March 2022 Summaries

Gartner has recognized ChaosSearch as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for Analytics Query Accelerators, a category that focuses on accelerating data lakes' time to value. An analytics query accelerator is software that makes data more accessible and performant for BI and exploratory use cases, commonly deployed with data lakes. AQAs are an emerging data analytics solution, helping enterprises extract value from their data lake initiatives by optimizing diverse data stores associated with data lake, data warehouse, and lakehouse architectures. ChaosSearch differentiates itself in the product category with its unique innovations, including a strong historic focus on log analytics, persistent data storage inside clients' VPCs, optimized data layout, distributed shared memory, materialized views, and GDPR-compliant log analytics. The company provides visualizations via its own interface, Kibana, and Elasticsearch, as well as open APIs for expanded search and SQL access to BI and analytics tools.

Introducing Data Legends: Stories from the IT Trenches, a new podcast that focuses on the challenging, insightful, and often brilliant work of IT, Engineering, and Data leaders to drive digital transformation, maximize the value of their data, and stealthily shape the success of businesses around the world. Each episode features a conversation with a Data Legend about their unique experiences, successes and failures, lessons learned, and battle scars earned along the way as they've navigated the rapidly changing IT and Engineering landscape. The podcast explores topics such as site reliability engineering, DevOps, cloud operations, log analytics, data lakes, data democratization and literacy initiatives, and more. Hosted by ChaosSearch's leadership team, the podcast aims to bring you stories from the IT trenches, sharing insights into the challenges and successes of enterprise data leaders.

Choosing an Analytical Cloud Data Platform is crucial for businesses looking to leverage data analytics to drive business insights. Thomas Hazel and Doug Henschen, experts in the field, shared their insights on trends, strategies, and tech considerations for selecting a cloud data platform. They discussed the evolution of analytical data platforms over the past two decades, highlighting key organizational challenges such as scaling infrastructure, eliminating silos, converging workloads, and driving insights. The webinar covered four major topics: the importance to buyers and organizational challenges, the selection process, recommendations, and providing actionable advice for organizations looking to adopt a cloud data platform. Key takeaways include the need for C-Suite support, budget alignment, ambition level, and existing technology when selecting a platform, as well as the importance of considering cross-functional teams, long-term planning, and versatility in choosing an analytical cloud data platform.

ChaosSearch is a cloud data platform that addresses critical pain points and operational challenges for FinTech companies, enabling them to accelerate application development and streamline their operations in the cloud. The platform delivers search and relational analytics at scale directly in Amazon S3 without data movement, ETL process, or administrative overhead. This allows FinTech companies to capture, analyze, and retain more of their data with significant reductions in time, cost, and complexity. By using ChaosSearch, FinTech companies can overcome challenges such as managing log analytics solutions, streamlining CloudOps, and accelerating application development, ultimately driving innovation and competitiveness in the market.