Streamline your workflow with ESQL enhance data analysis with real-time insights, and speed up aggregations and visualizations Key Features Apply ESQL efficiently in analytics, observability, and cybersecurity Optimize performance and scalability for high-demand environments Discover how to visualize and debug ESQL queries Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book Description Built to simplify high-scale data analytics in Elasticsearch, this practical guide will take you from foundational concepts to advanced applications across search, observability, and security. It will help you overcome common challenges such as efficiently querying large datasets, applying advanced analytics without deep prior knowledge, and resolving for a unique and consolidated query language. Written by senior experts at Elastic with extensive field experience, this book delivers actionable guidance rooted in solving today’s data challenges at scale. After introducing ESQL and its architecture, the chapters explore real-world applications across various domains, including analytics, raw log analysis, observability, and cybersecurity. Advanced topics such as scaling, optimization, and future developments are also covered to help you maximize your ESQL capabilities. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to leverage ESQL for comprehensive data management and analysis, optimizing your workflows and enhancing your productivity with Elasticsearch. What you will learn Gain a solid understanding of ESQL and its architecture Use ESQL for data analysis and performance monitoring Apply ESQL in cybersecurity for threat detection and incident response Find out how to perform advanced searches using ESQL Prepare for future ESQL developments Showcase ESQL in action through real-world, persona-driven use cases Who this book is for If you’re an Elasticsearch user, this book is essential for your growth. Whether you’re a data analyst looking to build analytics on top of Elasticsearch, an SRE monitoring the health of your IT system, or a cybersecurity analyst, this book will give you a complete understanding of how ESQL is built and used. Additionally, database administrators, business intelligence professionals, and operational intelligence professionals will find this book invaluable. Even with a beginner-level knowledge of Elasticsearch, you’ll be able to get started and make the most of this comprehensive guide.

Security teams rely on telemetry—the continuous stream of logs, events, metrics, and signals that reveal what’s happening across systems, endpoints, and cloud services. But that data doesn’t organize itself. It has to be collected, normalized, enriched, and secured before it becomes useful. That’s where data engineering comes in. In this hands-on guide, cybersecurity engineer James Bonifield teaches you how to design and build scalable, secure data pipelines using free, open source tools such as Filebeat, Logstash, Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch and more. You’ll learn how to collect telemetry from Windows including Sysmon and PowerShell events, Linux files and syslog, and streaming data from network and security appliances. You’ll then transform it into structured formats, secure it in transit, and automate your deployments using Ansible. You’ll also learn how to: Encrypt and secure data in transit using TLS and SSH Centrally manage code and configuration files using Git Transform messy logs into structured events Enrich data with threat intelligence using Redis and Memcached Stream and centralize data at scale with Kafka Automate with Ansible for repeatable deployments Whether you’re building a pipeline on a tight budget or deploying an enterprise-scale system, this book shows you how to centralize your security data, support real-time detection, and lay the groundwork for incident response and long-term forensics.

