Washington, DC

May 20, 2010
Guest Speakers: A Large Federal Agency, The Washington Post and Blue Coat
 

Imagine using the Internet without a search engine ...

Now imagine if you had the power to search, analyze, and report on any information that's buried within your data center ... performance data, security data, metrics, logs, traps and troubleshooting information ...

Splunk lets you search and analyze all your IT infrastructure data from one place in real time. With Splunk, you can troubleshoot application outages, investigate security incidents and more in minutes, not hours or days.

Please join us at SplunkLive! Washington DC and learn how more than 1,750 companies, government agencies and service providers are currently using Splunk.

Check out what’s new with Splunk 4.1.

Customer Presentations

Hear enthusiastic Splunk customers talk about their deployments, their experiences and the challenges faced by IT professionals today.

A Large Federal Agency has the mission to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research. This Large Federal Agency is using Splunk as the incident investigation complement for its internal information security operations and to help meet FISMA security requirements.

 

The Washington Post Digital is the online distribution division for Washington Post media channels, serving more than 14 million visitors daily. Washington Post Digital is using Splunk for log and event consolidation across their entire IT infrastructure to deliver performance monitoring, troubleshooting and web user analysis for their online properties.

 

Blue Coat offers an Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. The Splunk for Blue Coat app provides search, alerting and reporting for large-scale Blue Coat environments. Pre-defined searches, reports and dashboards for Traffic Analysis, Bandwidth Reporting, Security Investigations and User Behavior combined with the power of Splunk search gives you the visibility and intelligence you need.

When:

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Agenda

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

  • IT Search Overview-How to manage Big IT Data and leveraging Splunk for Operational Intelligence with Tony Ayaz, VP Federal Team
  • Splunk's Co-founders Erik Swan, CTO, and Rob Das, Chief Architect, will discuss virtualization and leveraging Splunk for large amounts of IT Data
  • A Large Federal Agency will delve into scaling with Splunk and integrating with a SIEM
  • The Washington Post will detail how Splunk delivers performance monitoring, troubleshooting and web user analysis for their online properties
  • Splunk for Blue Coat provides search, alerting and reporting for large-scale Blue Coat environments
  • Demo of the latest release of Splunk 4.1 IT Search with John Topp, Splunk expert in operational management of large scale, highly secure SOC and NOC environments, cyber defensive technology

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch Roundtable with Q&A

1:30 pm - 3:30pm Technical Workshop: Getting Started User Training

  • Splunk architecture overview and Splunk for Blue Coat presentation
  • Experience how easy it is to get Splunk up and running
  • Extract valuable information from a mountain of data (aka Search language 101)
  • Get advice from the pros on how to deploy Splunk

1:30 pm - 3:30pm Technical Workshop: Advanced User Training

  • Learn new and powerful ways to sift through IT data (aka Search language 301)
  • Set up custom roles, dashboards and reports
  • Try your hand at custom application development with Splunk
  • Blue Coat Application use
  • Big Fix and Splunk

Where:

Crystal Gateway Marriott 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, Virginia 22202 USA

T: 703.920.3230
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