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Splunk: “We’re Absolutely Fanatical” for Instant Value | #splunkconf

Markus Zirn, VP of Product & Solutions Management at Splunk, joined theCUBE during the second day of Splunk.conf13 in Las Vegas, talking with co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier about his company’s ecosystem, content and revenue. Zirn agreed to talk about the applications built on the Splunk platform. “The ecosystem is fundamental to Splunk; what ...

Prelert’s Big Data Dream: Tech So Ubiquitous Everyone Can Use | #splunkconf

Covering the Splunk Conference live from Las Vegas this week, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante managed to track down Rich Collier, Prelert’s Principal Solutions Architect, to discuss the current event and the new developments of the company. trying to explain the general excitement of the people attending the event, Collier stated they primarily ...

Building Apps on Splunk to Solve Customer Woes | #splunkconf

Live from Las Vegas, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante sat down with Gary Burghett, Deployment Architect at CQ Cloud, and Peter Chang, CTO with N3N, to talk about their companies and their partnerships with Splunk, detailing what exactly each brings to the table. CQ Cloud provides analytics focused on security issues for cloud ...

Splunk + BugSense : Making Perfect Sense of Data | #splunkconf

Guido Schroeder, SVP of Products with Splunk, and Jon Vlachoyiannis, Director of Engineering at Splunk, were John Furrier’s guest in theCUBE, broadcasting live from this week’s Splunk Conference in Las Vegas. Vlachoyiannis was the co-founder and CTO at BugSense, the mobile data analytics company Splunk recently acquired. He and Schroeder took turns explaining how BugSense ...

Splunk 6 Live Demo Video: All You Need to Know is “How to Use a Mouse” | #splunkconf

Attending the Splunk Conference in Las Vegas, Dave Vellante, Chief Analyst with Wikibon, welcomed Sanjay Mehta & Manish Kalra to theCUBE, where they discussed the goals and objectives of the freshly released Splunk 6, and also provided a live demo (full video below). Sanjay Mehta, VP of Product Marketing, starts by sharing Splunk’s primary goal: ...

Explaining Product Excellence as a Culture | #splunkconf

Towards the end of the first day of the Splunk Conference in Las Vegas, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, interviewed Stephen Sorkin, Chief Strategy Officer with Splunk, debating the traditional and non-traditional uses of Splunk, the platform’s extensive history and explaining the product excellence mindset as a culture. Proceeding to present himself and ...

Resisting Change In This Industry Means Death | #splunkconf

Broadcasting live from Las Vegas, from the Splunk Conference 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, caught up with Darren Dance, Unix Technical Lead with WorldPay. WorldPay is a payments company that processes a lot of transactions face-to-face in the UK, which is also used worldwide, online. Talking about Splunk and its adoption in ...

Splunk: The Only Company Where Marketing “Undermarkets” the Software | #splunkconf

For the second year in a row at Splunk .conf, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, sat down with Steve Sommer, Splunk CMO , discussing the top announcements that revved the audience at the event today, as well as major changes in the way the company goes to market. For starters, there were twice ...

Oracle Not Yet “Telling a good business story,” Says Analyst | #oow13

During the last day of Oracle OpenWorld 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, interviewed Elizabeth Hedstrom Henlin, Enterprise Software Analyst with TBR. For the first time on theCUBE, Henlin attempted to answer a couple of questions regarding the Oracle customer’s experience. Vellante kicked off the interview noting that “Customer experience is something that Oracle ...

Data and Content as a Platform + Big Data, Big Content, Big Value | #oow13

Steve Karam, Data and Content Technologist with John Wiley & Sons, was invited by John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, for a very inspiring talk about… books.  The interview took place during our live coverage of Oracle OpenWorld this week. In a world where books are being digitized, content is now being used to ...