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We are so excited to announce that LogDNA received the IBM Cloud Embed Excellence Award during the ​IBM Think​ conference on May 5, 2020. IBM Cloud’s Data & AI Excellence Awards recognize the stellar performance of IBM Business Partners who drive extraordinary client experiences and business growth. IBM Log Analysis with LogDNA and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker with LogDNA are built on IKS and are deeply integrated with IBM Cloud.

Digital transformation is reshaping every aspect of our lives—from health to education to economic prosperity, and data is at the heart of it. At Splunk, we are bringing data to everything, enabling organizations worldwide to investigate, monitor, analyze and act on their data across IT, Security, and DevOps use cases. Through this digitization, we see customers accelerate their journey to the cloud for increased agility, reduced costs, and faster time-to-market.

We are excited to announce a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to bring real-time observability into Google Cloud Services and modern applications for our joint customers. Cloud has become essential to modernizing IT environments and enabling the digital initiatives of organizations large and small. Organizations undertake IT modernization – including cloud adoption – to accelerate innovation and increase operational efficiency while optimizing IT spend.

Welcome to the second installment of the Dashboards Beta blog series! I’m your host, Aditya Tammana, and today we have a very special guest – v0.5 of the Dashboards Beta app on Splunkbase!

Apache Solr was always ready to be extended. What was only needed is a binary with the code and the modification of the Solr configuration file, the solrconfig.xml and we were ready. It was even simpler with the Solr APIs that allowed us to create various configuration elements – for example, request handlers. What’s more, the default Solr distribution came with a few plugins already – for example, the Data Import Handler or Learning to Rank.

A large number of security breaches are impacting industry verticals, including banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), telecom, and hospitality, so there's a growing need for organizations to fortify their infrastructure against these threats. For example, by the time T-Mobile identified the intrusion and unauthorized access to its sensitive data in 2019, both its customer and employee details were already stolen by hackers.

In the modern digital ecosystem, every user activity, system error, application transaction, and network packet movement can be tracked using logs. This level of visibility into systems, networks, and applications is useful for troubleshooting bottlenecks, analyzing past trends, and predicting future events. However, monitoring various cloud-based and on-premises resources becomes complex in the absence of proper log aggregation tools.

We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy and taking advantage of the added time at home to spend ample time with your families, picking up new hobbies, workout routines, and staying active! We are in unprecedented times, and as you look around, we are all having to change our ways and adjust to the new normal in our personal and professional lives.

As we connect with customers we increasingly hear the need for teams to be more predictive with their data. A big challenge is uncertainty around how to get started, especially when much of their data is unstructured. At Splunk, our goal is to make data — and machine learning — accessible for a broad range of users. The good news is, with machine learning doing even more work on your behalf, you don’t need to be a data scientist to use these advanced capabilities.

Many people are working from home (WFH) now and will be for at least the next few weeks. The VPN and TLS connections that remote workers rely on allow for secure access, and although these are not new connection types to monitor, the current WFH situation has created a significant increase in the number of these connections you must monitor. This new WFH scenario has made one thing easier: mobile users are no longer mobile.