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Migrating to Splunk Cloud was another critical move. “Splunk Cloud delivers benefits of Splunk Enterprise on an as-a-service basis that minimizes administrative overhead,” says Dr. Louisa Lam, chief information officer and university librarian at Lingnan University. “By doing this, it gives us the peace of mind we have never had when using the on-premises model, so that we no longer have to worry about whether we had enough IT resources and capacity to cope with data growth.”
Lingnan University has also used Splunk to automate threat hunting and successfully increased the accuracy to beyond 80%. The ISS team now enjoys full automated visibility into IT operations. This helps minimize disruptions, protect digital assets, ensure continuous operations, and boost digital resilience, which is of top importance to Lingnan University’s smart campus development. With actionable insights from historical data, Splunk helps the institution identify usage trends, speed up root cause analysis, and foresee risks and needs. The university can now take early steps on system planning and configuration while generating reports and predictive alerts to ensure system availability.
Splunk Cloud delivers benefits of Splunk Enterprise on an as-a-service basis that minimizes administrative overhead.
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Splunk gives Lingnan University the scalability to build effective IT operations, which creates a stronger foundation for future growth. Dr. Lam takes log management as an example. “The previous manual-based model did not allow us to focus on all logs simultaneously, with priority going to on-premises and alert logs. With proactive visibility through Splunk, we can handle double the types of logs.”
With Splunk, Lingnan can provide a better learning environment for students and educators. The ISS team appreciates Splunk’s customer-centric team members, who proactively review use cases and offer optimal advice on areas where Splunk can be applied. Moving forward, Lingnan University will continue to explore using AI and machine learning to get further predictive insights from the Splunk platform. Splunk will keep playing a key role in the university’s future IT roadmap to meet multifacted data analytical demands and integrate cutting-edge technology as a leading university in Asia.
