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Splunk Remote Work Insights: Expanding Insights into Video Conferencing Operations

Since we launched Splunk Remote Work Insights (RWI) in late March, we have been focused on helping our customers and the community understand how their workforce is staying connected, productive and engaged as we all continue to work across largely distributed teams.

Simulating the Entire US Pharmaceutical Supply Chain with Full-Stack Analytics

With the rising needs associated with COVID-19, the challenges of the commercial drug supply chain is more evident than ever. This article features an innovative and progressive technology that uses blockchain to solve the ongoing problem with the drug distribution chain.

How to Introduce Yourself to Machine Learning

Most IT and business leaders know that despite the economic and human disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation will ultimately speed up, not slow down. The immediate challenges of the pandemic have led companies to find innovative ways to get things done, relying on data-driven decisions and technologies.

Prevent and Detect Threats Across Multi-Cloud Environments

The cloud has become ubiquitous in all we do, and the line between the perimeter and the cloud continues to shrink as most enterprise organizations are looking to shift their cloud strategy to a multi-cloud approach. Moving to the cloud comes with plenty of benefits like performance optimization, improved reliability and overall cost savings, but cloud adoption is not without its risks and challenges.

Infrastructure as a Competitive Advantage - Tips for Managing Trading Operations

I recently spoke on a panel discussion with the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) on the use of infrastructure as a competitive advantage. The event offered fresh thinking on what it takes to manage high-frequency, low-latency trading environments - so I wanted to share some best practices for organization, monitoring, and how to make insights operational.

Survivorship Bias in Observability

During World War II, a mathematician named Abraham Wald worked on a problem – identifying where to add armor to planes based on the aircraft that returned from missions and their bullet puncture patterns. The obvious and accepted thought was that the bullets represented the problem areas for the planes. Wald pointed out that the problem areas weren’t actually these areas, because these planes survived.

Sink or Swim: What We Learned Helping Customers Navigate the Pandemic

From the first stay-at-home order, we have been working alongside our customers — from a distance, of course — and we helped them through a new and changing reality. As a customer success organization, we help customers leverage the tools and solutions they have, troubleshoot issues and optimize their business with the intent of helping customers be nimble and adjust to the changing conditions and uncertainties in the market.

Orchestration and Automation Helps Defense, Intelligence Personnel Tackle Higher-Level Tasks

What if you could get your hands on a force multiplier that got rid of the repetitive, routine work that was tying down your team, got more productivity out of your assembled work force, and gave everyone a more challenging, meaningful to-do list that made better use of their knowledge, experience, and passion?

Maximizing Your Splunk Investment: Introducing Splunk Lantern

Congratulations, you just bought Splunk! You made a great decision, and now it's time to start solving all those business problems on your plate. Maybe you are trying to reduce the time spent managing cyber risks from hours to minutes. Or you might be executing a digital transformation of your customer experience. Or perhaps you are trying to save $70 million dollars in an IT consolidation project. But you have just one question: how?