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.conf24 Day 2 Keynote: Innovating for the Future

Get pumped for day 2, when we’ll dive deeper into how Splunk and Cisco are revolutionizing the way customers build digital resilience. Hear from Splunk SVP and GM of products & technology, Tom Casey, who will reveal our product vision. He’ll be joined by Jeetu Patel, Cisco EVP and GM of security and collaboration, to share the power of our combined portfolio. And you’ll hear from product leaders about new innovations, with live demos from United Airlines, Progressive Insurance and more.

The Evolution of Data Archiving: How to Get Immediate Access to Archived Data

Data storage has come a long way. It’s impossible to imagine having to search racks of tape reels for specific datasets, and the same is happening for archival storage. This type of storage is very low cost, but the tradeoff is the data isn’t readily available, often requiring 24 hours or more to convert, thaw, and be in a usable format. But what if you could have your cake and eat it, too? Low-cost archival storage AND instant access to your data?

New Splunk Innovations Help Build a Leading Observability Practice for the Whole Enterprise

So much goodness is coming your way! Find out all about the latest and greatest from Splunk Observability that helps you keep your entire stack up and running, no matter where it’s deployed or who’s troubleshooting.

Fast Track to Digital Resilience: Splunk Platform Innovation

It’s critical that you are in the driver seat of your Splunk environment with choice and flexibility, and we have spent the last year extending the capabilities of Splunk’s unified security and observability platform to do so. We have continued to grow and innovate to ensure that you and your team have all the tools you need to have a secure, cost-efficient, and effective environment.

How Apica Flow Economizes Your Splunk Costs

In the current high-volume business environments, the demand for accurate and available data is higher than ever. Traditional data management solutions often fall short, escalating costs and operational challenges. Gartner reports that by 2027, at least 40% of organizations will deploy advanced data storage management solutions, a significant increase from just 15% in early 2023. This shift underscores the urgent need for efficient data management tools.

.conf24 Day 1 Keynote: The Splunk You Love, Now Even Better

It’s time to kick off.conf24! Start the week right with Splunk EVP and GM Gary Steele, who will share how Splunk customers are building a safer and more resilient digital world, plus drop fresh product announcements. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins will join Gary to inspire you about how Cisco + Splunk will power and protect the AI revolution and make the Splunk you love even better. We’ll also welcome a customer guest and give Splunkie and partner award winners a well-deserved moment in the spotlight.

Mastering Centralized Logging with OpenSearch

For effective centralized logging, OpenSearch is a perfect solution as OpenSearch offers powerful querying and analysis capabilities, and it’s highly scalable and flexible. In this article, we will outline why you should use OpenSearch for centralized logging, before outlining how to easily configure centralized logging in OpenSearch.

The Importance of Observability for Healthcare Providers

The systems and data that healthcare providers utilize and process are fundamental to its successful operation. Therefore these organizations must invest in appropriate and powerful observability solutions that enable them to effectively monitor their systems and valuable data. These tools and solutions allow healthcare providers to securely manage, deliver, and ensure uptime for their entire IT infrastructure.

Your Guide to Observability Engineering in 2024

It may sound complicated and daunting, but so much of observability is about discovering the unknown unknowns in your critical systems. The capabilities of observability engineering can help you make those discoveries. Most organizations have some form of monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting, which can be adequate to a point but fall short when trying to determine the root cause of unexpected outages.

From "rebooting" to reliable and secure applications: Optimizing the customer experience

Not so long ago in my career, I remember when it was relatively acceptable for infrastructure or development teams to solve a problem by rebooting a server or just “turning things off and on again.” It didn’t matter what caused the problem or how long the reboot would fix things, provided they were fixed for now. Security teams were always held to a different standard.