Happy Texas Independence Day, Longhorns! In 1900, we adopted the following resolution: "Whenever two Texas Exes shall meet on March 2, they all shall sit and break bread and pay tribute to the institution that made their education possible." Learn more → txex.us/TID

We're sitting right in the middle of the largest supply chain crisis to hit the storage and database market in all of modern IT history. As I reflect on what I see from the @VAST_Data perch, two things are very clear: 1. VAST software has now gotten to the scale of adoption that we're driving a significant amount of the world's enterprise flash drives. This year there will only be about ~100EB of enterprise SSDs consumed by customers (source: Gartner) and VAST SW will be managing a significant (xx%) of the market. Exabytes are now commonplace ... and VAST's customers are responsible for buying up much of the world's enterprise SSDs. 2. Customers simply get **more** with VAST. I just looked through our call-home logs of all systems that call home to our remote management service (see below). What did I find? - Average Data Reduction: 3.54 - Mean Data Reduction: 1.77 - Max Data Reduction: 808:1 Add that to world-class erasure code efficiency (2.7% at scale) and our customers can stretch their flash allocation by 2x vs other products. It's not just good for power, space, cooling and budget dollars... VAST's efficiency innovations are a pressure-relief valve on the global supply chain pinch. DM me if you want to learn more.

60 years ago today!!! A Charlie Brown Christmas aired on CBS. Here is the original promo as it aired in 1965. 🎄 🌲🎄☃️🌲🎄🌲☃️🎄🌲🎄☃️🌲🎄🌲

Chris Fowler on Texas being out of the CFB Playoff Picture: “You got teams like Texas, which lost to Ohio State early — took a non-conference game, tough game, won the stat battle, lost on the scoreboard. And they’re going to be penalized for taking that game — that’s not hype and that’s not bias, that’s just the reality.”

Absolute cinema 🤘

Post-game perfection. The Eyes of Texas just hits a little different after a rivalry win 🤘

It’s Lone Star Showdown week, so here’s perhaps the greatest ESPN commercial ever created.

‘Tis the season for Burnt Orange and Light

I-35 for the next 72 hours

3 Things Ultra Successful People Refuse To Do via @forbes forbes.com/sites/jodiecook/2…

That sky at Nationals Park 😍

Today, I want to call special attention to a new @VAST_Data Platform capability that lays testament to the awesome power of VAST's Disaggregated, Shared Everything (DASE) architecture. Almost every data lake, data warehouse and event streaming platform is built upon the shared-nothing architecture popularized by the Google File System in 2003. The east-west traffic created by shared-nothing clusters has made transactional I/O nearly impossible to scale... internal communication overwhelms clusters as they scale. This has created data silos in data pipelines... where events are first captured in a transactional bus and then shipped to some data lake/house. Silos = lost analytics opportunities. VAST's new embarrassingly-parallel architecture eliminates east-west traffic, therefore making it possible to ingest real-time events, database transactions, cross-table change data capture at any level of scale... add servers, scale data services. Today we bring an end to compromise. - Stream real-time events directly into your data warehouse, at up to 100s of millions of events per second - Topics are stored as tables, where new tabular data is columnarized once it rolls off the VAST Data Platform write buffer - Events can be analyzed and correlated against all of the tables in the VAST DataBase using database sorts and indexes... giving customers a unified analytics environment that eliminates the divide between real-time and batch data analytics Today, we essentially eliminate the need for a event streaming platform because VAST's DataBase handles streaming and analytics on the same data at any scale. We're not cutting into a new market category, we're eliminating the category altogether. vastdata.com/blog/announcing…

The first player ever to win @THEPLAYERS back-to-back! 🤘 #HookEm

The VAST DataStore is the unsung hero of the VAST Data Platform. In this video, @VAST_Data CTO Andy Pernsteiner details how the VAST DataStore breaks the tradeoff between performance and capacity through an unstructured foundation for deep learning.

It's day 1 at #DHITS2023 - we're looking forward to seeing everyone, come visit us at booth 310!

Watch VAST Co-Founder, @JeffDenworth, explain the ground-breaking foundation of the @VAST_Data Platform, the Disaggregated, Shared-Everything (DASE) Architecture, & how it empowers the most demanding workloads by providing performance, capacity, scale, resilience, & simplicity.

We’re honored to announce the 2022 #ElasticExcellenceAwards winners! This incredible group of organizations and individuals continue to push the limits of data search, observability, and security with groundbreaking implementations. Congratulations to all! go.es.io/3T1CnHk

Texas Lives Within You, Forever 🤘 #HookEm

Calling all threat researchers! Check out our @elasticseclabs quarterly newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest research findings.

In this quick, step-by-step guide, learn how to build an ecommerce store locator using Elastic Enterprise Search. Watch now → go.es.io/3Y9GSRO