We’re also committed to tackling related challenges raised by other data sources — like metrics.

"Transformative Solution" says a Director of IT in a $30B+ retailer. "Best Monitoring and Observability Tool > Splunk," is how a software engineer in a software company labels it. These are only a couple of the terms our customers use when describing the value they are getting from Splunk. With these descriptions in mind, we are elated that Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms for the second year in a row in this category.

Think of it as your digital concierge to achieve faster time-to-value IT and security teams face more challenges than ever, with data growing at 28% CAGR and taking numerous shapes and forms. Cribl’s suite of products – Stream, Edge, Search, and Lake – is built on a unified data processing engine specifically designed for IT and security data.