Elastic : An advanced Distributed RESTful Search & Analytics Engine
After a long career in the UK Military , Robert Strange is now Senior Director of Solution Architecture at UKMEA Elastic – and he ’ s here to talk about search and security .
Robert Strange started his career as a tank commander in the Army and UK military . He left in 2007 after seven years of service at Tactical command , before moving as a civilian to strategic consultancy at Northward operational headquarters in the UK , before finally arriving at Elastic nearly six years ago to help build out the solutions architecture team .
At its core , Elastic is an advanced , distributed , RESTful search and analytics engine with many features and capabilities . “ At the data core of Elastic is a search engine , this gives us enormous flexibility to ingest vast amounts of data while also presenting that in a way that ’ s relevant and valuable to our users ,” says Robert Strange , Senior Director of Solution Architecture at UKMEA Elastic , “ and it allows them to gain critical insights into their data , and consume the data in a way that is relevant to them , it ’ s about speed to value ”.
Elastic ’ s strategy can be broadly broken down into three parts : the first is data consolidation ; the second is data value ; and the third is concerned with digital culture .
One of the main projects that Elastic are currently working on with the MOD is the provision of cyber protection to deployable headquarters . “ It ’ s a complex problem in that it ’ s both a micro and a macro issue , both local and global ” says Strange , “ and it ’ s important to connect these HQs together across a security matrix .”
“ One of the products that differentiates us is something called ‘ Cross Cluster Search ’, which allows us to take the query to the data - and not centralise the data to query centrally . Moving data around is expensive and problematic . So it allows higher headquarters to aggregate up threats over all Headquarters to provide that macro view over low bandwidth connections .’’
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