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Splunk Growing Fastest Among IT Operations Vendors in IDC’s Worldwide IT Operations Management Software Market Shares, 2017

We’re excited to share that Splunk has been ranked #2 in market share for IDC’s Worldwide IT Operations Management Software Market Shares, 2017 report
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Splunk Reaches #2 in Gartner's Top 10 Named ITOM Performance Analysis Software Vendors

Splunk reaches #2 in Gartner's Market Share Analysis: ITOM, Performance Analysis Software, Worldwide, 2017
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Tiered Storage in Apache Pulsar

A closer look at tiered storage, a new feature in Apache Pulsar 2.1 that allows Pulsar to offload cold data to low-cost external storage systems.
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Refining Real-Time Alerts with Compound Conditions

This post will explain one of our latest efforts to improve SignalFx alerts: the addition of compound conditions to the SignalFx detector creation UI.
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Amazon ECS or EKS? AppDynamics Supports Both

For enterprises that containerize their applications and want a simple way to deploy them in AWS, ECS is a good option. Or perhaps EKS would work best for you. And then there’s the EC2 vs. Fargate question. Decisions, decisions! Whichever path you choose, it’s easy to monitor your applications with AppDynamics.
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Splunk and VictorOps: Two Great Companies Working Towards One DevOps Vision

Splunk’s SVP of IT Markets, Rick Fitz, sits down for an exclusive Q&A with Todd Vernon, former CEO and co-founder of VictorOps
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Incremental-Decremental Methods for Time Series Analysis

This is an extended abstract of a research-track talk given by Joe at the Open Data Science Conference, East 2018 on the double exponential smoothing algorithm.
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The Pulsar Schema Registry

A dive into the new--and better--way for producers and consumers to keep current on the schema of data flowing through Pulsar.
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Pulsar Topic Compaction

A technical look at how topic compaction works in Apache Pulsar to provide consumers an efficient way to read current state for message keys.
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What’s the Key to Cloud Migration? A Little Birdy Told Us.

Learning a thing or two about cloud migration from our feathered friends.
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Apache Pulsar Reaches 2.0

Streamlio welcomes with open arms the most ambitious Pulsar release yet, replete with essential features and enhancements
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Ingest Nagios Alarms into Splunk ITSI Event Analytics

This post describes the steps to ingest Nagios Core alerts into ITSI Notable Events Review.
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Using Apache Pulsar as a Message Queue

Though typically seen as a pub-sub messaging system, Apache Pulsar's powerful durable storage capabilities make it ideal as a message queue
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Ingest Netcool Alerts into Splunk ITSI Event Analytics

Describing the steps to ingest IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus alerts into IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) Notable Events Review.
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The Extensibility of OpenMessaging Benchmarks

Creating and running a new cross-platform messaging benchmark workload from scratch
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Understanding The Causes of Negative Customer Experience

Diving into data to discover the causes of a negative customer experience
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3 Ways to Get Started With an AIOps Solution

Splunk's Rick Fitz explores best practices on how organizations can begin to gain value from an AIOps solution
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Introducing Pulsar Functions

An introduction to Pulsar Functions, the lightweight stream-native processing capability in Apache Pulsar
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How Apache Pulsar Ensures No Messages Lost and No Messages Duplicated

In this post we examine different delivery guarantees and explain how they are provided by Apache Pulsar, the messaging system at the heart of Streamlio’s intelligent platform.
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Effectively-Once Semantics in Apache Pulsar

"Exactly-once" is a controversial term in the messaging landscape. In this post we'll offer a detailed look at effectively-once delivery semantics in Apache Pulsar and how this is achieved without sacrificing performance.
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The Results Are In! What Are Your Peers Doing for IT Event Management?

Key findings from a recent Quocirca survey providing insight on how organizations cope with common event management pain points