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Splunk's Kamal Hathi recaps our innovation highlights from .conf25, marking a pivotal moment for Splunk and Cisco as we deliver significant new value to our customers that make the use of AI a practical reality in their organizations.
Featured Articles
Splunk Enterprise Security: Built to Empower Every SOC Analyst
Announcing a transformative update to Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) with 8.2: An AI-powered SecOps platform designed to unify and accelerate threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) in one seamless experience.
Powering AI Innovation with Splunk: Meet the Cisco Data Fabric
The Cisco Data Fabric brings AI-centric advancements to the Splunk Platform, seamlessly connecting knowledge, business, and machine data.
A Recap of .conf25 Splunk Observability Announcements
At .conf25, we unveiled new capabilities in Splunk Observability Cloud that redefine digital resilience in the AI era with smarter detection and investigation of business-critical issues.
Machine Data: Fighting Fire With Fire for Digital Resilience
Kamal Hathi shares how Cisco and Splunk are helping organizations manage the explosion of machine data and AI-driven complexity, delivering real-time digital resilience to counter threats at machine speed and scale.
Introducing Splunk 10: Empowering a Secure and Compliant Future
Announcing the general availability of Splunk Enterprise 10.0 and Splunk Cloud Platform 10.0, the most secure, stable, and modernized platform for a digitally resilient, compliance-ready future.
Splunk Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms for the third year in a row.
.conf & .conf Go
In Case You Missed It: 2025 Splunkie Award Winners Announced at .conf25!
Cue the data-powered drumroll – here are your 2025 Splunkie Award winners announced at .conf25!
Monitor Cloud-Native & Hybrid Apps and Business Transactions With Observability Cloud APM
Introducing new capabilities in Splunk Observability Cloud to strengthen APM for cloud-native applications and extend support for hybrid environments.
Strengthen SOC Defenses with Native UEBA in Splunk Enterprise Security
Splunk's enhanced UEBA capability, now natively available in ES, empowers SOCs to transition from reactive, fragmented workflows to a proactive, behavior-driven security posture.
Introducing Event iQ: Smarter Event Correlation in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
Let AI help your team stay ahead of incidents – not buried in alerts – with Event iQ in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI).
Monitor the Health, Performance, and Security of Your AI Application Stack with AI Agent and AI Infrastructure Monitoring
Introducing AI Infrastructure Monitoring and AI Agent Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud and AppDynamics LLM Monitoring – providing visibility and protection across your AI stack.
Instrumentation Your Way: Introducing a Combined Splunk AppDynamics Agent
The updated AppDynamics Agent provides customers with a common agent to collect telemetry data for use in either Splunk AppDynamics or Splunk Observability Cloud.
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SIEM: Security Information & Event Management Explained
SIEM is a cybersecurity game-changer, especially for large organizations. Learn key SIEM features and functions & how to choose the right SIEM tool.
IT and Technology Spending & Budgets for 2025: Trends & Forecasts
Tech & IT spending is on the rise in 2025 across the globe. Read more on investment trends and see which regions will spend the most.
What Are SLMs? Small Language Models, Explained
Large language models have changed the world. What about small language models? Learn what SLMs are, how they differ from LLMs, and why SLMs are the future.
Telemetry 101: An Introduction To Telemetry
Telemetry is powerful data that can tell you all sorts of important information. Know what you can do with this useful data — get the full telemetry 101 here.
What are SaaS, PaaS, & IaaS?
Yes, the cloud makes work better. But which cloud model is right for you? Understand how SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS works in this ultimate guide.
What is Observability? An Introduction
In this blog post, we'll look at definitions, best practices, and key concepts around Observability in IT.
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Art of Data: Resilience in F1
As we gear up to the summer F1 races with Canada this weekend before F1 heads to Europe, we sat down with Lando Norris and new McLaren driver Oscar Piastri to discover what makes them both tick on and off the track.
The Purple Team: Combining Red & Blue Teaming for Cybersecurity
Learn how purple teams bridge the gap between offensive and defensive security strategies, and are helping organizations identify and mitigate risks effectively
Splunk Welcomes Alexandra Turbitt as the New General Vice President of its EMEA Partner Organisation
Get to know Splunk's new GVP of Splunk’s EMEA Partner Organisation, Alexandra Turbitt.
Detecting DNS Exfiltration with Splunk: Hunting Your DNS Dragons
DNS data is an all-too-common place for threats. Find out how to use Splunk to hunt for threats in your DNS. We will slay those DNS dragons.
Authentication vs. Authorization
Discover the fundamental differences between authentication and authorization, explore techniques, and best practices to implement robust security measures.
How Digital Fingerprinting Tracks, Identifies & Affects Us
Everything you do on the internet leaves behind pieces of data, these make up your digital fingerprint. Here's what to know about managing your privacy online.
Pipelines Full of Context: A GitLab CI/CD Journey
CI/CD solutions are great. But, how can they enrich our observability practices? Find out how to leverage DevOps data from GitLab CI in Splunk.
What is Patch Management?
Fending off cyberattacks requires preemptive action. Automating and controlling patch deployment helps safeguard against vulnerabilities in your IT systems.
What is a Data Scientist?
From predictive modeling to AI-driven systems, data scientists harness data to make informed decisions and drive innovation. Here's all you need to know about the role.
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