A practical introduction to data engineering on the powerful Snowflake cloud data platform. Data engineers create the pipelines that ingest raw data, transform it, and funnel it to the analysts and professionals who need it. The Snowflake cloud data platform provides a suite of productivity-focused tools and features that simplify building and maintaining data pipelines. In Snowflake Data Engineering, Snowflake Data Superhero Maja Ferle shows you how to get started. In Snowflake Data Engineering you will learn how to: Ingest data into Snowflake from both cloud and local file systems Transform data using functions, stored procedures, and SQL Orchestrate data pipelines with streams and tasks, and monitor their execution Use Snowpark to run Python code in your pipelines Deploy Snowflake objects and code using continuous integration principles Optimize performance and costs when ingesting data into Snowflake Snowflake Data Engineering reveals how Snowflake makes it easy to work with unstructured data, set up continuous ingestion with Snowpipe, and keep your data safe and secure with best-in-class data governance features. Along the way, you’ll practice the most important data engineering tasks as you work through relevant hands-on examples. Throughout, author Maja Ferle shares design tips drawn from her years of experience to ensure your pipeline follows the best practices of software engineering, security, and data governance. About the Technology Pipelines that ingest and transform raw data are the lifeblood of business analytics, and data engineers rely on Snowflake to help them deliver those pipelines efficiently. Snowflake is a full-service cloud-based platform that handles everything from near-infinite storage, fast elastic compute services, inbuilt AI/ML capabilities like vector search, text-to-SQL, code generation, and more. This book gives you what you need to create effective data pipelines on the Snowflake platform. About the Book Snowflake Data Engineering guides you skill-by-skill through accomplishing on-the-job data engineering tasks using Snowflake. You’ll start by building your first simple pipeline and then expand it by adding increasingly powerful features, including data governance and security, adding CI/CD into your pipelines, and even augmenting data with generative AI. You’ll be amazed how far you can go in just a few short chapters! What's Inside Ingest data from the cloud, APIs, or Snowflake Marketplace Orchestrate data pipelines with streams and tasks Optimize performance and cost About the Reader For software developers and data analysts. Readers should know the basics of SQL and the Cloud. About the Author Maja Ferle is a Snowflake Subject Matter Expert and a Snowflake Data Superhero who holds the SnowPro Advanced Data Engineer and the SnowPro Advanced Data Analyst certifications. Quotes An incredible guide for going from zero to production with Snowflake. - Doyle Turner, Microsoft A must-have if you’re looking to excel in the field of data engineering. - Isabella Renzetti, Data Analytics Consultant & Trainer Masterful! Unlocks the true potential of Snowflake for modern data engineers. - Shankar Narayanan, Microsoft Valuable insights will enhance your data engineering skills and lead to cost-effective solutions. A must read! - Frédéric L’Anglais, Maxa Comprehensive, up-to-date and packed with real-life code examples. - Albert Nogués, Danone

Unlock the potential of the Elastic Stack with the "Elastic Stack 8.x Cookbook." This book provides over 80 hands-on recipes, guiding you through ingesting, processing, and visualizing data using Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and more. You'll also explore advanced features like machine learning and observability to create data-driven applications with ease. What this Book will help me do Implement a robust workflow for ingesting, transforming, and visualizing diverse datasets. Utilize Kibana to create insightful dashboards and visual analytics. Leverage Elastic Stack's AI capabilities, such as natural language processing and machine learning. Develop search solutions and integrate advanced features like vector search. Monitor and optimize your Elastic Stack deployments for performance and security. Author(s) Huage Chen and Yazid Akadiri are experienced professionals in the field of Elastic Stack. They bring years of practical experience in data engineering, observability, and software development. Huage and Yazid aim to provide a clear, practical pathway for both beginners and experienced users to get the most out of the Elastic Stack's capabilities. Who is it for? This book is perfect for developers, data engineers, and observability practitioners looking to harness the power of Elastic Stack. It caters to both beginners and experts, providing clear instructions to help readers understand and implement powerful data solutions. If you're working with search applications, data analysis, or system observability, this book is an ideal resource.

Kibana 8.x - A Quick Start Guide to Data Analysis is an essential resource for anyone wanting to harness the robust capabilities of Kibana to analyze, visualize, and make sense of their data. Through clear explanations and practical exercises, this guide breaks down topics like creating dashboards, exploring datasets, and configuring Kibana's powerful features. What this Book will help me do Understand Kibana's interface and functionalities to manage Elasticsearch data. Learn how to create intuitive visualizations and customize dashboards. Explore features such as data discovery and real-time updates for analytics. Optimize and query datasets using ESQL and detailed analytics techniques. Master the process of embedding dashboards and exporting insights. Author(s) None Shah is an experienced data analytics professional with a deep understanding of the Elastic Stack, including Kibana and Elasticsearch. Having spent years working on big data projects, Shah is dedicated to helping technologists turn data into actionable insights. Her writing aims to simplify complex concepts into achievable learning milestones. Who is it for? This book is ideal for data analysts, data engineers, and anyone working extensively with Elasticsearch datasets. If you aim to gain hands-on experience with building interactive dashboards and visualizing data trends, this book is tailored for you. A foundational understanding of Elasticsearch would be beneficial but is not strictly required. Perfect for advancing decision-making with data insights.

