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March 2023

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Data Centers: The Ultimate Guide To Data Center Cooling & Energy Optimization

Mar 30, 2023 By Shanika Wickramasinghe In Splunk
Data centers provide a central space to house IT resources required to run applications of any business. To get the best out of data centers, optimizing their performance, scalability, energy efficiency, availability, security and cost-effectiveness is important. Of all those parameters, energy efficiency optimization is one of the most important things organizations must consider, as the consequences of energy-inefficient data centers are significant.
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Splunk Dashboard Studio Demo in Splunk 9.0

Mar 30, 2023 By Splunk In Splunk
Splunk Dashboard Studio is our new and intuitive dashboard-building experience that allows you to communicate even your most complex data stories. This demo walks you through how to convert an existing Classic Simple XML dashboard to Dashboard Studio and how to leverage Splunk Dashboard Studio to more effectively communicate the data in your dashboard. Follow along to learn about the key capabilities to leverage when building dashboards in Splunk, including how to edit the source code to apply default configurations to multiple objects at once, how to use the configuration panel to easily edit objects, and more tips and tricks to group and stylize your visualizations.
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Financial Services Predictions - the highlights for 2023: Two trends, two actions and a honest take on financial services hype.

Mar 29, 2023 By Charles Adriaenssens In Splunk
Thanks to regulation, legislation and the pandemic, the term ‘resilience’ has burst into the consciousness throughout the financial services industry. But why is it so important? To answer this, we are going to delve deeper into the world of Operational Resilience by exploring how it has the potential to deliver a lot more than merely regulatory compliance.
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Trust, understanding, and love

Mar 29, 2023 By Mark Woods In Splunk
As Charles highlights in his Financial Services Predictions blog, operational resilience is critical. The regulatory drive for defining, measuring and improving operational resilience is clear within Europe, outlined by EU DORA and UK FCA / PRA guidelines. The organisations who embrace this change can capitalise on real opportunities in the coming years; specifically, the opportunity to use data-driven insights to improve customer experience and proactively resolve issues before customer impact.
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Splunk Synthetics in Observability Terraform Provider Released

Mar 29, 2023 By Jeremy Hicks In Splunk
“How do you know your web properties and APIs are up and functioning as expected for users, not just nationally, but across the entire planet?“ Splunk Synthetic Monitoring provides an effective solution to monitor and track the reliability of web properties from locations all over the globe. By generating simulated user or API requests with Splunk Synthetics you’ll quickly be able to measure response times from various locations, devices, and connection types.
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Data Denormalization: Pros, Cons & Techniques for Denormalizing Data

Mar 27, 2023 By Shanika Wickramasinghe In Splunk
The amount of data organizations handle has created the need for faster data access and processing. Data Denormalization is a widely used technique to improve database query performance. This article discusses data normalization, its importance, how it differs from data normalization and denormalization techniques. Importantly, I’ll also look at the pros and cons of this approach.
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Bring Order to On-call Chaos With Splunk Incident Intelligence

Mar 27, 2023 By Annette Sheppard In Splunk
In today’s turbulent times, companies big and small are being pushed to do more with less. Budgets are getting tighter and companies are being pressured to serve customers who demand 24/7 availability from their applications and services. To meet these demands and remain competitive, enterprises are adopting cloud-first strategies and developing applications with microservice architectures.
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Splunk Incident Intelligence Demo

Mar 27, 2023 By Splunk In Splunk
Splunk Incident Intelligence is a team-based incident response solution that connects the right on-call staff to the actionable data they need to diagnose, remediate and restore services quickly. Integrated with the Splunk Observability Cloud portfolio of products, it helps you unify incident response, streamline your on-call and ultimately resolve incidents faster.
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The Splunk Immersive Experience powered by AWS is here!

Mar 23, 2023 By Splunk In Splunk
The Splunk Immersive Experience (SIE) powered by AWS is now open! The SIE journey is thoughtfully crafted to showcase industry-specific solutions for known use cases and highlight tangible business value and outcomes that Splunk and AWS can deliver. For more information and to find out how you can get an SIE tour, check out the video.
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Public Sector Predictions - the highlights for 2023 and two challenges that the public sector faces

Mar 22, 2023 By Sean Price In Splunk
Has the public sector ever been under so much pressure? Universal across all government departments, essential public services are under significant strain. However, COVID-19 and the subsequent knock-on impacts (economic, social and healthcare challenges) have buckled the resilience and kept many front-line concerned with delivering the scale of service required by the public.
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Cloud Migration is hard especially in the public sector, but there is a way

Mar 22, 2023 By Shaun Cooney In Splunk
As Sean Price discusses in his ‘2023 Public Sector Predictions’ blog, European government departments and agencies are under pressure to reduce costs, improve efficiency and provide a better citizen experience. Governments need to offer more services at higher quality at a time when it costs more to heat buildings and to employ people to run the services.
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Splunk Observability in Less Than 2 Minutes

Mar 22, 2023 By Splunk In Splunk
Splunk Observability is the most comprehensive observability solution available today, combining application, infrastructure and digital experience monitoring, with log management, AIOps and incident response in a single solution experience. With Splunk Observability software engineering and IT operations teams can fix problems faster, improve reliability and build exceptional customer experiences.
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Splunk Data Insider: What is Edge Computing?

