Splunk with Hadoop: Three Ways to Play

With Splunk’s recent announcement of Hunk (Hadoop and Splunk), lots of customers are wondering exactly how these two leading big data platforms can work together.  From a Splunk perspective, there are actually three ways to integrate with Hadoop.  In this post I’ll quickly discuss all three and give you plenty of links to additional resources […]

Splunk Security Overview and Demo

You may have heard that more than 2,500 organizations are now using Splunk for information security.  It’s an impressive statistic, but what does it really mean?  Why do so many organizations find Splunk valuable for security?  Are they simply using Splunk Enterprise, or are they also leveraging free apps?  What types of machine data are […]

All Machine Data is Security Data

Over the last month I’ve had a really cool opportunity to do a deep dive using Splunk to deliver IT security intelligence.  Splunk is much more than a security tool.  In fact it’s a platform for collecting, analyzing, and reporting on all types of machine generated data.  Splunk has many use cases including IT operational […]

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