Learn Grafana 10.x is your essential guide to mastering the art of data visualization and monitoring through interactive dashboards. Whether you're starting from scratch or updating your knowledge to Grafana 10.x, this book walks you through installation, implementation, data transformation, and effective visualization techniques. What this Book will help me do Install and configure Grafana 10.x for real-time data visualization and analytics. Create and manage insightful dashboards with Grafana's enhanced features. Integrate Grafana with diverse data sources such as Prometheus, InfluxDB, and Elasticsearch. Set up dynamic templated dashboards and alerting systems for proactive monitoring. Implement Grafana's user authentication mechanisms for enhanced security. Author(s) None Salituro is a seasoned expert in data analytics and observability platforms with extensive experience working with time-series data using Grafana. Their practical teaching approach and passion for sharing insights make this book an invaluable resource for both newcomers and experienced users. Who is it for? This book is perfect for business analysts, data visualization enthusiasts, and developers interested in analyzing and monitoring time-series data. Whether you're a newcomer or have some background knowledge, this book offers accessible guidance and advanced tips suitable for all levels. If you're aiming to efficiently build and utilize Grafana dashboards, this is the book for you.

Build powerful, production-ready search applications using the incredible features of Elasticsearch. In Elasticsearch in Action, Second Edition you will discover: Architecture, concepts, and fundamentals of Elasticsearch Installing, configuring, and running Elasticsearch and Kibana Creating an index with custom settings Data types, mapping fundamentals, and templates Fundamentals of text analysis and working with text analyzers Indexing, deleting, and updating documents Indexing data in bulk, and reindexing and aliasing operations Learning search concepts, relevancy scores, and similarity algorithms Elasticsearch in Action, Second Edition teaches you to build scalable search applications using Elasticsearch. This completely new edition explores Elasticsearch fundamentals from the ground up. You’ll deep dive into design principles, search architectures, and Elasticsearch’s essential APIs. Every chapter is clearly illustrated with diagrams and hands-on examples. You’ll even explore real-world use cases for full text search, data visualizations, and machine learning. Plus, its comprehensive nature means you’ll keep coming back to the book as a handy reference! About the Technology Create fully professional-grade search engines with Elasticsearch and Kibana! Rewritten for the latest version of Elasticsearch, this practical book explores Elasticsearch’s high-level architecture, reveals infrastructure patterns, and walks through the search and analytics capabilities of numerous Elasticsearch APIs. About the Book Elasticsearch in Action, Second Edition teaches you how to add modern search features to websites and applications using Elasticsearch 8. In it, you’ll quickly progress from the basics of installation and configuring clusters, to indexing documents, advanced aggregations, and putting your servers into production. You’ll especially appreciate the mix of technical detail with techniques for designing great search experiences. What's Inside Understanding search architecture Full text and term-level search queries Analytics and aggregations High-level visualizations in Kibana Configure, scale, and tune clusters About the Reader For application developers comfortable with scripting and command-line applications. About the Author Madhusudhan Konda is a full-stack lead engineer, architect, mentor, and conference speaker. He delivers live online training on Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack. Quotes Madhu’s passion comes across in the depth and breadth of this book, the enthusiastic tone, and the hands-on examples. I hope you will take what you have read and put it ‘in action’. - From the Foreword by Shay Banon, Founder of Elasticsearch Practical and well-written. A great starting point for beginners and a comprehensive guide for more experienced professionals. - Simona Russo, Serendipity The author’s excitement is evident from the first few paragraphs. Couple that with extensive experience and technical prowess, and you have an instant classic. - Herodotos Koukkides and Semi Koen, Global Japanese Financial Institution

