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From all of us at Craxel, we wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving! As we reflect on this season of gratitude, we are thankful for our incredible clients, partners, and team who make our journey so rewarding. Wishing you and your loved ones a day filled with joy and connection. #HappyThanksgiving #Thankful #Gratitude #Craxel

Our entire economy, our ability to get food and water, our ability to get energy to stay warm, and our livelihoods are dependent on our digital infrastructure. What happens when these incursions turn into full fledge war? Yet, no matter how much money gets spent on cybersecurity, there is so much attack surface that small vulnerabilities can lead to massive loss. We call this asymmetric risk. We have to be perfect and expend massive resources to do so, while the attackers just have to find the right hole using a small amount of resources. All of this will continue and get worse and worse until we reduce this asymmetric risk. At Craxel, our contribution to mitigating this crisis, which in a war will become life and death, is two fundamental technology breakthroughs. The first, our O(1) multidimensional hash allows real-time observability and connecting the dots at the many petabyte scale needed by U.S. gov't and telecoms to quickly detect penetrations and prevent damage. If you think legacy O(N) technology has any chance, we'll happily walk you through the math and physics. O(N) data analytics isn't fast enough or affordable at these scales, yet people keep pushing that growing data boulder up a hill. In 100 years, hopefully all school age children will understand algorithm complexity at least at a basic level - but we need our decision makers to understand it now. The solution to the U.S. government's data problems and not just in cyber is O(1). The second, our high performance searchable encryption and zero trust capabilities offer a way to reduce the gain that an attacker can achieve when they do find a vulnerability. Our approach uses strong cryptography and the encryption keys are never in the data layer, so if the data layer gets breached, the attacker also has to steal the encryption keys from somewhere else. Finally, secure by design is great and all software developers should try to reduce attack surface, but there is so much legacy code running that isn't going to change for a long time. Just look at the operating systems in use today. While we work to improve software, we need #1 and #2 above. Of course, Craxel's Black Forest is 100% built in a memory safe language and is secure by design.

Today and every day, we honor our #veterans for their courage, dedication, and sacrifice in protecting our freedoms. We are deeply grateful for your service. Happy Veterans Day from all of us at Craxel! #VeteransDay

The Office of the IC Chief Data Officer recently hosted a Distributed Data Roundtable with private sector technical experts to discuss data mesh, data products, and semantics as we design the next-generation data reference architecture for the Intelligence Community.   In today’s data-rich global operating environment, rapid delivery of timely intelligence insights is more critical than ever for national security. Enabling access to high-quality data that fuels technology like AI for responsible, trusted results is a strategic imperative. We are collaborating with industry to implement democratized data, advanced analytics, and sovereign AI at the speed of mission.   Thank you to National Intelligence University for the exceptional venue, and our private sector experts for an engaging, enriching experience! #DataInnovation #TrustedAI #Datacentricty #NationalSecurity Oracle Scale AI Altair Semantic Arts, Inc. Craxel Fluree Stardog Hushmesh Inc. Ocient Kenny Sholes Lori Wade FutureThink Garry Golden

We’re thrilled and honored to be featured by Tradewinds as one of the standout companies delivering breakthrough technology with our Black Forest Reaper™ cybersecurity platform. Black Forest Reaper isn’t just another cybersecurity tool — it’s the superhero your data’s been waiting for. High-speed data ingestion and indexing, holistic cyber defense, time series graphs, real-time threat detection, threat intelligence correlation, and unprecedented price/performance – all at scale – this is the future of cybersecurity technology that is here now and only available in Black Forest Reaper. Who knew cybersecurity could be this exciting? Our patented, state-of-the-art technology is available for immediate procurement by government customers without further competition. DoD and military customers can procure software immediately, either piloting or proceeding to production deployment. Curious to see Black Forest Reaper™ in action? Contact us for a demo or check out our YouTube channel https://lnkd.in/eWXGZxDd to witness the cybersecurity platform of the future that’s ready for you now. #Cybersecurity #TradewindsAI #InformationDominance #Innovation #DoD #DataProtection #DataAtScale #DataSecurity #TimeSeriesGraph #Craxel #BlackForestReaper

