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See you at Elastic{ON} 2026

Elastic{ON} 2026 is a global practitioner event series touring several major cities and a digital platform from September 2026 through March 2027. The tour focuses on leveraging da…

Open by design: How Elastic supports MOSA, the DoD's Modular Open Systems Approach

Elastic supports the DoD's Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) by providing a data and analytics platform built on widely supported, consensus-based standards and open-source prin…

Why your AI bill tripled while token prices fell 75%

Although token prices have dropped significantly, enterprise AI costs are surging because the shift toward complex, agentic workflows requires multiple reasoning loops and tool cal…

Elastic and Tencent Cloud deepen strategic partnership to power AI-era search foundation

Elastic and Tencent Cloud have deepened their strategic partnership with the launch of the Tencent Cloud Elasticsearch Service (ES) Enterprise Edition to enhance AI-era search capa…

Elastic Stack 9.5.3 released

Elastic Stack version 9.5.3 was officially released on September 3, 2026. Users are encouraged to upgrade from version 9.5.2 to take advantage of the latest bug fixes and improveme…

The security attack that hid inside your observability data

The article argues that maintaining separate platforms for observability and security creates dangerous visibility gaps that attackers exploit, while also causing redundant data co…

Elastic Stack 8.19.21 released

Elastic Stack version 8.19.21 has been released, and users are encouraged to upgrade to this latest version. This update includes important fixes for potential security vulnerabili…

Elastic Stack 9.4.6 released

Elastic Stack 9.4.6 has been released, and users are encouraged to upgrade from version 9.4.5. This update includes important fixes for potential security vulnerabilities, with ful…

Defending against AI-fueled social engineering

AI is enabling attackers to launch highly personalized and scalable social engineering campaigns, such as spear phishing and deepfakes, at a speed and cost that bypass traditional,…

How can agencies unify smart city data to improve public services?

The article explores how smart cities can improve public services by unifying fragmented IT and OT data through Elastic’s integrated architecture. By normalizing diverse data proto…

Machine vs. machine: The new reality of cybersecurity in ANZ

Organizations in Australia and New Zealand are struggling to counter "machine-speed" cyberattacks enabled by frontier AI, as manual defensive processes cannot match the pace of aut…

Forging India's Digital Future: Elastic{ON} Comes to Mumbai

Elastic will host its inaugural Elastic{ON} event in Mumbai on September 30, 2026, focusing on the convergence of search, security, and full-stack observability to power agentic AI…