— Written by Beth Bischoff, Michael Mullery and Drew Shanahan My colleagues and I jokingly follow the Fight Club rule when talking with business and IT leaders about artificial intelligence: The first rule of AI is you don’t talk about AI. When people hear the phrase “artificial intelligence,” they often imagine complicated, expensive solutions, their…

Retailers are practically swimming in data. No matter whether a retailer is all-online or runs a brick-and-mortar store — or whether it’s a tech leader or laggard — virtually everyone handles a wide variety of data: inventory information, customer payment data, loyalty programs that incorporate buying histories, employee payroll data and countless other sources of…

In a busy mall, someone drops a bag and walks away. How long will it be before security staff notice? And when they do, how long will it take police to identify the person who dropped the bag if it turns out to contain something dangerous, such as a bomb? With a video surveillance system,…

Between next-generation technologies such as software-defined networking, a never-ending flood of Internet of Things devices and a threefold increase in data traffic through 2021, enterprise IT environments keep getting bigger, busier and more complex. Add in the chronic shortage of IT professionals, and it’s clear that enterprises need a new, fundamentally different way of managing…

In the previous installment in this blog series, I discussed the practical applications of using IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) technologies in the real world. In this installment, I’ll introduce Splunk and discuss how its platform delivers the benefits of ITOA. Introducing Splunk Splunk unleashes the power of machine data to help with IT operations, application…

Many businesses know some portions of their data are extremely valuable, while others have no value. The problem is, they often don’t know how to identify, much less take advantage of, data that can make a difference. The Internet of Things exacerbates this dilemma by giving organizations even more data to store and sift through….