Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise New Interactive Visualizations, Analytics and Cloud Apps

Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise include new interactive visualizations and an open library on Splunkbase where customers and partners can develop and share their custom visualizations. Other new features in both platforms include enhanced big data analytics, improved query performance, platform security and management improvements. New cloud analytics apps are now available for Akamai Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and ServiceNow.

As more and more organizations collect, analyze and retain data at an astounding rate, storage is increasingly becoming the most expensive aspect of data analytics. Long-term data retention is becoming a critical issue as companies grapple with regulatory compliance, security investigations and the need to better understand long-term business trends.

“Splunk is passionate about making big data analytics more affordable for organizations of every size. Reducing the cost of historical data retention and analysis is a major part of delivering that value to our customers,” said Shay Mowlem, vice president of product marketing and management, Splunk. “Splunk Enterprise customers can now reduce storage costs for historical data by up to 80 percent for on-premises, cloud and hybrid deployments. We are also engineering long-term data archiving functionality into Splunk Cloud, which we expect to deliver later this year.”

“For many organizations, data retention costs are the single biggest factor driving analytics TCO. Splunk Enterprise addresses this problem with the new storage optimizations for historical data,” said Jason Stamper, analyst, 451 Research. “The new visualizations, analysis enhancements and storage cost reductions support Splunk's vision for cost-effective machine data analytics and platform strategy.”

“We are pleased Splunk is continuing to focus on innovating its platform to provide better visualization options and lower cost of ownership,” said Ed Bailey, enterprise architect, TransUnion. “The previous version of Splunk Enterprise doubled our performance, and now the new storage optimization abilities in Splunk Enterprise 6.4 can significantly lower our storage costs. We have compared costs to other solutions including open source and Splunk has a lower total cost of ownership.”

“We rely on Splunk Enterprise for real-time visibility into key business metrics such as order volume, value and completion rates to provide the smoothest possible customer experience,” said Andre Pietsch, product manager, Otto Group. “The new visualization library and developer framework in Splunk Enterprise 6.4 will make it even easier to create custom visualizations specific to our needs, especially around transaction monitoring. Ultimately, we will be able to make critical business decisions even faster.”

Lower Cost of Long-term Data Storage cut historical data storage costs with Splunk Enterprise by 40-80 percent, whether deployed on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment and enables users to selectively optimize the cost/performance of queries on their historical data.

Interactive Visualizations and Enhanced Analytics leverage portfolio of new pre-built visualizations and a new visualization library on Splunkbase. Easily create or customize visualizations using the new developer framework. Improved query performance and flexible data sampling options and enhanced predictive analytics: More accurately forecast trends and predict missing values.