Version 7.3 of the Splunk Enterprise machine data analytics and visualization platform is now available, and with it will come enhanced, more enterprise and production-grade support for Splunk’s SmartStore capability. This is significant because SmartStore stands to greatly lower the…

The need to solve data problems at scale is arguably the most prominent storage driver today — whether hardware, software or cloud services. In this regard, Splunk is quickly becoming a textbook use case. Splunk is an application that analyzes…

Solving the Data Management Challenges Created by Growth in Splunk Usage One of the biggest challenges when it comes to generating business intelligence from large, distributed datasets like Splunk is meeting very large capacity and very fast search performance requirements…