After a productive start to the Splunk .conf2015, Kevin Davis, public sector VP of Splunk, Inc. met with John Furrier and George Gilbert of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to discuss the highlights, possibilities and expectations moving forward.

The needs of Splunk’s high-profile clients, which include the Department of Energy, Human Health Services and the Internal Revenue Service, among others, were a major point of focus, along with consideration of how to ease the process of adopting and incorporating Splunk for smaller clients.

Variety of options

“Many of my customers start with a very small use-case, but then they see the power of what’s possible,” Davis noted. And the possibilities offered by those unexpected abilities have led to some intriguing innovation as companies find ways to recombine the data results.

Splunk’s Information Technology Search Intelligence (ITSI) was another topic of interest, as it’s allowed the detection of stolen credit cards and other goods with greater speed and efficiency. Also touched on during the interview was Splunk’s ability to work as a hybrid model, operating both on-site and in the cloud, which has drawn the attention of customers looking for precisely that kind of flexibility.

‘Open-source first’ mantra

Acknowledging that Splunk was aware of its open-source competitors, Davis pointed to the greater range and consistency of services Splunk has focused on bringing to its customers as one of its primary strengths.

“In my world, it’s kind of the ‘open-source first’ mantra,” he stated. Emphasizing a “crawl/walk/run” progression of usage for many of Splunk’s clients as they explore more and more of what can be done with Splunk’s functionality, and not limiting it to just IT operations, he felt “very excited” about what he’d seen so far at Splunk .conf2015’s first day.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Splunk .conf 2015.

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