

For Walmart, that’s a billion dollars a week if you can’t get their system to perform at the level it needs to.”ĭata in Splunk also figures prominently in assuring security. “Security is largely a human problem, but it’s represented by data,” Stephen Schmidt, chief information security officer of Amazon Web Services Inc., said in a keynote testimonial. conf that “one second of latency can have a 10% drop-off in fulfillment of a transaction. Indeed, Splunk Chief Executive Doug Merritt (pictured) pointed out in an interview with SiliconANGLE’s video studio theCUBE at. Splunk is part of Walmart’s core data plane, providing performance and security event monitoring and observability to anticipate customer experience issues and help it set a posture for disaster recovery contingencies. Of particular note, Koby Avital, executive vice president of Walmart Inc.’s global tech platform, discussed how the company deploys Kubernetes clusters onto regional “Triplets” of Azure, Google Cloud and private cloud resources to fulfill millions of daily omnichannel orders. and McLaren Automotive, which brought out its Formula 1 champion Lando Norris to discuss how the racing team leverages track data insights to win.

Sticking to the theme, Splunk positioned customer success stories from some of the world’s most innovative firms and institutions front and center, including Tesco PLC, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. conf21, with the broad theme of “Turning Data into Doing,” which seems appropriate given the massive security and observability data volumes the firm interprets into analytics and response actions for global companies. returned this week to the online format of its blockbuster annual event, Splunk.
