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Cisco uses Splunk. The CSIRT Team and a Prestigious University will share their Splunk stories–live from Raleigh, Next week: Thurs Nov 12
Join us at the Marriott RTP next Thursday, November 12 for SplunkLive. Two more of our coolest customers will showcase how they're using Splunk in their IT environments. The oldest state university is using Splunk for all the basics - log consolidation, email tracing, operational troubleshooting and as a SIEM in conjunction with IDS and IPS tools. Learn how the university is using Splunk to enhance operational effectiveness, and how one system administrator built the case to fund and deploy Splunk across the largest IT group in the university. We'll also hear from Cisco's CSIRT (Security… Read More »
Serendipity is….
"Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter " - Julius Comroe I just read the quote in a presentation from Matt Jones of BERG at the DXf conference. There is so much i love about this presentation i don't know where to start. Just click through it ( embedded below ) and have your own reaction. It's clearly designed to be a fun/light read. I think I clicked at about one slide per few seconds. Then went back and stopped on a few that really spoke to me. It was entertainment that made me think which then made me smile. At its heart, splunk is a time… Read More »
Splunk, Developers, and SOA Apps
When most people first come across Splunk, the first set of users associated with it naturally become operations, security, or compliance personnel. Splunk naturally lends itself for their use. I was speaking to some software engineers explaining what Splunk does and the connection for how it could be used for their engineered Service Oriented Architecture applications did not come immediately. I told them that one of Splunk's T-Shirts reads "Be an IT Superhero. Go Home Early." At that point, I got their interest. Let's get back to the basics for one of the reasons Splunk exists, which applies… Read More »
Add a Server or Two!
Every week i run into someone that is having performance issues and they are not aware you can just add another server or two or ten. I'll travel to meet a company and I'll ask how many servers they are using for Splunk to search/index/report on a terabyte a day. They will say a couple. I'll then ask how many they have for a similar sized hadoop or data warehouse project. They will say 50 to 100X that number. Look if your going to give these systems 300+ servers, can we please get 15? Somehow there is a breakdown in our communication that we scale like all other good architectures. The… Read More »
Exponential is the entrepreneurs linear
I was in a meeting last thursday where some "important-people" ( not sure if they want to be named ) dropped the D word ( "disruptive" ) several times. They were presenting a slide that proved-out an age-old (1994?) adage that the key to success is ( can be ) a disruptive business model. It's one thing for professor Christensen to talk about it, and another when its bankers have a slide for it. Personally I need to be reminded of its importance every day, since being disruptive was one of the most important guiding principals when founding Splunk. As we grow, and become more established, i… Read More »
Collision of big data analytics and splunk
How people use Splunk is often a surprise to us - at least they are going beyond our original intent. Initially we thought of splunk as a search engine for log files, Google for your logs if you will, to help IT folks troubleshoot their complex systems. Quickly we found that users started Splunking config files, network packets, source code, email, etc. Over the years our customers have been dragging us into all sorts of new uses-cases like global windmill power plant data analysis, protein structure prediction, or just something simple like analyzing user behavior on a website. Lately we… Read More »