Merritt also told the audience how Splunk is making its tools easier to scale and use, as well as announcing a new 'Centre of Excellence' model where users will be able to go online for help, advice and support. There was, however, little direct reference to more business-related applications in an event where the devoutly technical audience were avidly lapping up information on new enhancements to the company’s analytics and security tools. conf event held in Washington DC.ĬEO Doug Merritt’s opening keynote, contained some indirect references to the trend as he told the 7,000-plus delegates about business related use cases such as The Global Emancipation Network, a collective of techies aiming to use their skills and Splunk analytics tools to find ways of countering human trafficking, the State of Louisiana, and which is using Splunk to save $70 million a year in IT infrastructure costs. The early signs of this – a big push to implement and integrate machine learning capabilities and the appearance from Splunk partner, Insight Engines, of a natural language query tool that works with Splunk’s Search Process Language – could be seen at the company’s annual. It has taken longer for the next step to be taken, but the signs are all there that the company is now working on taking it – becoming a BizOps business.
After all, the best way to spot that something malicious is happening – rather than has happened – is to spot its appearance in the machine logs. Splunk may have started life as an IT Ops business, but it in pretty short order it added a strong element of security capability to its repertoire.
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