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Cyclical Statistical Forecasts and Anomalies - Part III

Remember when you wanted great alerts, so you read our past two blogs about cyclical statistical forecasts and anomalies? Hopefully, the techniques in those blogs gave you some great results. Here we’re going to show you another way of finding anomalies in your data using a slightly different technique.

Quantitative Finance with Splunk: 'Who Correlated My Asset'

Over the past 24 months or so, I have been studying investing/trading while also working to become more proficient with Splunk. I like to combine activities and gain momentum, so I decided stock market and economic data would be the perfect way to dig deeper into Splunk and hopefully improve my investing/trading. In the beginning, I only looked at it as a way to learn more about Splunk while using data that was interesting to me.

Bringing Data to Home Security With Arlo

How would you like to be in touch with what’s happening at your doorstep at all times — whether it’s a package delivery, or your loved ones arriving home — no matter where you are? Now think about the folks at Arlo, a leading home automation company, who deliver on this promise for 3.4 million homes in over 100 countries. We hear from Suma about how she uses Arlo to get notified as soon as her kids arrive home from school.

Predicting and Preventing Crime with Machine Learning - Part 2

In the first part of this blog series, we presented a use case on how machine learning can help to improve police operations. The use case demonstrates how operational planning can be optimized by means of machine learning techniques using a crime dataset of Chicago. However, this isn’t the only way to predict and prevent crime. Our next example takes us to London to have a look at what NCCGroup’s Paul McDonough and Shashank Raina have worked on.

The Data-to-Everything Platform: What It Is, What It Means

As a company leader, what value are you extracting from your business and IT? What about from security data lakes and processes? Are you able to drive speed for your business because of real-time, advanced analytic capabilities? Successful companies are making technology architecture their business architecture—aligning stakeholders, processes, data, and analytics in an integrated fashion to deliver faster, data-driven decisions that are more accurate than ever before.

Announcing the latest version of Security Monitoring for Splunk App

It’s been a while since I have had the pleasure of announcing a new version of Security Monitoring (September 2018), but today I am doing just that. There is nothing better to inspire spending your evenings coding and playing with Splunk than your partner watching shows that just don’t interest you! For my UK friends, yes ‘Love Island’ is that show and for my more international friends "look it up!". So, what updates did I bring?

Manufacturing 2020: Time to Reinvent After a Golden Decade

Generally, 2009 to 2019 were 10 golden years for manufacturers worldwide. After the swift recovery from the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09, many manufacturers have been enjoying double-digit order intake growth, increasing revenues and profits for over a decade. German manufacturers in particular benefitted from an unprecedented peak in 2018. Volkswagen delivered a record-high number of 11 million cars and grew its revenues to 236 billion euros, the highest revenue ever in its long history.