Big Data and Splunk

Nowadays, almost every action we take leaves a digital trail. We generate data whenever we go online, when we carry our GPS-equipped smartphones, when we communicate with our friends through social media or chat applications, and when we shop. You could say we leave digital footprints with everything we do that involves a digital action, which is almost everything. On top of this, the amount of machine-generated data is rapidly growing too. Data is generated and shared when our “smart” home devices communicate with each other or with their home servers. Industrial machinery in plants and factories around the world are increasingly equipped with sensors that gather and transmit data.

Big Data is a term used to describe a collection of data that is huge in size and yet growing exponentially with time. Such data is so large and complex that none of the traditional data management tools are able to store it or process it efficiently.

It all starts with machine data.Machine data is the big data generated by
all the technologies that power our businesses.From the applications, servers, websites, and network devices in the data center and the cloud, to the mobile device in the palm of your hand.

Splunk is a software platform that indexes machine data and turns it into accessible, actionable intelligence.

Splunk software collects and indexes this data at massive scale, from wherever it’s generated, regardless of format or source. Users can quickly and easily monitor, search, analyze, and report on their data, all in real time.
Machine data is different. It can’t be processed and analyzed using traditional methods. Splunk software does not rely on brittle schemas and inflexible databases. Splunk is easy to deploy, easy to use, and easy to scale, whether on premises or in a public, private, or hybrid cloud.

Splunk has good solutions for unstructured data space. Splunk can make machine produced data smoother, better, speedier and less expensive regardless of whether it is of organization’s own IT framework or of a cloud platform. In the background of what you see on twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, you tube or in some other site, the core of data situates in a concealed world of unstructured data. Splunk gives intuitive, intelligent and human-driven examination for operational intelligence. Splunk also has a great many features like log processing, and also has a wide indexing flexibility.