While at Splunk .conf25, I had the opportunity to have a chat with Will Leschber from TekStream Solutions (Splunk Global Joint Selling Partner of the Year) to get his perspectives on the latest announcements from the show and how they help drive innovation for joint customers of TekStream and Splunk. From the new Splunk Machine Data Lake, to AI Canvas, to Agentic SOC - the future is bright for customers!

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Hey everyone, we’re out here at docom and I ran into Will here from Techstream partner of the year and we’re at day three now and there’s been a lot of excitement, a lot of announcements. What have you seen that really got you going, got you excited? >> Yeah, so first of all, global partner of the year. Pretty exciting, right? So just being recognized on a global level um just really gets our name out a lot more and uh just super appreciative of the relationship with Splunk, all of our customers and the Splunk team. you know, it’s been a long journey. I think like 10 or 11 years and um so number one excited about that. So we appreciate the opportunity. Number two, like a few things I saw in the keynote really excite me. So the introduction of data lake, which is something that a lot of our competitors do now, which is something that we’ve always needed with Splunk is exciting. Uh really enjoyed the demo of AI canvas. Um the ability to do some more automation and AI um within the sock to make their jobs a little bit easier and more efficient, I think is going to be really a game changer for us. So those are the two things that I really liked about the night one keynote. >> Yeah. So you’re out there doing services for customers. You got your studentled sock, you got managed services. So many things. Where can I go as a customer and get some more information about all the great things you do? >> Yeah, definitely. So our website has got a lot of great information on it, a lot of use cases. So ww.textream.com tek sam.com. Um social media is great. So we have a massive LinkedIn following. you know, little tech streams about 250 employees and I think we have maybe 125,000 followers, maybe 130,000 followers. We post a lot of blogs, post a lot of like free, useful information. You know, we just want people to use Splunk. We want them to use it the most efficient way they can and they get a lot of value out of it. So, yeah, check us out. >> Fantastic. Thanks so much for your time. >> Thank you, Jason. Appreciate it, man.