Cloud Computing: Splunk Enterprise 6.2 – Diving into Operational Logs
November 1, 2014
Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Dan Kusnetzsky.
I’ve followed Splunk Inc. for quite some time and have always thought that its approach to exploring and analyzing data found in operational and machine logs to be clever and, potentially, quite useful. The company recently launched its newest edition of its enterprise product, Splunk Enterprise 6.2.
The idea is to make it easier for IT and business analysts to search through mounds of data, find patterns and glean useful and actionable insight. Splunk makes it possible for analysts to discover previously hidden relationships in their data, regardless of whether it’s being created and stored on-premises, off-premises or in a cloud service provider’s datacenter…
Splunk claims that this version of its software also reduces total cost of ownership by improving scalability of concurrent searches and eliminating shared storage requirements…
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