Honeycomb’s “Next Generation App!” adds enormous value to your Palo Alto Firewall. As with any firewall they are not designed with the intention of storing the information for long periods of time, this is where Honeycomb’s Palo Alto LexApp becomes … Read this post »

ReadWriteWeb.com – 17 January 2012

A new report by Palo Alto Networks that analyzes data captured by their customers’ firewalls last year shows that 70 different social networks used by more than 1500 of their customers still only account for … Read this post »

With the release of Splunk 4.3 one of the features that got some attention was the event creation so I thought I’d quickly show how they can affect you. I’m going to take a very simple search using data captured by … Read this post »

At Splunk, ‘dot’ releases get you a lot and our newly minted Splunk 4.3 is no exception. I’ve spoken to many 4.3 beta customers in North America, Europe and Asia and they’re all excited. Customers such as Expedia, Swisscom, Ceryx … Read this post »

New York Times – December 2011

The idea of big data goes something like this: In a world of ever-increasing digital connectivity, ever larger mountains of data are produced by our cellphones, computers, digital cameras, RFID readers, smart meters and … Read this post »

Splunk customers typically achieve an ROI measured in weeks or months, sometimes even before deploying Splunk into production. The source of ROI varies as much as how they use Splunk — keeping critical web services up and running, lowering operations … Read this post »

Splunk Press Release

This new offering will enable Splunk users to leverage the archiving and specialised analytics of Hadoop and will deliver Splunk’s real-time enterprise capabilities and ease-of-use to Hadoop developers.… Read this post »