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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Audit logs, or audit trails, answer a simple question: who did what, where and when? So, in this article, we’ll answer our own simple question: How can you use audit logs, and what use cases do audit logs best support?

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.