Our first full day of Splunk 4.0 is under our belt and so far so good. More than 2400 people ultimately registered for the Launch webinar yesterday representing more than 61 countries and 1500+ organizations.
To keep that momentum going, we’re introducing 40 days of Splunk 4.0. Each day for the next few weeks someone from [...]

I know, I know, no one wants to hear about the bad economy, but many of our IT brethren are facing staff reductions and limited budgets. At the same time, security is becoming a greater concern. Employees leaving organizations could be taking secure/ private data with them, fraud and other hacks are on the rise.
Even [...]

So as I said, things are really moving and shaking for Splunk EMEA. In addition to last week’s win of Best Integrated Security Solution, last week we hosted SplunkLive Norway in Oslo. Henrik Strøm, Security Architect for Telenor, presented how Splunk can help Telenor’s IT Operations become more proactive and do in minutes what used [...]

Both Chris Mishaga, Senior Security Engineer for L-3 Communications, and Sean Wilkerson, Senior Security Engineer for Aplura, have implemented countless SIEMs, SIMs and SEMs for large federal agencies. But when they started using Splunk to meet the log centralization component of FISMA compliance, they thought maybe there was a way to bring Splunk into the [...]

InformationWeek will unveil the Startup 50, the top tech companies shaking up IT. You can help decide which startups make the cut by voting for the most innovative, disruptive companies (ie Splunk!).
The link and directions to vote are here: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/03/vote_for_your_f.html
Vote for Splunk!

As an online retailer with over 1 million unique visitors per day and hundreds of orders coming in per minute, downtime is not an option–especially between Black Friday and New Year’s. And if downtime were to occur, you need to know what happened, when in order to fix it immediately. This year, Macy’s avoided downtime [...]

PCI compliance isn’t easy, but it is important if you’re a retailer processing more than 20,000 transactions annually. Proving compliance affects your profitability, your reputation, and your ability to keep doing business.
Splunk addresses many of the PCI requirements, and has pre-built searches, reports, alerts and dashboards to get you going. You can track a particular [...]

Hi, I’m Erin. And I spend a lot of time talking to Splunk customers.
Customers often tell us that using Splunk is addictive. Once they use it for basic log consolidation, they see how they can use it for network troubleshooting and monitoring, or application troubleshooting, SIEM or compliance reporting. There are also folks using Splunk [...]