The book "Vector Search for Practitioners with Elastic" provides a comprehensive guide to leveraging vector search technology within Elastic for applications in NLP, cybersecurity, and observability. By exploring practical examples and advanced techniques, this book teaches you how to optimize and implement vector search to address complex challenges in modern data management. What this Book will help me do Gain a deep understanding of implementing vector search with Elastic. Learn techniques to optimize vector data storage and retrieval for practical applications. Understand how to apply vector search for image similarity in Elastic. Discover methods for utilizing vector search for security and observability enhancements. Develop skills to integrate modern NLP tools with vector databases and Elastic. Author(s) Bahaaldine Azarmi, with his extensive experience in Elastic and NLP technologies, brings a practitioner's insight into the world of vector search. Co-author None Vestal contributes expertise in observability and system optimization. Together, they deliver practical and actionable knowledge in a clear and approachable manner. Who is it for? This book is designed for data professionals seeking to deepen their expertise in vector search and Elastic technologies. It is ideal for individuals in observability, search technology, or cybersecurity roles. If you have foundational knowledge in machine learning models, Python, and Elastic, this book will enable you to effectively utilize vector search in your projects.

This IBM® Redpaper Redbookspublication provides an overview of the IBM Elastic Storage® Server (IBM ESS) and IBM Elastic Storage System (also IBM ESS). These scalable, high-performance data and file management solution, are built on IBM Spectrum® Scale technology. Providing reliability, performance, and scalability, IBM ESS can be implemented for a range of diverse requirements. The latest IBM ESS 3500 is the most innovative system that provides investment protection to expand or build a new Global Data Platform and use current storage. The system allows enhanced, non-disruptive upgrades to grow from flash to hybrid or from hard disk drives (HDDs) to hybrid. IBM ESS can scale up or out with two different storage mediums in the environment, and it is ready for technologies like 200 Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand NDR-200 connectivity. This publication helps you to understand the solution and its architecture. It describes ordering the best solution for your environment, planning the installation and integration of the solution into your environment, and correctly maintaining your solution. The solution is created from the following combination of physical and logical components: Hardware Operating system Storage Network Applications Knowledge of the IBM Elastic Storage Server and IBM Elastic Storage System components is key for planning an environment. This paper is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT specialists) who are responsible for delivering cost-effective cloud services and big data solutions. The content of this paper can help you to uncover insights among client's data so that you can take appropriate actions to optimize business results, product development, and scientific discoveries.

"Elasticsearch 8.x Cookbook" is your go-to resource for harnessing the full potential of Elasticsearch 8. This book provides over 180 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently implement, customize, and scale Elasticsearch solutions in your enterprise. Whether you're handling complex queries, analytics, or cluster management, you'll find practical insights to enhance your capabilities. What this Book will help me do Understand the advanced features of Elasticsearch 8.x, including X-Pack, for improving functionality and security. Master advanced indexing and query techniques to perform efficient and scalable data operations. Implement and manage Elasticsearch clusters effectively including monitoring performance via Kibana. Integrate Elasticsearch seamlessly into Java, Scala, Python, and big data environments. Develop custom plugins and extend Elasticsearch to meet unique project requirements. Author(s) Alberto Paro is a seasoned Elasticsearch expert with years of experience in search technologies and enterprise solution development. As a professional developer and consultant, he has worked with numerous organizations to implement Elasticsearch at scale. Alberto brings his deep technical knowledge and hands-on approach to this book, ensuring readers gain practical insights and skills. Who is it for? This book is perfect for software engineers, data professionals, and developers working with Elasticsearch in enterprise environments. If you're seeking to advance your Elasticsearch knowledge, enhance your query-writing abilities, or seek to integrate it into big data workflows, this book will be invaluable. Regardless of whether you're deploying Elasticsearch in e-commerce, applications, or for analytics, you'll find the content purposeful and engaging.

Discover how to harness the power of the Elastic Stack 8.0 to manage, analyze, and secure complex data environments. You will learn to combine components such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and more to build scalable and effective solutions for your organization. By focusing on hands-on implementations, this book ensures you can apply your knowledge to real-world use cases. What this Book will help me do Set up and manage Elasticsearch clusters tailored to various architecture scenarios. Utilize Logstash and Elastic Agent to ingest and process diverse data sources efficiently. Create interactive dashboards and data models in Kibana, enabling business intelligence insights. Implement secure and effective search infrastructures for enterprise applications. Deploy Elastic SIEM to fortify your organization's security against modern cybersecurity threats. Author(s) Asjad Athick is a seasoned technologist and author with expertise in developing scalable data solutions. With years of experience working with the Elastic Stack, Asjad brings a pragmatic approach to teaching complex architectures. His dedication to explaining technical concepts in an accessible manner makes this book a valuable resource for learners. Who is it for? This book is ideal for developers seeking practical knowledge in search, observability, and security solutions using Elastic Stack. Solutions architects who aim to design scalable data platforms will also benefit greatly. Even tech leads or managers keen to understand the Elastic Stack's impact on their operations will find the insights valuable. No prior experience with Elastic Stack is needed.

