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- Splunk adds change-management and Windows support to IT search software
- IT search company Splunk today added to its arsenal of tools for IT managers with the launch of Splunk for Change Management, an application to audit and detect configuration and changes, and Splunk for Windows, which indexes all data generated by Windows servers and applications. The San...
- Tags: Service Desk, Application, Audit, Information Technology, Splunk, Microsoft Windows, Change Management, Podcasts, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Tools & Techniques, Management, Internet, Finance, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- IT search and SCM search may together bridge the design time-run time divide
- Productivity improvements in software development and deployment strategies will ultimately have to reckon with the lingering lack of feedback between design time and run time. Software is still a hand-off affair, with developed applications getting tossed into production with little collaboration between the builders and the operators...
- Tags: Software, Application, Information Technology, SCM, Splunk, Krugle, Tools & Techniques, Asset Management, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Splunk goes 'platform' to extend IT search benefits across more IT management functions
- Gaining more insights early and often into what vast arrays of servers, routers and software stacks are actually doing has long been on the top of the IT wish list. Traditional IT management approaches force the trade-off been depth and comprehensive reach, meaning you can't get the full, integrated picture...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Application, IT Administration, Information Technology, Goal, Benefit, Splunk, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Splunk (PPC) (1)
- Splunk is software that indexes and manages all your logs and IT data. From apache logs, sendmail logs, syslog, router log files and Custom log files. System administrators, developers and even business users can search, navigate, alert and report on logs and IT data from any application, server or network...
- Tags: Information Technology, Splunk, Strategy, Networking, Management
- Software downloads 2008-02-15
- Splunk For Windows (1)
- The companys freely downloadable software indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server, or network device in real time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps, alerts, scripts, and metrics. If a machine can generate it--Splunk can eat it. Its easy to download, install, and use. And...
- Tags: Compliance, Splunk, Business Services, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Management
- Software downloads 2007-12-03
- Splunk (1)
- Splunk is software that indexes and manages all your logs and IT data. From apache logs, sendmail logs, syslog, router log files and Custome log files. System administrators, developers and even business users can search, navigate, alert and report on logs and IT data from any application, server or network...
- Tags: Information Technology, Splunk, Strategy, Networking, Management
- Software downloads 2007-12-03
- Splunk 3.0 drills deeper into IT data
- Splunk continues to ramp up what it calls an "IT search engine," which captures log data and other kinds of information that can help identify problems and provide proof of compliance with various regulations, such as Sarbannes-Oxley and the Payment Card Industry standard. Splunk is somewhat like a Google search...
- Tags: Datacenter, General, IT Management, Search
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Splunk gets a blind date -- and generates serious indexing romance -- with AOL's search data trove
- Throw something up on the Web and you never know what someone might do with it. That proverb of unintended positive consequences was proven yet again this week by the targeting of the power of the Splunk computer log indexing-and-search capability onto the trove of the recently released, mostly (but...
- Tags: Splunk
- Blog posts 2006-08-18
- Splunk Professional 2.0
- In complex IT systems something is always broken somewhere. Continuously finding and fixing problems is a fact of life. Splunk is search software that indexes and links together all the fast moving IT data as it happens. From one place search and navigate ALL the logs and other types of...
- Tags: Information Technology, Splunk, Splunk Professional, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-05-18
- Splunk Base converges openness, Wikis, and searchable systems log data into a new reliability resource
- The folks at Splunk have done a value mashup with the roll-out this week of Splunk Base, a new resource for datacenter, network, and systems administrators. Taking a cue from open source projects, Splunk Base is an open Creative Commons-licensed repository of Wikis that with volume adoption should give systems...
- Tags: Splunk Base
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- Splunk planning IT troubleshooting wikipedia
- Splunk planning IT troubleshooting wikipediaSmall noteJust a small note -- "Wikipedia" is a registered trademark name used by the Wikimedia Foundation for its encyclopedia projects. It is not a generic word, and should not be used generically for any wiki or collaborative project, and should never be used without...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Splunk, information technology
- Discussion threads 2006-03-05
- Splunk planning IT troubleshooting Wikipedia-like service
- 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 into events, indexing them by time, keyword, type and relationships between events. Splunk has been seeding the market with...
- Tags: Splunk
- Blog posts 2006-03-01
- A search engine for system admins
- While roaming the exhibit hall at LinuxWorld, I ran into Michael Baum of Splunk. A serial entrepreneur and former e-commerce exec at Yahoo and Infoseek, Baum has spent nearly three years developing a search engine for log files and machine-generated data. Splunk classifies and indexes log data from whatever devices...
- Tags: Splunk, Michael Baum
- Blog posts 2005-08-10
Additional Resources
- Roundup: Interop Las Vegas 2008
- The big takeaway from the product fiesta that is Interop Las Vegas 2008 is that 10 GB Ethernet has finally arrived. Sister site TechRepublic has multiple folks on the scene at Mandalay Bay, here's a look at some of the key items (roundup): Implement...
- Tags: Copper, Termination, NetGear, Access Point, Change Management, Leadership, Home Networking, Workforce Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Networking, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- News to know: Microhoo; Taming Vista UAC; iPhone; Google; CIO Sessions
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UAC. Images: Taming Vista's User Account Control (right) Larry Dignan: Microhoo: Wall Street gets antsy Mary Jo Foley: XP SP3 delayed by glitch New test releases...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Vista UAC, Jason O'Grady, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, 3G, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Open source a Pull-a-Part yard?
- Open source a Pull-a-Part yard?So what if you want......support? In the corporate environments I've worked in, management has always insisted on support agreements, sla's etc. So who do you call for support when you have a stack of multiple products that you mashed together to build your solution?...
- Tags: SourceForge, Pull-a-Part, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-01-15
- More hints that IT systems analysis and on-demand models are coming together
- The hot (albeit not necessarily sexy) segment of IT operations -- the analysis and intelligence-gathering from logs and performance management data -- is showing increasing signs of an on-demand future. First, Paglo came out last month (in beta) with a free and open source (GPL) crawler service...
- Tags: Analytics, Information Technology, On-demand, Data, Analysis, Paglo, LogLogic, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- News to know: Google's developer's day; Novell details Microsoft pact; Alienware gallery
- Notable headlines:Ed Burnette: Google Developer Day sneak peek with Bret Taylor.Russell Shaw: Google patent app shows extensive Google plans for mobile search.Dell Offers Three Consumer Systems With Ubuntu 7.04.Novell to detail Microsoft patent pact. Novell joins EFF for patent reform.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Three more things that the Linux community doesn't get.Review:...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- As IT gains needed maturity, role of software nears tipping point
- The act of creating software may be going on 50 years old, but its still an immature pursuit. A few current events in the market, however, offer indicators that the software-as-lifecycle concept may shove development practices over a tipping point to an era of intense and needed transformation.A number of...
- Tags: Open Source, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Enterprise Java, SOA, SOA Governance, Microsoft, Software Development, Eclipse, IBM, IDEs, Developer Tools, HP, Testing Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development, .NET, software
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Why Splunk?
- Many solutions have been suggested for the problem of availability in increasingly complex infrastructures. Unfortunately most of these approaches focus on introspecting individual components or pile on even more complexity, which is odd because components on their own are fairly resilient and it's complexity that continues to perpetuate the availability...
- Tags: Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-05-15
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