When I talk with Splunk customers, their challenges sometimes sound like trying to find a needle in a stack of needles. Feel the same way? The answers you need are out there, hidden in your data. Our job is to help you find them. Securing your networks, keeping them up and running and maximizing efficiency are key priorities. You also face the challenges of speeding up development and driving innovation to stay competitive.

In the late 1960s, there was a rock band called Ten Years After and I liked the name the first I heard about them. I wanted to use "Splunk and the Financial Services Industry: Ten Years After" as the title of this blog entry, but it’s been more than ten years since I wrote the first Splunk Blogs entry on Splunk and the Financial Services Industry. As you can tell, a lot has changed since then and more than a decade is an internet lifetime in technology.

Many CXOs believe that Web3 will power the next paradigm shift and transform the world. As a result, they are accelerating their learning curve to spot opportunities and leapfrog to next-gen business models that will catapult their organizations to new heights. But is there really an urgency to explore what Web3 can offer?

Splunk is all-in on OpenTelemetry, as exemplified by our native support for it in Observability Cloud, Splunk Enterprise and Enterprise Cloud’s usage of the OpenTelemetry Collector with Splunk Connect for OpenTelemetry Kubernetes, our long-term ambition to use OpenTelemetry as the main way that all Splunk Products capture data from customers’ infrastructure and applications for analysis, and our massive level of contribution to the project.

We are excited to share the latest advances around the Deep Learning Toolkit App for Splunk (DLTK). Earlier this year, Splunk’s Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) was updated with some important changes. Please refer to the blog post Driving Data Innovation with MLTK v5.3 and the official documentation to learn more about what changes were made and most importantly how they may affect you, especially if you run MLTK models in production.

At this point we are well past the third installment of the trilogy, and at the end of the second installment of trilogies. You might be wondering if the second set of trilogies was strictly necessary (we’re looking at you, Star Wars) or a great idea (well done, Lord of the Rings, nice compliment to the books). Needless to say, detecting anomalies in data remains as important to our customers as it was back at the start of 2018 when the first installment of this series was released.

Last year, International Data Corporation released its Data GlobalSphere Forecast, 2021-25, in which it outlined the projected 23% compound annual growth in data, leaping to 175 zettabytes of data globally. So the natural question becomes, what will the world do with that much data? And, more importantly, what can your business do with your data?

* Co-author: Alexander Okl, Sr. Partner Development Manager EMEA | Google Cloud at Splunk “The way we look at manufacturing is this: the strategy should be to skate where the puck is going, not where it is.” - Tim Cook, CEO, Apple Inc.* So where is the puck going for manufacturers in 2022 and beyond?

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