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Time flies.  Couple of weeks ago, I was visiting a major retailer to finish up my kid’s back to school shopping.  To my surprise, I found number of holiday items – Halloween, Christmas lights and other items on the shopping racks. Hmm….I just realized that retailers are getting ready for the holiday season.

This is the time when retailers look forward to increased activity in their stores and online.  As ecommerce is picking up, more buyers prefer to do research online and make purchases through websites or mobile apps.

Holiday season can be nerve wracking for website owners who count on site availability, better user experience to drive website conversion.  Many website drive a major portion of their yearly…

Vacations are good for you. You get a chance to decompress, experience new things and sometimes look at things in a new way or make a connection between things that at first glance may not seem connected at all. When I go on vacation I try to let my mind wander. Usually, I get rewarded with an epiphany or two that I take back to work when the vacation is done.

This vacation I read Imagine: How Creativity Works, by Jonah Lehreh, 2011 published by Canongate London. At 253 pages, it wasn’t very long read but as a former security practitioner it got me thinking a lot about the role of imagination and creativity in a security practice.…

What has Splunk got to do with Mobile Grocery Shopping? This is indeed an intriguing topic, and we have recently worked with the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore to have a working showcase to demonstrate how Splunk is used as the data engine to collect, index and report on the machine data that are generated from Near Field Communication (NFC) handsets where they are used to emulate mobile grocery shopping.

This showcase will be located at the iExperience Centre, which is located at Esplanade Xchange along the shortest underground linkway between Raffles City and Suntec City.

Some of the highlights for this year include:

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Looking forward to being on a panel at the upcoming Cloud Analytics Conference on April 25 to represent Splunk and opportunity of mining big data for the enterprise.  Will be contrasting Business Intelligence with Operational Intelligence.

During my career I’ve been around for the dramatic growth of the market for BI tools and now BI services.  In the beginning of the BI era, large capital projects were necessary to deliver needed functionality, as the industry for BI was still reaching maturity, and it would be some time before these processes were made more streamlined, and the data democratized. At this point, in the new millennium, the majority of CIO’s I know embrace BI solutions that…

It happens to me quite a bit that I hear a song and then it keeps playing in my head.  My 4 year old is notorious for singing the same song over and over and then I find myself humming during my long train ride to work.

Sometimes, it happens at work – you hear a thing and you keep hearing about the same thing in almost every conversation.  I am sure you have had those times too.  A number of you will have had days or weeks when you have had some discussion on “big data”.

For the last three weeks, I have had number of conversations on the topic of big data.  Strata,

One of the first and most beloved series of dashboards used at Splunk internally were created by R&D and product management teams, deriving a number of statistics from the downloads of Splunk software from our website.  The apache log provided the primary raw information for these dashboards, which were enriched and used to show download activity globally, by version, platform, and by country, and geo.  These have been the business analytics used to gain insight into the distribution of our products around the world.

Since taking on the new roll out of Splunk internally, the IT team has been working to set up a series of charts that focus more on operational metrics – the up time of the service,…

Last week we held SplunkLive in New York City for the 4th time. I never tire of hearing about customer successes, visiting with our long-time and new customers, and watching the fantastic interactions between users. This year more than 200 folks joined us in Times Square.

DealerTrack is the nation’s first and largest credit application network for the automotive industry, connecting 17,000 dealers and over 1000 lenders. Senior Director of Technology Architecture, and one of the founding members, Chris DeMeo detailed DealerTrack’s complex environment, spanning multiple geos and data centers and with the diverse architecture that comes with multiple acquisitions over the course of several years. As is common with our customers, they brought Splunk in for a unified view…

On October 13, 2011, the Splunklive caravan headed to the Rockies with over 125 people in attendance at SplunkLive Denver – doubling the number from last year.  The event opened with a Splunk introduction from Stephen Sorkin, VP of Engineering at Splunk, and one the chief architects of the product.  The subsequent sessions were a “customer fest” with five presentations from customers that included CenturyLink, Staples, Ping Identity and two presentations from Cricket Communications – it set a new record for customer presentations at a Splunklive!

The customer presentation bonanza kicked off with CenturyLink, the third largest telecommunications company in the US.  CenturyLink discussed how their initial view of Splunk as a tactical solution to monitor platform rapidly evolved to…

At two full house SplunkLive events in London and Amsterdam, it quickly became obvious that the Splunk fan following in Europe is turning into a serious sized storm. SplunkLive London opened to a full session of 200+ attendees at the Tower Hotel. After a lively Splunk introduction by CEO Godfrey Sullivan, came presentations from Betfair.com, Tesco.com and a consultant on behalf of a rather large London summertime sports event that involves grass courts.

Betfair.com, the world’s largest betting exchange runs thousands of bets per second and uses Splunk extensively across 5 different datacenters. Representing Betfair was Will Thames, the product delivery technical lead. Betfair started using Splunk to centralize their logging, and to make it easier for customer support to…