Our First Splunk Live! in Munich, Germany
Held at BMW-Welt on March 8th and hosted with local Splunk Partner IT-Cube Systems, attendees came from across Germany, Switzerland and Belgium to learn from presentations by Swisscom and Accenture.
Splunk competed successfully in the morning, drawing a room full of interested Splunk Live! attendees despite the brand new BMW cars and motorcycles on display in the BMW-Welt entrance.
Mika Borner: Swisscom
The first customer presentation was by Mika Borner, a long-time Splunk user. Swisscom is the leading telco/ISP in Switzerland and Mika spoke about their use of Splunk for managing their Internet messaging services.
Before Splunk: custom parsers/analytics, grepping through even one day’s logs took a long time (Swisscom handles 40 million emails per day), there was no live view and finding anomalies was almost…
One of World’s Largest Financial Firms Presents at Splunklive Boston
The second presentation at the Boston Splunklive event on January 28th was an in-depth profile of a large-scale deployment in a financial services firm, anonymously described as “one of the world’s largest providers of financial services.” Paddy Griffin, Director of Technical Architecture, used his extensive history in the software industry to provide context to his firm’s plans with Splunk. Unlike other major IT projects at his firm, this Splunk-based initiative is being rolled out in record time, using an iterative approach, to show they can provide a continually enhanced log aggregation and search service as part of their “nimble infrastructure.”
Paddy started his presentation by unveiling the name of the overall initiative: LASSIE (yes, like the famous collie from TV). The…
Customer Presentations Draw Record North American Attendance to Splunklive Boston
120 users and prospects came together Thursday morning, January 28th, to attend the first Splunklive of 2010. Set at the Cambridge Marriott in Kendall Square, a major university and a major financial services firm presented on how they are using Splunk to better manage their IT infrastructures. Attendees came from the greater Boston area, Maine, Connecticut, and elsewhere in Massachusetts on a day when it was cold enough to walk across the Charles River.
The event was kicked off with a short overview of Splunk–a presentation followed by a product demo.
The first customer presentation was given by Jim Donn, Network Management Systems Engineer, and Tim Hartmann, Unix Systems Administrators. They requested that their university remain unnamed, so I’ll refer to them…
