Splunk Internet of Things Roundtable 2015

Editor's Notes

• #3: Splunk safe harbor statement.
• #4: At Splunk, our mission is to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. And this overarching mission is what drives our company and product priorities.
• #5: Splunk has more than 1,400 employees worldwide, with our global headquarters in San Francisco. Our 9,500+ customers in 100 countries are using Splunk software and cloud services to improve service levels, reduce operations costs, mitigate security risks, enable compliance, enhance DevOps collaboration and create new product and service offerings. Our products are designed to fit your needs and are built to be as frictionless to deploy as possible. Simple download Splunk software, or sign up for the online sandbox, point it at your data, and you’ll up and running in minutes. Please always refer to latest company data found here: http://www.splunk.com/company.
• #6: Splunk is the platform for machine data, it digests all machine data and allow users to quickly analyze their data and rapidly obtain insight. The platform was designed around the premise of being able to consume any machine data even if the format changes. A relational database would cannot effectively support constantly changing underlying schemas. Splunk solves this by creating a schema on the fly… Splunk Cloud is only available in the U.S. and Canada.
• #7: It can do this because it has no back-end RDBMS. This allows users to ask new questions of their data without having to worry if their schema supports it. Splunk ingests files regardless of their format, structure, or type. It provides integrated, end-to-end capabilities to collect, store, analyze and manage machine data - real-time and historical - in a single solution. This also means you don’t have to filter the data and you can forward data from anything.
• #8: Both IT and business professionals can analyze machine data to get real-time visibility and operational intelligence. With our platform for machine data, organizations can meaningfully improve their performance in a wide range of areas e.g. meet service levels, reduce costs, mitigate security risks, maintain compliance and gain insights.
• #12: Customer comsumption pattern Add more specifics Words need to tbe tighted up Improve graphics…
• #13: Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (www.comcast.com) is one of the world’s leading media, entertainment and communications companies. Comcast has many different Splunk use cases. One of their use cases involves taking data from the set-top boxes to gain real time insights in to customer interaction with content served up by the set top box. Each set top box has a media access control (MAC) address that is unique and is associated with a specific customer. The set top box is capturing all customer interaction with device including which content the customer searched for, what the date of search was, what search results were displayed (this information is recorded a unique identifiers called IDA numbers) and what content was purchased. However, the set top box does not have any information on the customer including their profile. That information is stored in the billing system. Comcast is using Splunk to correlate data across set top boxes and billing systems to gain real-time business insights. Using the correlation criteria of MAC address, content displayed in search and time of purchase, Comcast is gaining a broad range of business insights into their customers. For example, these insights are helping Comcast understand revenues driven by search. By overlaying this information with geo location data, they are able to improve content mix and drive higher monetization. These insights are also helping Comcast improve content promotion based on region. Comcast is using the Splunk and Hadoop integration to visualize Comcast setbox log information. The setbox data comes to Hadoop, get pre processed and moved to Splunk for visualization.  Hadoop Input = High volume of data from many systems along a complex workflow, Developers expressing artistic prerogative on log formats, Many different data sources and formats Splunk Output = Drive operational intelligence, Improve user experience, Troubleshooting, root cause analysis, Track and measure success, Reports, alarms
• #14: New York Air Brake’s Train Dynamic Systems Division is using Splunk to manage inter-train forces, the “slinky factor” inherent in large freight trains with 6 inches of flex between cars. With Splunk, they are able to produce insight and reports allowing the owners of the locomotives they manage to better train the engineers, and better manage the acceleration and braking of the trains throughout thousand mile journeys. Managing this data with Splunk, they can produce 1% fuel savings for customers. For their largest customers this can mean a billion dollars in savings a year.
• #15: Robert Bosch Healthcare provides products, systems and services that support patients with chronic conditions and help older folks in their homes. Those who can’t get out to see the doctor rely on Robert Bosch to bring healthcare to them.  More than 50,000 patients connect to their healthcare providers on a daily basis using Bosch medical devices.   They use Splunk in a fascinating way:   Bosch has gained real-time diagnostic access to the thousands of “Health Buddy” medical devices / patient interfaces in the field, thereby gaining invaluable operational intelligence to improve the customer experience and overall efficiency Bosch support personnel can detect and correct runtime errors in the medical devices in real time, rather than waiting for patients to complain Lastly, Bosch is using Splunk to ensure the safety and security of patients’ confidential medical information, especially as some of it might be transmitted over insecure channels such as mobile networks
• #16: At CeBit2014, Volkswagen’s Data Lab chose splunk to demonstrate the power of the machine data generated by their next generation of electric vehicle – the e-up. There are some very interesting concepts and innovations in this dashboard. First is its capability to replay any vehicle’s journey for the selected time range. In the lower left, you can see the scrub controls, and vehicle activity is marked by a simple histogram.  All available sensors on the vehicle are “played back” in real-time or fast-forward mode, including vehicle speed, engine RPM, battery status, vehicle range, outdoor temperature, door and headlight status. This is a really great example of Splunk’s capabilities as a developer platform. Using Splunk 6’s built in web framework, a web developer was quickly able to develop an engaging and compelling dashboard in far less time than it would have taken using traditional or competing web data frameworks.
• #17: The Splunk platform consists of multiple products and deployment models to fit your needs. Splunk Enterprise – for on-premise deployment Splunk Cloud – Fully managed service with 100% SLA and all the capabilities of Splunk Enterprise…in the Cloud Splunk Light – log search and analytics for small IT environments Hunk – for analytics on data in Hadoop The products can pull in data from virtually any source to support multiple use cases. Splunk Apps extend and simplify deployments by providing pre-packaged content designed for specific use cases and data types.
• #18: How to show that Splunk it also investing into these areas, where we are putting resources and money Ecosystem slide can come right after it.. One column for data ingestion Data Storage Data Analytics Data Visualization