{"id":163,"date":"2015-09-25T16:33:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/?p=163"},"modified":"2016-10-25T10:41:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:41:17","slug":"splunk-update-increases-monitoring-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/splunk-update-increases-monitoring-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Splunk Update Increases Monitoring Capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Splunk<\/a>Just this week, Splunk<\/a> unveiled their new platform, Splunk Enterprise 6.3, in Las Vegas. This new version includes a premium IT Service Intelligence service, which will largely accommodate businesses that employ on-site cloud or hybrid deployment.<\/p>\n

Splunk 6.3 allows for accelerated performance and event management while simultaneously diminishing the cost. This has been a major challenge for software enterprises, and so the update will be beneficial for DevOps<\/a> and Internet of Things (IoT) appliances.<\/p>\n

Clint Sharp, director of Splunk\u2019s product management, Big Data, and Operational Intelligence, announced that the price of Splunk Enterprise 6.3 hardware will be 50% less than that of its predecessor, Splunk Enterprise 6.0.<\/p>\n

Tim Grieser, research VP at IDC<\/a>, says that Splunk\u2019s new platform will ensure \u201cfaster search and analytics performance, and support for new high-volume event collection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Enterprises with high-velocity IoT<\/a> and DevOps<\/a> usage will find this advantage appealing, and it will enable them to enhance their manageability.<\/p>\n

In order to provide support for large amounts of data collection, Splunk Enterprise also released its new HTTP event collector. This feature allows Splunk to employ a standard API for applications and devices to efficiently and directly execute events to Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud. The HTTP event collector can be utilized through a multitude of services, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS Lambda<\/a>), Docor<\/a>, Citrix Octoblu<\/a>, and Xively<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Patrick Hofmann, head of IT and deputy CIO of PostFinance<\/a>, asserts that Splunk\u2019s new platform will drive value and effectively improve fraud detection and security.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new features in Splunk Enterprise 6.3 allow us to optimize search and reporting performance across our data centers with total confidence in the availability of our data. Now, with the expected doubling of the speed of our searches, we can get the insights we rely on faster than ever,\u201d Hofman asserts.<\/p>\n

The Splunk Enterprise 6.3 includes a myriad of new features, such as:<\/p>\n