theCUBE Live At Splunk.conf 2014

Splunk’s fifth annual Worldwide Users’ Conference, known as .conf2014, kicks off this week in Las Vegas, promising lessons in how leading companies are using Splunk showcased in more than 160 sessions, more than 70 customer speakers, and hundreds of demos, data sets and new product features.

At its annual conference last year, the company announced the release of Splunk Enterprise 6 and the acquisition of BugSense, a cloud-based quality-assurance monitoring tool for mobile applications. The moves were part of a steady broadening beyond Splunk’s traditional target market of developers who create apps or interfaces for systems-monitoring consoles.

Customers who are presenting their stories this year include Autodesk, British Sky Broadcasting Group, Cars.com, Cisco, Duke University, Expedia, The Hershey Company and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Beyond engineers

The core value of Splunk Enterprise goes beyond IT engineers. It presents a significant opportunity for business users and developers to eliminate their fear of data. Splunk’s foothold is in monitoring and analyzing log data for IT or security systems. The friendly search and query language makes it ideal for developers to add sophisticated statistical functions in their apps. Splunk is being used in telco, financial services, digital media, the public sector, healthcare and others.

Once again at this year, Splunk will provide Splunk University sessions covering hands-on training, including an intense Splunk App Developer Boot Camp. The sessions will cover everything from Splunk for .NET developers to Java Virtual Machine to building Splunk Apps to DevOps topics.

For the first time, the company will introduce the Splunk Dev Lounge, a dedicated space for hacking on Splunk throughout the conference. Partners, members of the engineering team and evangelists teams will work with the software development kits or on ways to extend Splunk with modular inputs and custom search commands.

Developers sandbox

At the .conf2014 developers will learn how to gain operational intelligence from machine-generated data by improving customer experience and service delivery, ship better code faster, provide timely business insights and reaching new levels of security in their organizations.

Splunk is hoping its DevOps strength and popularity with enterprises can launch it into new markets in the cloud. Splunk’s outreach to developers includes the addition of Splunk Apps Showcase, which will showcase the latest technology in building Splunk apps.

As organizations cannot afford downtime on data platforms that monitor their applications, infrastructure and services, the company is also likely to introduce new Splunk Cloud features to address these issues.

Join the Splunk team from October 6-9 for three action-packed days of Splunk goodness. SiliconANGLE will be covering the event in its entirety, broadcasting live from our news desk, theCUBE. Watch exclusive interviews and keynotes here, at SiliconANGLE.tv.