Mar 20, 2023 By Splunk In Splunk
As cloud computing is pushed to its limits by the exponential growth of data, adopting edge will be the logical next step for enterprises and other organizations that can’t afford latency. For that and many other reasons, edge computing is here to stay. And it will be the key we need to not just unlock value from data, but also stay afloat during this epoch.
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Building Resilience With the Splunk Platform One Use Case at a Time

Mar 17, 2023 By Jennifer Swallow In Splunk
You know that the Splunk platform is the ultimate tool to help advance your business on the path to resilience. You want to use it to see across hybrid environments, overcome alert fatigue, and get ahead of issues. You could be just starting out in your security journey and want to build an essential security foundation or if you're starting out in observability, you might want to accelerate your troubleshooting. You might be working in retail, telecommunications, or the public sector.
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Top DevOps Certifications to Earn in 2023

Mar 17, 2023 By Blessing Onyegbula In Splunk
DevOps teams combine development and operations to boost productivity at work. For this to happen, the professionals must possess the right skills, knowledge of the right tools and the DevOps mindset. This makes it an interesting department to work in as, over time, you’ll be able to build a portfolio of soft and hard skills that will be useful in different spaces.
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Data Lakehouses: Everything You Need To Know

Mar 17, 2023 By Shanika Wickramasinghe In Splunk
A data lakehouse is a modern data architecture. It is popular among many organizations that incorporate the features of both data lakes and data warehouses. The features of a data lakehouse make it ideal for a range of data analytics use cases. This article explains data lakehouses, including how they emerged, how they shape up versus data lakes and data warehouses, their architecture, and finally, the pros and cons of using a data lakehouse.
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Predictions: a Deeper Dive into the Rise of the Machines

Mar 14, 2023 By Greg Ainslie-Malik In Splunk
As Gaurav described in his retail predictions blog, the impact of AI and automation on the retail industry should not be underestimated. The compound effects of improvements in technology and labour shortages have created an ideal scenario for innovation. Here we will take a deeper look into some of the AI and automation use cases that we have seen in retail and outline some of the areas of focus to help you get started.
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Log Aggregation: Everything You Need to Know for Aggregating Log Data

Mar 10, 2023 By Chrissy Kidd In Splunk
Log aggregation is the process of consolidating log data from all sources — network nodes, microservices and application components — into a unified centralized repository. It is an important function of the continuous and end-to-end log management process where log aggregation is followed by log analysis, reporting and disposal. In this article, let’s take a look at the process of log aggregation as well as the benefits.
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The Incident Commander Role: Duties & Best Practices for ICs

Mar 7, 2023 By Laiba Siddiqui In Splunk
Imagine that a critical incident — a major outage, cyberattack or disaster — occurs out of nowhere in your company. In such a case, you'll try to minimize the damage and get back to normal operations as quickly as possible. But how will you do that? You've no idea how to manage such incidents. This is where incident commanders come in. They're trained professionals who lead the response to critical incidents.
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Common Event Format (CEF): An Introduction

Mar 3, 2023 By Stephen Watts In Splunk
In the world of software engineering, monitoring and logging are two essential processes that help developers keep track of the performance and behavior of their applications. To facilitate this process, several logging formats have been developed over the years, including the Common Event Format (CEF). In this blog post, we will take a closer look at what the Common Event Format is, how it works, and why it is important.
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Data Analytics 101: The 4 Types of Data Analytics Your Business Needs

Mar 2, 2023 By Muhammad Raza In Splunk
Data analytics refers to the discovery, management and communication of meaningful insights from historical information to drive business processes and improve decision making. The process involves: So, let's take a look at data analytics today, specifically the 4 types you need and what they'll tell you about your organization.
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How Monitoring, Observability & Telemetry Come Together for Business Resilience

Mar 1, 2023 By Chrissy Kidd In Splunk
Systems going down because of an unforeseen incident? Got problems with your app or website? Is your audience missing out on products and services because your load times are too slow? Then monitoring and observability (and telemetry) should be of interest to you! In this long article, we’re covering everything! I’ll start with the concepts and how they work.
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