Dive Brief:
- Operational intelligence specialist Splunk announced two new offerings to enable companies to improve data monitoring and analytics, CIO reports.
- Splunk Enterprise 6.3 can help companies scale data collection for DevOps and IoT devices, while Splunk IT Service Intelligence is designed to deliver a unified view of IT services.
- Both products are designed to lower the cost of management.
Dive Insight:
Splunk Enterprise 6.3 is focused on high-volume event collection for DevOps and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and also features a new HTTP event collector to allow end-user devices to send millions of events per second to Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud.
"Splunk's new platform release, with faster search and analytics performance and support for new high-volume event collection, should appeal to organizations with high-velocity DevOps and IoT use cases," Tim Grieser, research vice president at IDC, said. "With this release, Splunk is continuing to make enhancements that can lower total cost of ownership and that improve enterprise manageability."
Splunk also unveiled Splunk IT Service Intelligence, which provide visibility into the health of IT services. It can provide CIOs and IT teams a unified view of their IT services using analytics to highlight anomalies.
