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AI Canvas at Cisco Partner Summit

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Cisco Partner Summit is in full swing, and the innovation is inspiring. I had a great opportunity to chat with David Jansen and Cisco's new collaborative tool called AI Canvas that allows you to use generative UI (that isn't a typo) via natural language to investigate the vast amounts of data Splunk can access. AI… Read more →

Splunk and AWS S3 Federated Search

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While at Cisco GSX, I ran into Travis Kane (a.k.a. Trav) over at the AWS booth. He has built a hands-on workshop that steps you through the technical bits of setting up Amazon S3 with Splunk Federated search so that you can search data in-place without bringing it to Splunk. In other words, we're bringing… Read more →
Tags: Splunk Cisco

Splunk Pods on Cisco UCS

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One of the tenets of Splunk is 'fun', and David Rea embodies that principle to the core. At Splunk .conf25, I had the opportunity to chat with him about Splunk PODS - which brings together Splunk software, Cisco UCS hardware, validated designs, and more to give customers turnkey solutions with confidence for small, medium, and… Read more →

Splunk MCP Server

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MCP (Model Context Protocol) has been making waves as it provides a standard way of connecting AI applications to external systems. I caught up with Hal Rottenberg at Splunk .conf25 to discover more about the Splunk MCP Server release (for both Splunk Cloud and on-premises). To quote Hal, it is like '...watching the Science Fiction… Read more →
Tags: Splunk AI

Splunk Laser Bananas and Edge Hub

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Laser Bananas and the power of Splunk! While at Splunk .conf25, I had the opportunity to chat with Simon Slade about how he brought together physical data with observability to demonstrate the breadth of Splunk solutions. By shooting a laser out of a banana (that is not a typo), receiving the signal, brokering the MQTT… Read more →

Splunk and Crogl autonomous investigations

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While at Splunk .conf25, I unexpectedly ran into monzy merza! Monzy was at Splunk back when I started in 2012, and I learned a lot from him as he has a genuine and unique way of presenting information. Lately, Monzy had been busy as the Co-Founder and CEO of Crogl, Inc. which provides autonomous investigations… Read more →

Splunk and Accenture CCP

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While at Splunk .conf25, I had the opportunity to chat with Jason Allen and Tim Colpo from Accenture about their Continuum Control Plane solution (powered by Splunk) - a.k.a. CCP. CCP introduces an agentic approach by creating a data foundation that connects siloed, cross-domain data and provides a semantic layer on top. It also lays… Read more →
Tags: Splunk AI Partner

Splunk 10 and Edge Processor

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There are a lot of great things in the Splunk 10.0 release, and one of those things is Edge Processor which lets you filter, mask, transform, route, etc. data in motion with SPL2 at the edge. I caught up with Michelle Moreira at Splunk .conf25 to have a quick chat about this great feature -… Read more →
Tags: Splunk

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