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Written by Maureen Lim - Inbound Team Lead - ITRS Philippines

Exciting new Geneos integration - Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine that is used in a variety of functions in different organizations. It is one of the key big data technologies used in financial services today. It is typically deployed as a cluster of nodes as it is horizontally scalable, i.e. if there is an increase in data to be stored or in search operations, more nodes can be added to distribute the load.

ITRS Group Acquires Leader in Capacity Planning and Management, Sumerian

Deal complements ITRS existing real-time monitoring and investigation to meet customer demand to prevent outages and reduce costs

ITRS Group, the leading provider of real-time monitoring and IT operations analytics to financial services firms, has announced a partnership with MapR, a pioneer in delivering the industry's leading data platform for AI and analytics, both on site and across the cloud. The collaboration will see MapR software integrated with ITRS Geneos.

By Neha Sachan, Presales Consultant at ITRS' Singapore office

Database technologies have constantly evolved in response to changing storage and compute requirements. So far relational databases have dominated the market at a time when the development process followed the waterfall model and fixed schemas were the norm. Now with Agile development, using relational databases pose numerous limitations. NoSQL (NotOnlySQL) databases offer flexibility with dynamic schemas, rapid scaling, faster read write, fault tolerance and therefore quicker time to market.

Written by Loke Balakrishnan, Geneos Product Manager

Much of today’s enterprise technology is built on open source software. This is a growing trend across all industries and Financial Services is no exception. The shift towards more open technology platforms and the acceptance of these technologies within the traditionally more private world of Financial Services has seen many organisations investing in open source technology. The need for big data analytics has contributed to this growth.

Written by Enmanuel Payano, Client Services Analyst at ITRS' New York office

At over 20 years old, Geneos is still as flexible as ever. Our bread and butter is monitoring financial services applications and infrastructure but we are constantly looking to expand the limits of Geneos. I work in the client services team in ITRS’ New York office and as a side-project, I decided to use Geneos to track what is happening in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency world.

Event season in the ITRS offices was kicked off in November by our New York meetup, and will continue now until March. Both Hong Kong and Singapore are gearing up for their meetups on the 23rd and 25th Jan respectively (you can book your place here); and the London event won’t be far behind on February 1st.

Leave Your Ego at The Door – Listening to and Actioning Stakeholder Feedback

Four months ago, we implemented the most far-reaching overhaul of the Geneos documentation in our 21-year history. As part of an iterative plan we’ve committed to deliver to our customers, it focused on improving the ‘consumability’ and usefulness of the Geneos online help.

WHAT IS A COCKPIT?

Among medical, aviation and finance, key industries which affect mankind directly either for life or monetary reasons, aviation has been a front-runner in developing fail-proof technologies using combination of people, processes and technology (ITIL!).

The most visible example of this technological prowess is the aircraft cockpit. A cockpit is a state of the art cabin or flight control area from where the pilot controls the aircraft with the aid of real time indicators and heavily automated instruments.