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InformationWeek editors and judges picked Splunk as the Best of Interop for Network Management.
Catch it all here!
Splunk for Change Management, Splunk for Windows Management and Splunk for PCI are now available for download on SplunkBase.
Splunk is a free download that installs in less than 5 minutes and uninstalls without a trace by deleting just one directory.
Sharpening Stones and Walking on Coals
A typical evolutionary path for event and log management in an organization runs like this: paleolithic admin uses just eyes and brain to review logs, looking for evidence of misbehavior, misconfiguration, and mischance; crafty neolithic admin cleverly adds scripts to the mix and automates as much of the review as possible; later, the tools come Read more »
IT Search - A New Approach to Payment Card Industy (PCI) Compliance
The payment card industry data security standard, PCI DSS for short, was developed by the credit card industry to address data theft. The standard consists of twelve security requirement. Anything from traffic policies to requirements around anti virus software are covered by the standard. If you are a company that does more than 20.000 Read more »
Determinism vs. Indeterminism
My last posts were related to Grissom and the adventures of an IT CSI. An interesting aspect of being an IT CSI is that you’re always forced to reconstruct the crime scene based on clues. In some cases, it’s a slam dunk - gun in hand; GSR on hand; bullet through the head; and, no apparent means of entry: suicide. Similarly, the IT CSI may Read more »
New Splunk Apps Launch at Interop and MMS
This week we were rolling in Las Vegas with Interop at one end of the strip and the Microsoft Management Summit at the other end. At Interop we launched the Splunk for Change Management app. And at MMS the Splunk for Windows Management app made it's debut. Both apps make use of the Splunk Platform which provides a common set of Read more »
Splunk adds change-management and Windows support to IT search software
IT search company Splunk today added to its arsenal of tools for IT managers with the launch of Splunk for Change Management, an application to audit and detect configuration and changes, and Splunk for Windows, which indexes all data generated by Windows servers and applications. The San Francisco company provides a platform for large-scale, Read more »
Tell us your Splunk story at Interop
Are you planning on being at Interop in Vegas April 27-May 2? Do you use Splunk? If so, I'd love to hear from you. I'll be there with the Splunk video team and we'd love to record some new interviews with Splunk users. If you haven't seen some of the user interview videos we've already done, check them out. They're the best way to learn about how Read more »
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"Splunk is awesome: it's multiplatform, easy to install and easy to use. And with an abstraction layer of logs, configuration files and system messages, traps and alerts, it's seriously useful."
» Download the 451 Impact ReportThe Guide to IT Search
What is IT Search? Why is it changing the way data centers are managed? Discover the details of how you can apply Splunk in your environment.
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"Splunk eliminated hours of manual analysis per ticket. We now have proactive visibility into our SOA infrastructure."
Mike Danley, Senior Manager, Foundational Services
» Read the case studyDemystifying Compliance
Understand the top five myths of compliance. We provide you with a quick recipes to understand the major mandates and what it means for IT management.
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"Splunk helped us push the needle in the haystack to the top of the stack."
Josh Gluck, Assistant Director, Network and Communication Services Group
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