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Is your online gaming platform "Chaos Monkey"-proof?

Try to imagine a bunch of monkeys running around your data center, pulling cables, trashing routers and wreaking havoc on your applications and infrastructure. Ever more crucial in these days of heated competition between online gaming operators, is player experience. Continuity of operations is “Uber-Alles” and avoiding churn, due to service disruption, is the organizational mantra.

Announcing InfluxDB IOx - The Future Core of InfluxDB Built with Rust and Arrow

On November 12, 2013, I gave the first public talk about InfluxDB titled: InfluxDB, an open source distributed time series database. In that talk I introduced InfluxDB and outlined what I meant when I talked about time series: specifically, it was any data that you might ask questions about over time.

Splunk Data Stream Processor & Splunk Phantom - The Need For Speed

What is the benefit of combining the power of Data Stream Processor (DSP) and Splunk Phantom? I will give you a hint - the answer involves speed and extensibility. In today's security landscape, speed to detect and mitigate security attacks or outages is of the utmost importance. A slow response to a security incident can have a detrimental impact to your organization's bottom line.

Get Your Role On with the Splunk Platform

First of all, thanks to everyone for the great response we received on the revival of this blog series. It validates what we believed all along — our customers take a great interest in the security of our products, and you enjoy learning more about our security features. So we are on that vibe, and we’re going to continue the updates because we have a lot to talk about.

Global Manufacturer Finds Its Sweet Spot For Network Monitoring With Exoprise CloudReady

To ensure a successful migration to Office 365 and the required network transformations, Exoprise CloudReady was selected and utilized by this global manufacturer to ensure excellent employee digital experiences, high availability, and superior performance. Download and read this case study to learn about all of the benefits this company receives in utilizing Exoprise solutions.

Edge-native Linux

Tech innovators use Linux to create intelligent devices for homes, factories, buildings, cities or vehicles etc… These things are deployed at the edge, in privacy sensitive or business critical environments. They require ever more compute to run ever smarter applications. A Linux distribution engineered for embedded devices running highly intelligent applications at edge scale is overdue. Let’s discuss what it takes to get there.

The Power of the Crowd

With the shift to Software-as-a-Service and Cloud nearly complete, organizations can optimize their end user experience and network operations with the power of crowd-sourcing. For decades, Internet-based sharing has improved the lives of billions. Now, companies can take advantage of sharing when it comes to protecting and optimizing the very the thing that connects us, the Internet!

How To Monitor Zoom Audio Video Conferencing

Exoprise CloudReady makes it easy to monitor the availability, performance, and quality of the end to end infrastructure that delivers Audio / Video Conferencing (meetings) through systems like Zoom US. Many organizations utilize cloud-based conferencing to service Work From Home mandates, telecommuting or emergency communications.

Integrating Network Automation for Better Monitoring and Performance

Network Monitoring is often considered the key in ensuring an efficiently run network. However, as the business and its operations keep expanding, network monitoring goes from being a responsibility to become a necessity. At a larger scale, network issues can result in significant hindrances for the operations.

Splunk: Dogfooding: How Splunk Uses Its Own APM to Accelerate MTTR

Most Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools were designed for on-premises applications. As public clouds, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless redefine how applications are designed and built, a new approach to APM is needed - one that takes into account the complexity, scale, and ephemeral nature of microservices and cloud in order to simplify and accelerate troubleshooting. In this webinar, we will share insights from customers, and chat with our own engineers to hear how they dogfood Splunk APM to troubleshoot issues in new products and services that we create.