How can information technology keep pace with machine-learned systems, solving problems at the edge of the network where devices like smartphones and sensors thrive on real-time interactions?

Looking to answer this question and others, SiliconANGLE is at Splunk .conf2017, currently underway in Washington, D.C., with exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news desk, theCUBE. (* Disclosure below.) At the company’s eighth annual conference, machine-data management provider Splunk Inc. will explore the latest Operational Intelligence trends in cloud computing, business analytics, the Internet of Things and machine learning.  

Splunk blew past its second-quarter revenue forecast with a 32-percent jump in sales and revenues of $280 million, in large part thanks to increased spending on security technologies. The big data security market is expected to grow from $12.22 billion in 2017 to $26.85 billion by 2022, according to MarketsandMarkets Research Private Ltd.

“Splunk doesn’t have the breadth of use cases, but they built all the pieces — storage, user interfacing, dashboarding, even the machine learning — so it all fits together so you can install and get value very quickly,” said George Gilbert, big data analyst at Wikibon Research (Wikibon Inc. is owned by the same parent company as SiliconANGLE Media Inc.). “You don’t need five administrators. One or two people can get it up and running in a day and start looking at the data.”

This year has seen Splunk introduce a new data monitoring tool for Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud users, while Rackspace Inc. teamed up with the company in June on machine learning initiatives. Earlier this year, Splunk and New Relic Inc. announced a strategic alliance that will integrate Splunk’s back-end information technology monitoring platform with New Relic’s application and code-tracking solutions. Just last week Dell EMC announced an expanded relationship with the company to harness the power of machine data.

The company also joined a $15.8 million funding round into Insight Engines Inc., a startup whose tool is able to inspect security logs with Splunk’s data-crunching platform using plain-English queries.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

We offer you various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at Splunk .conf, including SiliconANGLE TV and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from this year’s event on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE’s coverage starts today at 11 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. EST.

SiliconANGLE TV and Ustream

All of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews from Splunk .conf will be available on the dedicated theCUBE.net page.

You can also watch the coverage from Splunk .conf on the dedicated Ustream page.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from Splunk .conf will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE

Tuesday, Sept. 26

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE include Splunk executives Brian Goldfarb, chief marketing officer; and Doug Merritt, president and chief executive officer; as well as Dell EMC executives Colin Gallagher, senior director, product marketing, HCI; and Cory Minton, principal engineer, data analytics leader.

Other guests who will be interviewed include AWS executives Ray Zhu, senior product manager; and Roger Barga, general manager; Michael Lauricella, director business development at Atlassian Corp. Plc; Brooke Gravitt, vice president, engineering and chief software architect at Forty8Fifty Labs ( a subsidiary of Veristor Systems, Inc.); and Michael Ibbitson, executive vice president, technology and infrastructure at Dubai Airports.

Tuesday’s lineup also includes Josh Rogers, chief executive officer at Syncsort Inc.; Atif Ghauri, vice president of customer success at Herjavec Group Inc.; Chidi Alams, head of IT and security at Jiffy Lube International Inc.; Sherrie Caltagirone, executive director at Global Emancipation Network; and Jeff Chancey, managing director of technology, ecosystem and ventures at Accenture Plc.

Wednesday, Sept. 27

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE include Splunk executives Monzy Merza, head of security research; and Haiyan Song, senior vice president and general manager of security; as well as Yelp Inc. executives Chris Gordon, software engineer; and Zachary Musgrave, lead engineer.

Other guests include TransAlta Corp. executives Kent Farries, IT security; and Ikenna Nwafor, senior information security specialist; Ben Miller, director HTS operations at Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Derek Merck, director of computer vision and image analysis at Rhode Island Hospital; and Altaf Karim, service line and practice lead at Cisco Systems Inc.

Wednesday’s lineup also includes Brad Medairy, senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.; Chris Kurtz, systems architect at Arizona State University; Terry Ramos, vice president of business development at Palo Alto Networks Inc.; and Ruel Waite, manager of delivery and support at Carnival Cruise Line (part of the Carnival Corp.)

How to watch the keynotes

For those of you who won’t be able to attend the Splunk .conf in Washington, you will still be able to watch the keynotes either live or on demand on the official event page.

Tuesday, Sept. 26

At 9:00 a.m. EDT, Doug Merritt, together with other Splunk executives Richard Campione, senior vice president and chief product officer, and Nathaniel McKervey, director of community and advocacy, as well as Michael Ibbitson will present on how Splunk turns machine data into the answers its customers need to reimagine IT, security, IoT and business analytics.

Wednesday, Sept. 27

At 9:00 a.m. EDT, Splunk executives Johnathon Cervelli, global ITOA practice leader; Kelly Kitagawa, sales engineer; Divanny Lamas, director of customer success; Monzy Merza; and Maritza Perez, product management director will explore what is new and transformative across the Splunk platform and solutions to arm customers with the insights and intelligence needed to thrive in a digital marketplace.

Thursday, Sept. 28

Special guest speaker Billy Beane, executive vice president of baseball operations for the Oakland Athletics, whose innovative management style involves utilizing analytics to create and sustain a competitive advantage, will present at 9:00 a.m. EDT.

(* Disclosure: Some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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