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Splunk releases its newest report, State of Observability 2025: The Rise of a New Business Catalyst.
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Splunk Ranked Number 1 in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Security Information and Event Management Use Cases
Splunk has been ranked as the #1 SIEM solution in all three Use Cases for the second consecutive time in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Security Information and Event Management report.
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.
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Powering and Protecting the AI Revolution: A New Era for Splunk and Cisco at .conf25
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.
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.
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.
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!
Announcing the 2025 Splunk Partner Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2025 Splunk Partner Awards winners and our entire partner community on an outstanding year!
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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.
Latest Articles
Mean Time To Acknowledge: What MTTA Means and How & Why To Improve It
Learn about the mean time to acknowledge (MTTA) metric in IT and networking incidents, including how to improve this time along with other reliability metrics.
Fleet First for Better Developer Experience and Faster Software Delivery
Take a lesson in developer experience and managing software at scale through automation from Google and Spotify.
Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse: Definitions, Key Differences, and How to Integrate Data Storage Solutions
Data Lake vs Data Warehouse, in this post, we are going to discuss what they are, their differences, some use cases, and more.
CapEx vs. OpEx for Cloud, IT Spending, and Business Operations: The Ultimate Guide
Learn about the key differences between CapEx and OpEx. Also, learn how to optimize costs and drive financial efficiency for your projects.
Idempotence & Idempotent Design in IT/Tech Systems
Idempotent design ensures that the outcome of an operation is the same whether it is executed once or multiple times. Get the full picture here.
Building Resilience with Energy Management for Industries
Energy and energy management are top of mind for all types of organizations to build resilience.
Read on to learn about a data-driven approach by unlocking a new observability use case: reducing energy costs, increasing energy efficiency and improving the carbon footprint for buildings, data centers and factories across industries.
Why Tool Sprawl is an Executive Problem—Own It Before It Owns You
Tool consolidation is crucial for streamlining software ecosystems and reducing redundancies — but it all starts with solid leadership.
What's new in Splunk DSDL 5.2: LLM-RAG functionalities and use cases
In this version 5.2 release of Splunk DSDL, we introduce new functionalities utilizing retrieval-augmented generation with local large language models and a vector database. In this blog, we provide an overview of various use cases supported through a set of DSDL commands and dashboards.
Splunk and the Cisco Store demonstrate the power of digital resilience at NRF 2025
Discover how Splunk and the Cisco Store showcase digital resilience at NRF 2025, featuring cutting-edge retail technologies like AI chatbots, Meraki Video, and real-time data analytics. Learn about personalized customer experiences and the importance of innovation and security in the evolving retail landscape.
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