Splunk First Annual Worldwide Users' Conference Highlights Customer Success
Presentations by Prominent Customers Including Salesforce.com, VMware, Cisco, Autodesk, Sandia Labs and Others
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Splunk today announced its inaugural Splunk Worldwide Users' Conference is under-way and runs through Aug. 11 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The conference has brought together Splunk users, partners and developers from sixteen countries to share real-world best practices and ideas for better managing, securing and auditing IT environments.
Splunk president and CEO Godfrey Sullivan and other senior executives will present during the keynote sessions on Splunk's strategy, plans and roadmap. The keynotes will highlight how customers are moving beyond solving point problems using Splunk for "IT Search" to using Splunk enterprise-wide and achieving new levels of operational visibility. With the help of Splunk, these organizations are moving IT from support and reactive roles to become agile and more strategic. The keynote sessions will also discuss how Splunk is enabling customers to leverage the shift to cloud computing and company investment of the growing Splunk Community.
Additionally, Splunk customers will present how they're using Splunk to unlock the value hidden in their IT data. These masters of Splunk come from organizations including Salesforce.com, VMware Autodesk, Heroku and Cisco and will share their best practices for IT management, security, compliance and operational visibility. Featured customer presentations include:
- "Splunk for a SaaSy Enterprise," or how Splunk helps Salesforce.com monitor and manage its SaaS/cloud-delivered infrastructure - Salesforce.com
- "Using Splunk to Provide Business Value Outside of IT," or how Splunk helps make IT data relevant for non-technical business users - Autodesk
- "Heroku and Splunk," or how they've deployed Splunk to manage and monitor their "always on" cloud platform infrastructure - Heroku
- "Managing an Enterprise Deployment: Lessons Learned and Best Practices," or how Splunk manages VMware's virtual infrastructure - VMware
- "Cisco's CSIRT Team Shows Off the Splunk for Cisco App," or how Cisco uses Splunk worldwide for cyber security - Cisco
The Splunk Worldwide Users' Conference features seven tracks where attendees can focus on getting the most out of their deployment of Splunk:
- Administering and Deploying Splunk
- Splunk In-depth
- Operational Insights
- Customer Success
- Solution Areas
- Developing with-and-on Splunk
- IT Trends–What's Hot
The official hashtag of the Splunk Worldwide Users' Conference is #splunkconf.
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About Splunk
Splunk is the world's leading software used to monitor, report and analyze live streaming IT data as well as terabytes of historical data -- located on-premise or in the cloud. Almost half of the Fortune 100 and more than 1,800 enterprises, service providers and government organizations in 70 countries use Splunk to improve service levels, reduce IT operations costs, mitigate security risks, and drive new levels of operational visibility. For a new approach to IT, visit http://www.splunk.com, or visit http://www.splunk.com/download to download a free copy.
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