Arguably the first widely used big data tool, Splunk provides the kind of end-to-end user experience open source solutions lack All essential data infrastructure these days is open source. Or rather, ...

No conversation on log analytics can occur without beginning with Splunk. But is open-source ELK overtaking the company? A different point of view Trying to understand open source adoption is a ...

There's increasing noise that Splunk faces a challenge from cheaper open source alternatives. But how much of a threat is it? Splunk's Brian Gilmore gives his perspective. If you type the words 'open ...

Systems search start-up Splunk Monday shipped a software add-on to enable Nagios open source monitoring software users to more quickly pinpoint the source of performance problems. Splunk earlier this ...

In the age of big data, log management is becoming an absolute necessity, as developers, operations, and, yes, DevOps have to deal with and process huge amounts of machine-generated data. Many ...

As homeowners and realtors track the dynamic U.S. housing market, platforms like the online real estate database Zillow are seeing surges in traffic as buyers and sellers keep tabs on which properties ...

In August last year I wrote about Splunk, an enterprise startup that developed a search engine that captures IT data (logs, config files, message queues, SNMP, transactions, etc.) and classifying them ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Splunk startup competitor Logz.io has been rolling out new tools and new projects on the back of its seemingly ...

Today AlienVault, the sponsor company of the open source security intelligence tool OSSIM, announced that it has hired former HP Fortify team members Barmak Meftah and Roger Thornton. Meftah, who was ...

A group of tech companies led by AWS and Splunk have come together in an open source effort to combat cybersecurity attacks. The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) project is meant to help ...