Blogs: Splunk Live!

I had the opportunity to attend our SplunkLive event in Columbus the other day.  Before I even mention the event, let me go on record as saying that the Blue Ribbon Pot Roast at the Tip Top Kitchen is probably the best darn pot roast I’ve ever had.  Hopefully my mother doesn’t read this. Let’s talk SplunkLive.  For those of you who have never been to a SplunkLive, it’s an event we hold regularly in cities all over the world for Splunk customers, partners, and those interested in learning a bit more about what’s going on at Splunk to interact.  Having been in the tech industry for awhile, I’ve been to many vendor events where you get to hear…

I had the pleasure of hosting SplunkLive Dallas late last week, with some of the best customer presentations yet from MetroPCS, Pegasus and Louisiana State University. 95 people attended, and nearly everyone stayed on for the afternoon technical sessions to dive deep into Splunk hands on.

What was remarkable about this event, to an even greater degree than other recent SplunkLives, is the extent to which Splunk deployments have evolved from simple search and break/fix – you could easily see an emerging maturity model for operational intelligence at work.

Lamar Holtzclaw, our local senior sales engineer in the Dallas area, gave a great demo showing exactly how Splunk can be used to quickly find SLA violations amongst transactions spanning…

We just completed four SplunkLive events in four striking locations across Asia Pacific – the bayside cities of Sydney and Melbourne and the island cities of Singapore and Hong Kong. Interest levels were high at each event with packed audiences throughout. Companies attending included communications service providers, financial institutions, governmental institutions and educational institutions, all seeking to find out more about the ways they can use Splunk. A key part of SplunkLive is hearing from customers and at the Sydney and Melbourne events we were lucky enough to have Corporate Express present their story.

Shaun Butler and Luke Harris – Corporate Express

Shaun is Senior Technology Specialist and Luke is Senior Systems Engineer at Corporate Express, a leading supplier…

On a crisp and wet Wednesday morning, the W hotel played host to SplunkLive Atlanta 2010. 100 attendees packed the well-heeled conference room, all eager to learn more about Splunk, get burning questions answered and connect with peers.

As with other SplunkLive events, we invited customer speakers to share their experiences with Splunk. On this occasion we had three speakers and every one of them was stellar.

John Daniely – Atlanta Journal Constitution

The first speaker was John Daniely, from Atlanta Journal Constitution, the only major daily in Atlanta and somewhat of an institution enjoying a daily readership of 2.3 million visitors.

John and his team are responsible for all aspects of network security, including Active Directory auditing, security…

Orlando is the 5th SplunkLive of 2010 (following events in Boston, London, Vienna and Munich) and the first ever in Florida. The event drew a capacity crowd of enthusiastic customers and users.

As usual at these events, we asked customers to stand up and talk about their experience with Splunk – how it’s used, where it helps, lessons learned and the impact on their organization. On this occasion, we had two great speakers from Voxeo and Presidio.

RJ Auburn – Voxeo

Voxeo is the world’s largest provider of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) services, supporting over 82,000-hosted ports globally and also have hundreds of on-premise deployments. Over 100,000 developers use Voxeo’s platform to integrate with their existing web applications and…

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…

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…

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…

As a nod to our revolutionary approach to changing the way people monitor, report and interact with their IT data, the first SplunkLive of 2010 will kickoff in Boston, “The Cradle of Liberty.”

The event features three great customer speakers representing a large local university and one of the largest financial services firms in the US.

These IT pros are revolutionizing the way their organizations share, secure and troubleshoot the IT data critical to keep their operations running at top performance.

At the financial services firm, they truly are revolutionizing processes with Splunk. Typically a new product rollout could take up to two years, but because Splunk performed so well in the test environment, they’ve compressed the rollout…

Last Thursday Dave Schwartzburg and a few other Cisco security mavens attended SplunkLive Raleigh. The Cisco Computer Security Investigation Team (CSIRT) has been a applying Splunk to corporate security investigations for more than two years now and Dave was generous enough to share their experiences with us all. Joining Cisco presenting at the event was James Ervin of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, a very knowledgeable Splunk customer. Patrick Ogdin, Splunk Sales Engineer gave a rocking good demo of transaction tracing in a telco provisioning environment and Will Hayes, Splunk Sr. Solution Architect showed the latest Splunk for Cisco Security App being developed together with the Cisco CSIRT team.

Cisco CSIRT Team

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