Meet the Splunkterns: Ryan Flynn
Welcome back to our “Meet the Splunkterns” series. This week our featured Splunktern is Ryan Flynn, a Software Engineering Intern working in the Content/Applications (ITSI) Department. Ryan is from...
View ArticleSplunking Soccer and the English Premier League
The English soccer season starts this weekend and I was lucky enough to go to the season opener (The Community Shield) for my son’s first football match. He had a lot of questions including “who won...
View ArticleRaise a Glass to Splunk Apptitude Winners
With the grand prize of $100,000 being awarded to the Fraud and Insider Threat category, it was only appropriate to announce the winners at Blackhat 2015 – one of the largest security conferences in...
View ArticleBuilding a Software/SaaS Business on AWS – 5 Steps to Success
The following is an excerpt from a contributed blog post made to the AWS Partner Network blog: As AWS increasingly becomes the preferred deployment model for enterprise applications and services, it’s...
View ArticleEarning a Seat at the Table: Hybrid Cloud with Continuous Delivery & Insights...
In my previous post, I addressed the need for organizations to transform and adapt their IT capabilities to ensure that they “responsibly move at market speed.” Now, I wanted to talk about how that can...
View ArticleEarning a Seat at the Table: Hybrid Cloud with Continuous Delivery & Insights...
As discussed in my last post, after setting the vision to “responsibly move at market speed” and defining the KPI’s, you can break the technical organization into three focused, empowered teams: Team...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #33
Hey there community and welcome to the 33rd installment of Smart AnSwerS. Yesterday, two teams of Splunk interns presented their Splunk4Good Hack projects in a contest where they had to create an app...
View ArticleAnnouncing the SplunkTrust Community MVP Program!
The meaning of the Splunk fez we know and love is about to come into sharper focus– –as the symbol for our new Community MVP program, the SplunkTrust. The Splunk user community is one of the strongest,...
View ArticleSplunk Cloud and AWS GovCloud (US): A Happy Union
More and more government agencies and U.S. companies are turning to the flexible, scalable and cost-effective option of cloud computing. While some are still taking a cautious approach with the cloud,...
View ArticleTea and Biscuits and Operational Intelligence
Wherever in the world you are reading this, there’s always time for a cup of tea. Whether it is English Breakfast, Earl Grey, Peppermint or Roobois, in the 4-5 minutes it takes you to make “a cuppa”...
View ArticleCyber Crime in Finance – Splunk attended the Banking Lounge Event at...
Hello, Recently Splunk and Finanz Informatik Technology Service, a provider of IT outsourcing and a finance cloud service, attended a Banking Lounge event, and also had the honor of speaking. This post...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #34
Hey there community and welcome to the 34th installment of Smart AnSwerS. An exciting announcement just went out earlier this week, and that was the launch of the Community MVP Program, the...
View ArticleEarning a Seat at the Table: Why Containers Matter
Container technologies like Docker matter to the enterprise for three key reasons: 1. Density 2. Portability 3. DevOps Density is about extracting as much value from your infrastructure as possible....
View ArticleCollecting docker logs and stats with Splunk
I’m working at Splunk, but this is my personal thoughts. I have some knowledge about Splunk obviously, but you should not consider this as an official Splunk manual. Everything I did here – I did only...
View ArticleStorytelling: The Heart of Splunk Beats at .conf2015
I love a good story. It’s when you hear an amazing story that the lines blur between what you were told and what you actually feel. I also believe there is great power in a well-told story – the power...
View ArticleSplunking Box Data – User Authentications
The Splunk Add-on for Box collects a lot of valuable data including Box users, files, folders, groups, and more. Included in the Splunk Add-on for Box are several pre-built panels to get quick...
View ArticleSmart AnSwerS #35
Hey there community and welcome to the 35th installment of Smart AnSwerS. For all the hard work put into making all things Splunk as awesome as possible, a group of Splunkers were taken on a day trip...
View ArticleCanDeal Can Do with Splunk
I love listening to our customers talk about their passion for Splunk software. The stories they share about never-ending ways they can utilize our software are truly inspiring and there is typically a...
View ArticleOptimizing Integrated Eligibility Systems to Improve the Citizen Experience
Government healthcare agencies often face strong pressure to operate more efficiently as a result of budget cuts, the retirement wave, or to improve citizen services. They are expected to reduce fraud...
View ArticleHow Splunk Is Supporting the Federal CDM Program: Part 1
The Federal Government’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program is one of the most important and widely discussed cybersecurity initiatives. In the face of high-profile breaches and...
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