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How AI Can Catalyze Digital Resilience: An Introduction to Splunk's Philosophy

ChatGPT and other LLMs have become so accessible that even our grandmas know about AI. But what’s really happening beyond the hype? Recently, I sat down with IT and security leaders Cory Minton and Kirsty Paine to share the inside scoop on how we’re thinking about AI here at Splunk. Watch the replay of our conversation here.

Using VPC Flow Logs to Monitor AWS Virtual Public Cloud

While no man is an island, your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is, except it’s a digital island floating in the ocean of a public cloud offered by a cloud service provider (CSP). The VPC means that everything on your digital island is yours, and none of the CSPs other customers can (or should be able to!) access it. You’ve likely been introduced to the shared security model, a sometimes-confusing way that organizations and their cloud-services providers (CSPs) split security responsibilities.

Kubernetes Reliability Risks: How to monitor for critical issues at scale

Learn how to automatically find and fix the most critical Kubernetes reliability risks in enterprise organizations. Recent research shows that nearly every organization has reliability risks in their Kubernetes clusters. Many of them are caused by simple misconfiguration, but they can have devastating consequences—including taking critical services offline. And while you could manually review every Kubernetes deployment, the speed and scale at which most organizations deploy to Kubernetes makes that impractical.

Fleet & Discovery | Sematext

Sematext Cloud's Fleet and Discovery makes managing agent installations and setting up service and log monitoring a super simple task. It lets you see, troubleshoot and manage each agent, use logs for diagnostics, and set up which services or logs you want to be monitored. Don't miss out on the opportunity to streamline your monitoring workflow and ensure the optimal performance of your technology stack.

Exploring the new EKS Pod Identity Functionality

One announcement that caught my attention in the EKS space during this year’s AWS re:Invent conference was the addition of the Amazon EKS Pod Identities feature. This new addition helps simplify the complexities of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) within Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). EKS Pod Identities simplify IAM credential management in EKS clusters, addressing a problematic area over the past few years as Microservice adoption has risen across the industry.

Retail Resilience: Lessons Learned from Cyber Week 2023

Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year marked a strong recovery for the retail and e-commerce sectors. Consumers were more eager to spend compared to 2022. Adobe Analytics highlights a significant jump in online sales, reaching $9.8 billion on Black Friday, up 7.5% from last year. Cyber Monday also saw an impressive rise, with sales hitting $12.4 billion, a 9.6% increase from 2022.

Azure Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling: Which is Right for You?

Scalability in cloud computing refers to the system’s ability to handle changing workloads efficiently. It allows seamless resource adjustments based on demand, optimizing performance, cost, and resource utilization. Key benefits include improved flexibility, cost efficiency, high availability, and enhanced user experience. Scalability is essential for adapting to dynamic business requirements and ensuring the optimal functioning of cloud-based applications and services.

Webinar Recap: Building an AI Anomaly Detection Pipeline with InfluxDB

In this webinar hosted by InfluxDB and HiveMQ, we focus on how you can create value for your business using new tools in the AI and database ecosystem to quickly deploy AI models to perform tasks like anomaly detection. The webinar starts with a high-level overview of how MQTT and time series data can be valuable in an industrial IoT environment.