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Articles by Brian Bergholm
Principal Product Marketing Manager, Elastic
Brian Bergholm is a principal product marketing manager in the Go-To-Market team at Elastic. He’s a specialist in Elastic Cloud, partner marketing, and hyperscaler marketplaces.
He has spent over 20 years in the tech industry across telecoms, software, and professional services. He most recently spent 15 years at Microsoft in a variety of roles, including global product marketing, sales enablement, launch management, and integrated marketing. During his tenure, he supported numerous launches including Office 365, Windows 10, and Azure Marketplace. He joined Elastic because of the power of search to find the answers that matter.
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Elastic 8.15: Better semantic search, new OTel distribution, SIEM data import
Elastic 8.15 includes enhancements in semantic search, new OTel collector distribution, AI-driven SIEM data onboarding, LLM integrations, additions to cross-cluster search (CCS), and more functionality within the Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL).
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Elastic 8.12: GA of AI Assistant for Observability, Update to Apache Lucene 9.9
Elastic 8.12 includes the GA of the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability, update to Apache Lucene 9.9 with scalar quantization, enhanced machine learning capabilities, CSPM integration for Microsoft Azure, improved Elastic Agent, and more.
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That's a wrap! Looking back on the Elastic and AWS collaboration in 2023
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, except when it’s Elastic recapping AWS re:Invent 2023! As a Diamond sponsor, we enjoyed supporting our partner AWS at this flagship event. We’ve also compiled an Elastic + AWS 2023 year in review.
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Elastic 8.10: Improved cross-cluster search and GA of Elastic AI Assistant for Security
Elastic 8.10 delivers enhancements for cross-cluster search (CCS), GA of Elastic AI Assistant for Security, and the GA of Universal Profiling (Elastic Observability) which provides visibility into infrastructure performance with zero instrumentation.
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Elastic 8.9: Meet the Elastic AI Assistant for Security and ML-powered SIEM
Elastic 8.9 provides faster search performance and increased SIEM capabilities along with the beta of the Elastic AI Assistant, to bolster security teams with generative AI, and the tech preview of Reciprocal Rank Fusion for hybrid search.
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