With the ever-increasing amount of data available, companies are struggling to keep up and pull out what’s relevant from what isn’t. Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL) is no different according to Justin Brown, IT Engineer.

Brown sat down and with John Furrier and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Splunk .conf 2015 to discuss how Splunk has allowed PNNL to focus on its mission of providing innovation.

a monitoring solution that offers an innovative, machine-data driven approach to provide comprehensive visibility into operational health and key performance indicators of IT services and the infrastructure that underpins it.

From two months to one day

Brown explained that using Splunk, Inc.’s IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) could have saved him two months of work had he known sooner. He revealed to the hosts that it took just one day using Splunk’s software to replicate the work it took him two months to achieve.

This takes a huge burden off of the IT department, as well as on creative minds that can now focus  efforts elsewhere. For example, problem locations can be determined quite quickly and addressed so that the appropriate individuals are alerted to the problem — a huge gain in efficiency when it’s critical to know where the problem is that requires fixing.

The benefits

PNNL has a mission that Brown intends to support to the fullest. He noted that Splunk’s ITSI allowed much of the work that was previously holding up many of the creative scientific minds at the lab to be refocused on new more exciting tasks. The system allows him to be “proactive” rather than “reactive” to problems, as well as unleash the creativity of the scientific personnel there.

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

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