SplunkLive! Utrecht – Het was een mooie dag
The SplunkLive show continued on to Utrecht in the Netherlands yesterday. Our new Dutch partner, SMT, made the local arrangements. It was another fantastic day of customer and partner presentations and a lively audience of over 50 IT pros full of ideas and questions about different ways to use Splunk.
The first customer presentation was from Andrzej (“AJ”) Wolski, Unix Engineer at TomTom, the world’s leading navigation solutions provider. TomTom, known for its ubiquitous portable navigation devices used by 40+ million people worldwide, is in the process of a major move from a device to service orientation. This 3000+ person company with over 1.5 billion euros annual revenues offers its full range of core navigation and location capabilities – Plus, Map…
Hey Hey! Eniro and Unibet at SplunkLive Stockholm
SplunkLive continued its 2010 tour in Stockholm yesterday, at the lovely Radisson Strand hotel, organized to perfection by our local partner, Sentor. What a fun and informative morning in a wonderful city.
We had a great turnout of over 50 prospects and customers, with most staying through the entirety of Splunk’s Munich-based solution architect Christian Glatschke’s afternoon technical workshop. There were particularly great customer and partner presentations with very rich, multifaceted use cases and hard hitting facts and benefits.
Anders Söderström from Sentor played host throughout the day and gave a short presentation outlining their managed security and Splunk offerings.
Patrik Nordlén provided an overview of the Splunk security monitoring and forensics deployment that he completed for Eniro, the leading Nordic search engine company with…
Largest SplunkLive yet hits the Nation’s Capital featuring IT Gurus from The Washington Post and Federal Agencies
More than 200 people joined us last week in Washington, DC for our largest SplunkLive ever–doubling the number of attendees from the 2009 SplunkLive DC event! Representatives from great companies like BAE, Comcast, Lockheed Martin, McAfee, Qwest Communications, Verizon and representatives from nearly every branch of Federal government were in attendance.
Splunk’s Co-Founders Erik Swan and Rob Das started the day detailing why they created Splunk. Everyone knew there was value in IT data, but the way to search and understand it was complex and troublesome. Google was great for easily and logically finding information on the World Wide Web. Why not apply the same thinking to our log files and IT data? And just look what I can do with it once it’s in Splunk:
So we got…
SplunkLive! Minneapolis
Greetings from Minneapolis. Back due to popular demand, we’re here for our second SplunkLive in this city. Highlights of this event included a presentation from Splunk customer Carlson Wagonlit Travel and a presentation on Splunk for VMware – since a large percentage of attendees have complex environments with both physical and virtual servers.
Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Dan Zellmer, Senior Director Mid-Office Automation at Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT), shared his experience using Splunk for managing their AQUA application environment. CWT is a global leader specializing in business travel management.
AQUA is the project name for the Mid-office automation system used by branches worldwide for quality control, ticketing, fare checks, unused ticketing checks, seat assignments, and itinerary delivery.
Dan and his group faced the classic challenge of…