I love that AWS posts their prime-day compute metrics because you can extrapolate some interesting numbers about what certain capabilities cost. This one caught my eye. 6,311 Aurora DB instances processed 376 billion transactions (storing almost 3 petabytes) during prime day. That's ~59 million transactions per instance. Conservatively assuming most activity happened during 10 hours of prime day, that's 10.4 million total transactions per second and ~1,654 per second per instance. Average size per transaction based on the storage number is ~8,000 bytes (which seems quite large) and that's ~1/2 a TB in storage per instance. (my apologies if I mess up any of the math or if I use any incorrect assumptions - consider this back of napkin calculation) This Aurora DB cluster provides fast, selective query O(Log N) (I assume using Btree indexes) and ACID transactions. Assuming AWS is really good at pricing their products, we can probably assume that the cost to run this cluster will be similar to the cost to run other sharded clusters of relational DBs large enough to organize 3 petabytes of data with transactional consistency for fast query. All we need to get a rough order of magnitude cost is to guess the instance size and then plug it into AWS' pricing calculator. The cost is going to vary quite a bit by instance type but will be hard to know for sure what instance type they're using. db.r6g.xlarge instances is fairly modest and likely a decent guess (4 VCPU and 32 GB of RAM) - an estimated on-demand cost for 6,311 instances came out to be roughly $2,391,048.57 per month or ~$28 million a year plus storage and IO charges. For us here at Craxel, this gives us a pretty good idea of the cost of indexing 3 petabytes of data using BTrees and keeping the data available for fast query on a sharded cluster of running servers. Hit us up here at Craxel if you would like to hear how our O(1) multi-dimensional indexing algorithm changes the cost structure for organizing petabytes of data for fast query. Thanks AWS for sharing!!!

More exciting news from Craxel! We are thrilled to announce that we have earned our second 'Awardable' status in the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, this time for our revolutionary Black Forest Reaper™ defensive cyber analytics platform.   Black Forest Reaper has been rigorously assessed through complex scoring rubrics and competitive procedures, joining Black Forest Data Platform™ in being immediately available for procurement by government customers without further competition. The DoD CDAO has identified these capabilities as essential to accelerating data analytics and AI within the DoD. We are honored to be recognized among a competitive field of applicants demonstrating innovation, scalability, and impact on DoD missions. Please join us in celebrating this important milestone as we continue to empower the world's largest organizations with unmatched speed and efficiency to quickly extract value from data at scale.   https://lnkd.in/easkhCq7   #TradewindSolutionsMarketplace #TradewindAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning  #DepartmentofDefense #DOD #CDAO #DefenseTech #RealTimeAnalysis #CyberSecurity #InformationAdvantage #TimeSeriesGraph #Technews #Craxel #BlackForestReaper

Very excited to officially announce Craxel's launch of Black Forest Reaper, our defensive cyber analytics platform that operates at extraordinary scale. Our unique breakthrough in computer science for O(1) multidimensional indexing allows us to build time series knowledge graphs in the cloud or at the edge as millions of cyber security data points arrive each second. Now organizations can have real-time observability of their networks with nearly instantaneous correlation against threat intelligence. This unprecedented speed will compress timelines and therefore dramatically improve defensive cyber capabilities. https://lnkd.in/euUX-S3E #cyber #cybersecurity #timeseriesgraph

Craxel is proud to sponsor the Boxes of Basics Summer Charity Classic at Dominion Valley Country Club. A big shoutout to our very own Charles Norman for his incredible efforts in supporting this worthwhile cause! #BoxesOfBasics #DominionValleyCountryClub #CommunitySupport #CharityClassic #GivingBack #CraxelCares 

I am excited to announce that Craxel‘s Black Forest is among the newest “Awardable” products selected for inclusion on #DoD’s Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, a streamlined hub for Department of Defense customers to procure leading-edge artificial intelligence capabilities. Our breakthrough technology was independently evaluated by a team of experts through a rigorous and competitive process and found deserving of this status for our potential impact on U.S. Department of Defense missions. We are excited for this next chapter in our continued growth. Government customers may view our 5-minute video solution on Tradewinds here: https://lnkd.in/ek5egZfS Check out our news release https://lnkd.in/e_fDaZcF or contact us directly. #TradewindSolutionsMarketplace #TradewindAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #DepartmentofDefense #DOD #CDAO #DataAtScale #DataManagement #EnterpriseData #DataInfrastruture #InformationAdvantage #TimeSeriesGraph #Technews #Craxel