Splunk 4 – A powerful way to access IT infrastructure data
23/10/2009
Does your IT team spend valuable time hunting for the root cause of problems, investigating security attacks or gathering data for compliance audits?
If you have a complex web of IT infrastructure data scattered throughout the organisation, then it’s little surprise.
For large enterprises, the traditional silo approach to managing IT – with separate tools for every technology and IT function – is cumbersome, costly and cannot scale. It causes headaches for IT managers that need access to data in order to manage, secure and audit IT.
Splunk 4, the latest release from Splunk, is a panacea for system administrators. Its powerful, simple approach to indexing the data generated by all the applications, servers and network devices within your organisation lets you perform rapid search and analysis of IT infrastructure data.
“Splunk 4 sets a new benchmark for best practise in application management, operation management, and security and compliance,” said Bill Frangeskakis, General Manager, Frontline Systems Australia.
“The powerful search technology enables search and analysis of all your IT data from a single location in real time, which dramatically cuts the amount of time spent sifting through data.”
A simple solution to a raft of problems
Splunk makes perfect sense for organisations that produce large volumes of unstructured data, such as log files, as it indexes these and provides a time-based view of a particular event.
“Splunk summarises the gigabytes of data coming from various error logs – hardware, databases, networks and the like – so system administrators can pin-point problems much faster,” said Bill.
“With Splunk, we’ve seen a reduction in IT operational support escalations by up to 90% and problem resolution by up to 67%.”
It also addresses compliance issues for the Payment Card Industry (PCI). For any organisation with a credit card option for payment, PCI compliance is fast becoming a must-do on the compliance checklist.
Splunk is tailored to suit many environments and technologies common in IT infrastructures: Windows, Linux, Unix, Cisco and F5. This helps to speed deployment, improve performance and identify issues.
Splunk 4: speed and visibility
Users report key benefits across three areas:
- Application Management – dramatically reduces downtime and escalations for your production applications
- Operations Management – provides instant visibility and analysis across all your servers and network devices from one place
- Security & Compliance – improves your security posture, speed incident investigations and meet your compliance mandates.
Frontline has been working with Splunk for more than a year. We offer professional services around installation and customisation, as well as ongoing monitoring and maintenance of your Splunk system.
Need to know more?
Contact your Frontline Account Manager for a demonstration of how Splunk will fit into your IT environment - call 1300 362 610
Download a free 60-day trial of the Enterprise version of Splunk
