Guest Blog: Cisco Technical Marketing Engineer Karthik Karupasamy highlights his experiences from Splunk's recent .conf2016 event in Orlando, FL.
What an amazing week I had at Splunk's annual user conference,. conf2016! This is the second year I attended and it just keeps getting better. This year the focus was on delivering operational intelligence by leveraging machine data with a particular focus on machine learning.
I really enjoyed meeting so many folks face-to-face who I had previously only interacted with via telephone or WebEx. I was very happy to share how Splunk and Cisco are paving the way to digital transformation with our programmable UCS infrastructure and the Cisco + Splunk integrations around operational intelligence & security analytics. Together Cisco and Splunk help organizations derive hidden insights from their machine data, whether it's from a little VM, a container, a data center switch, an application server, or a sensor hidden deep in an underground tunnel.
At .conf2016, I co-presented with Splunk's Brian Wooden. In our talk, we highlighted the benefits and long term value of deploying Splunk Enterprise on the Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data, our strong partnership with Splunk and about how you can effectivelysplunkthe UCS infrastructure using the Cisco UCS App. During my presentation I announced the release of a new version of UCS Director Express for Big Data with support for Splunk. Check out this video that shows how easily UCS Director Express provisions the entire Splunk cluster (8 indexers, search head cluster with 3 search heads, and an admin node with cluster master, DMC, deployer and license manager functions) -access the video here (1:31).
This further demonstrates the extent of our partnership with Splunk. Check out the breadth and depth of Cisco and Splunk integrations below (over 20).
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Cisco Big Data Portal
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The Business Value of Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data