The IBM® TS4500 (TS4500) tape library is a next-generation tape solution that offers higher storage density and better integrated management than previous solutions. This IBM Redbooks® publication gives you a close-up view of the new IBM TS4500 tape library. In the TS4500, IBM delivers the density that today's and tomorrow's data growth requires. It has the cost-effectiveness and the manageability to grow with business data needs, while you preserve investments in IBM tape library products. Now, you can achieve a low per-terabyte cost and high density, with up to 13 PB of data (up to 39 PB compressed) in a single 10 square-foot library by using LTO Ultrium 9 cartridges or 11 PB with 3592 cartridges. The TS4500 offers the following benefits: Support of the IBM Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 9 tape drive: Store up to 1.04 EB 2.5:1 compressed per library with IBM LTO 9 cartridges. High availability: Dual active accessors with integrated service bays reduce inactive service space by 40%. The Elastic Capacity option can be used to eliminate inactive service space. Flexibility to grow: The TS4500 library can grow from the right side and the left side of the first L frame because models can be placed in any active position. Increased capacity: The TS4500 can grow from a single L frame up to another 17 expansion frames with a capacity of over 23,000 cartridges. High-density (HD) generation 1 frames from the TS3500 library can be redeployed in a TS4500. Capacity on demand (CoD): CoD is supported through entry-level, intermediate, and base-capacity configurations. Advanced Library Management System (ALMS): ALMS supports dynamic storage management, which enables users to create and change logical libraries and configure any drive for any logical library. Support for IBM TS1160 while also supporting TS1155, TS1150, and TS1140 tape drive. The TS1160 gives organizations an easy way to deliver fast access to data, improve security, and provide long-term retention, all at a lower cost than disk solutions. The TS1160 offers high-performance, flexible data storage with support for data encryption. Also, this enhanced fifth-generation drive can help protect investments in tape automation by offering compatibility with existing automation. Store up to 1.05 EB 3:1 compressed per library with IBM 3592 cartridges Integrated TS7700 back-end Fibre Channel (FC) switches are available. Up to four library-managed encryption (LME) key paths per logical library are available. This book describes the TS4500 components, feature codes, specifications, supported tape drives, encryption, new integrated management console (IMC), command-line interface (CLI), and REST over SCSI (RoS) to obtain status information about library components. You learn how to accomplish the following tasks: Improve storage density with increased expansion frame capacity up to 2.4 times, and support 33% more tape drives per frame

Globally available resources have become the status quo. They're accessible, distributed, and resilient. Our traditional SQL database options haven't kept up. Centralized SQL databases, even those with read replicas in the cloud, put all the transactional load on a central system. The further away that a transaction happens from the user, the more the user experience suffers. If the transactional data powering the application is greatly slowed down, fast-loading web pages mean nothing. In this report, Paul Modderman, Jim Walker, and Charles Custer explain how distributed SQL fits all applications and eliminates complex challenges like sharding from traditional RDBMS systems. You'll learn how distributed SQL databases can reach global scale without introducing the consistency trade-offs found in NoSQL solutions. These databases come to life through cloud computing, while legacy databases simply can't rise to meet the elastic and ubiquitous new paradigm. You'll learn: Key concepts driving this new technology, including the CAP theorem, the Raft consensus algorithm, multiversion concurrency control, and Google Spanner How distributed SQL databases meet enterprise requirements, including management, security, integration, and Everything as a Service (XaaS) The impact that distributed SQL has already made in the telecom, retail, and gaming industries Why serverless computing is an ideal fit for distributed SQL How distributed SQL can help you expand your company's strategic plan

With Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), you can make a subset of a host's memory directly available to a remote host. RDMA is available on standard Ethernet-based networks by using the RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) interface. The RoCE network protocol is an industry-standard initiative by the InfiniBand Trade Association. This IBM® Redpaper publication describes how to set up RoCE to use within an IBM Spectrum® Scale cluster and IBM Elastic Storage® Systems (ESSs). This book is targeted at technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) who are responsible for delivering cost-effective storage solutions with IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM ESSs.

Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This revised third edition--updated for Cassandra 4.0 and new developments in the Cassandra ecosystem, including deployments in Kubernetes with K8ssandra--provides technical details and practical examples to help you put this database to work in a production environment. Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra's nonrelational design, with special attention to data modeling. Developers, DBAs, and application architects looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof an application will learn how to harness Cassandra's speed and flexibility. Understand Cassandra's distributed and decentralized structure Use the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and cqlsh (the CQL shell) Create a working data model and compare it with an equivalent relational model Design and develop applications using client drivers Explore cluster topology and learn how nodes exchange data Maintain a high level of performance in your cluster Deploy Cassandra onsite, in the cloud, or with Docker and Kubernetes Integrate Cassandra with Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Solr, and Lucene

The IBM® TS4500 (TS4500) tape library is a next-generation tape solution that offers higher storage density and better integrated management than previous solutions. This IBM Redbooks® publication gives you a close-up view of the new IBM TS4500 tape library. In the TS4500, IBM delivers the density that today's and tomorrow's data growth requires. It has the cost-effectiveness and the manageability to grow with business data needs, while you preserve investments in IBM tape library products. Now, you can achieve a low cost per terabyte (TB) and a high TB density per square foot because the TS4500 can store up to 11 petabytes (PB) of uncompressed data in a single frame library or scale up to 2 PB per square foot to over 350 PB. The TS4500 offers the following benefits: High availability: Dual active accessors with integrated service bays reduce inactive service space by 40%. The Elastic Capacity option can be used to eliminate inactive service space. Flexibility to grow: The TS4500 library can grow from the right side and the left side of the first L frame because models can be placed in any active position. Increased capacity: The TS4500 can grow from a single L frame up to another 17 expansion frames with a capacity of over 23,000 cartridges. High-density (HD) generation 1 frames from the TS3500 library can be redeployed in a TS4500. Capacity on demand (CoD): CoD is supported through entry-level, intermediate, and base-capacity configurations. Advanced Library Management System (ALMS): ALMS supports dynamic storage management, which enables users to create and change logical libraries and configure any drive for any logical library. Support for IBM TS1160 while also supporting TS1155, TS1150, and TS1140 tape drive: The TS1160 gives organizations an easy way to deliver fast access to data, improve security, and provide long-term retention, all at a lower cost than disk solutions. The TS1160 offers high-performance, flexible data storage with support for data encryption. Also, this enhanced fifth-generation drive can help protect investments in tape automation by offering compatibility with existing automation. The TS1160 Tape Drive Model 60E delivers a dual 10 Gb or 25 Gb Ethernet host attachment interface that is optimized for cloud-based and hyperscale environments. The TS1160 Tape Drive Model 60F delivers a native data rate of 400 MBps, the same load/ready, locate speeds, and access times as the TS1155, and includes dual-port 16 Gb Fibre Channel support. Support of the IBM Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 8 tape drive: The LTO Ultrium 8 offering represents significant improvements in capacity, performance, and reliability over the previous generation, LTO Ultrium 7, while still protecting your investment in the previous technology. Support of LTO 8 Type M cartridge (m8): The LTO Program introduced a new capability with LTO-8 drives. The ability of the LTO-8 drive to write 9 TB on a brand new LTO-7 cartridge instead of 6 TB as specified by the LTO-7 format. Such a cartridge is called an LTO-7 initialized LTO-8 Type M cartridge. Integrated TS7700 back-end Fibre Channel (FC) switches are available. Up to four library-managed encryption (LME) key paths per logical library are available. This book describes the TS4500 components, feature codes, specifications, supported tape drives, encryption, new integrated management console (IMC), command-line interface (CLI), and REST over SCSI (RoS) to obtain status information about library components. October 2020 - Added support for the 3592 model 60S tape drive that provides a dual-port 12 Gb SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) interface for host attachment.

