IT research and advisory company Gartner, Inc. ranked Splunk Enterprise and Splunk App for Enterprise Security as leaders in its recent Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). Haiyan Song, SVP of security markets for Splunk, Inc., and Monzy Merza, Splunk’s chief security evangelist, joined John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to talk about ...

The security industry is experiencing one of its highest activity levels ever, according to Atif Ghauri, senior vice president of global information security firm Herjavec Group. Ghauri spoke to John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Splunk .conf2015. “Companies are searching for products, services … anything to get through,” Ghauri said. “Security teams are ...

It’s more than a little unnerving for a big company to purposely experience an attack. But that’s just what FireEye, a cyber security leader, does when it “Red Teams” for clients. “Red teaming is a valuable service for companies, because often they may not know what it’s really like to face the adversary,” Tony Lee, ...

OTTO, Germany’s leading web and catalog retailer, manages a high volume of data. But despite its size — 153,000 employees and 123 subsidiaries — the company maintains a relatively modest Splunk installation. “We have about 63 different software systems running in the background, and all of them have to be monitored,” said Andre Pietsch, product owner/manager ...

Vertu, a British manufacturer and retailer of handmade luxury mobile phones, uses the highest quality materials in its design, as well as platforms such as Splunk to help test the reliability of its software. Rob Charlton, cloud DevOps architect for Vertu Corp. Ltd., told John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Splunk.conf 2015 that Vertu ...

VMware, Inc. looked at its gender diversity numbers last year and knew it could do better. With VMwomen, a business-led initiative for a more diverse and inclusive environment, VMware is becoming a more inclusive company. Paul Strong, VMware’s CTO, Global Field, and Sheryl Chamberlain, group VP and global partner executive at Capgemini, joined John Furrier of theCUBE, from ...

  Commentary from the #SplunkConf Crowdchat was active with live tweeting.  The one theme that came out was the notion that Splunk is positioned to thrive with a growing partner ecosystem. In the video above at the 11:36 minute mark SiliconANGLE founder co-ceo John Furrier lays out his commentary on Splunk’s growth opportunity. “Operational data ...

Splunk, Inc. may act like a startup, but it operates like the private, machine data leader that it is. Emilio Umeoka, Splunk’s VP of worldwide partners, sat down with John Furrier and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Splunk .conf 2015 to discuss the company’s partner strategy moving forward. Umeoka said that Splunk has ...

theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, traveled to Las Vegas for the 6th annual Splunk .conf2015. Even as the event kicked off, attendees talked animatedly about Splunk, Inc.’s growing product base and its role in machine learning and systems of intelligence (also known as Splunk IT Service Intelligence – ITSI). An evolution in machine learning John ...

Scott D. Lowe, cofounder of ActualTech Media, LLC, greeted Stu Miniman, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, with a copy of his new book, The Gorilla Guide to Hyperconverged Infrastructure Implementation Strategies, published by ActualTech Media. The guide marks the first in a series of instructional books from the content development company. Where to ...