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Cloud Strategy in the Data Age | Splunk's Andy Hershey and Evan Kirstel

In 2020, Coronavirus forced many companies to rapidly pivot to cloud-based solutions and remote work. Splunk’s Andy Hershey GVP, Cloud Sales & GTM Transformation, and B2B tech influencer and evangelist, Evan Kirstel, sit down to discuss how companies can optimize their cloud strategies in the Data Age. The pair discuss the challenges of the cloud journey, data-driven solutions, security concerns, and how leaders can effectively succeed in this new digital world.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Multipath World

Picture a network—any enterprise network. What do you see? In almost every case, in almost every environment, you’ll find hubs and spokes of hubs and spokes all the way down. For network engineers, their focus may be even more narrow: innumerable clients, lots of switches, and fewer routers connected to a core. This classic on-prem topology has served reliably since the dawn of Unix time.

Optimizing Load Times on Apache Web Server on Digital Ocean With SolarWinds Pingdom

Introduction We all want the fastest application possible for our customers. At the same time, we’re under pressure to continuously add new features. These new features add complexity, which makes our application heavier, which in turn slows our applications down. So, how do we add new features, yet keep the performance of our application high?

The Cost of IT Downtime: An Overview

As the adoption of cloud computing continues to encourage innovation across industries, high-performing and resilient systems have become a necessity in order to keep pace with the competition and meet internal/external SLAs (service level agreements). In terms of customer expectations, a minute of downtime can mean thousands of dollars in lost opportunity and a soiled customer relationship. So what exactly is downtime?

Endpoint Security Data Collection Strategy: Splunk UF, uberAgent, or Sysmon?

Many threats originate from the endpoint and detecting them requires insights into what happens on the endpoint. In this post we look at different endpoint activity data sources, comparing the benefits and capabilities of Splunk Universal Forwarder with vast limits uberAgent and homegrown solutions.