This IBM® Redbooks publication introduces and describes the IBM Elastic Storage® Server 3000 (ESS 3000) as a scalable, high-performance data and file management solution. The solution is built on proven IBM Spectrum® Scale technology, formerly IBM General Parallel File System (IBM GPFS). IBM Elastic Storage System 3000 is an all-Flash array platform. This storage platform uses NVMe-attached drives in ESS 3000 to provide significant performance improvements as compared to SAS-attached flash drives. This book provides a technical overview of the ESS 3000 solution and helps you to plan the installation of the environment. We also explain the use cases where we believe it fits best. Our goal is to position this book as the starting point document for customers that would use ESS 3000 as part of their IBM Spectrum Scale setups. This book is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) who are responsible for delivering cost-effective storage solutions with ESS 3000.

This IBM® Redpaper® publication is intended to facilitate the deployment and configuration of the IBM Spectrum® Scale based high-performance storage solutions for the scalable data and AI solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Configuration, testing results, and tuning guidelines for running the IBM Spectrum Scale based high-performance storage solutions for the data and AI workloads on AWS are the focus areas of the paper. The LAB Validation was conducted with the Red Hat Linux nodes to IBM Spectrum Scale by using the various Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. Simultaneous workloads are simulated across multiple Amazon EC2 nodes running with Red Hat Linux to determine scalability against the IBM Spectrum Scale clustered file system. Solution architecture, configuration details, and performance tuning demonstrate how to maximize data and AI application performance with IBM Spectrum Scale on AWS.

Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration is a comprehensive guide to mastering data management with Azure's managed database services. Packed with real-world exercises and updated to cover the latest Azure features, this book provides actionable insights into migration, performance tuning, scaling, and securing Azure SQL databases. What this Book will help me do Master the configuration and pricing options for Azure SQL databases to make cost-effective choices. Learn the processes to provision new SQL databases or migrate existing on-premises SQL databases to Azure. Acquire skills in implementing high availability and disaster recovery for ensuring data resilience. Understand the strategies for monitoring, tuning, and optimizing the performance of Azure SQL databases. Discover techniques for scaling uses through elastic pools and securing databases comprehensively. Author(s) Ahmad Osama and Shashikant Shakya are experienced professionals in SQL Server and Azure SQL technologies. With decades of combined experience in database administration and cloud computing, they bring a depth of understanding to the content of this book. Their hands-on teaching approach is evident in the practical exercises and real-world scenarios included. Who is it for? This book is specifically tailored for database administrators, developers, and application developers looking to leverage Azure SQL databases. If you are tasked with migrating applications to the cloud or ensuring top performance and resilience for cloud databases, you will find this book highly valuable. Prior experience with on-premises SQL services will help contextualize the content, making it suitable for professionals with intermediate SQL experience. Readers aiming to deepen their Azure SQL expertise will also greatly benefit.

High-speed I/O workloads are moving away from the SAN to Ethernet and IBM® Spectrum Scale is pushing the network limits. The IBM Spectrum® Scale team discovered that many infrastructure Ethernet networks that were used for years to support various applications are not designed to provide a high-performance data path concurrently to many clients from many servers. IBM Spectrum Scale is not the first product to use Ethernet for storage access. Technologies, such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), scale out NAS, and IP connected storage (iSCSI and others) use Ethernet though IBM Spectrum Scale as the leader in parallel I/O performance, which provides the best performance and value when used on a high-performance network. This IBM Redpaper publication is based on lessons that were learned in the field by deploying IBM Spectrum Scale on Ethernet and InfiniBand networks. This IBM Redpaper® publication answers several questions, such as, "How can I prepare my network for high performance storage?", "How do I know when I am ready?", and "How can I tell what is wrong?" when deploying IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Elastic Storage® Server (ESS). This document can help IT architects get the design correct from the beginning of the process. It also can help the IBM Spectrum Scale administrator work effectively with the networking team to quickly resolve issues.