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Big Data Beard episodes

  • Ensuring resilience for industrial IOT with Arcus Data and Splunk

    From candy bars to industrial IOT, Arcus Data’s CEO Josh Hritz talks about the exciting use cases for the Splunk Edge Hub. Arcus Data has been a long time Splunk Partner and has created numerous solutions that help companies get the most out of their data with Splunk. The Big Data Beard team sits down with Josh to dive into some of these use cases and how the Splunk Edge Hub is helping solve the most complex industrial IOT challenges. 


    15 min
  • Bitcoin Mining Operations Resilience

    The Big Data Beard team puts on their hard hats and dives into the world of bitcoin mining to see how Splunk and Fulcrum have ppartnered together to create a powerful solution for bitcoin mining farms. The team hears from Fulcrum’s Director of Security Analytics, John Owen, how Fulcrum is using the Splunk Edge Hub to help farms to optimize their operations, reduce costs, improve energy efficiency, enhance equipment performance, and ultimately increase their profitability.

    10 min
  • Racing to Resilience with McLaren and Splunk

    The Big Data Beard team dives into the Data Drivers program and Splunk and talks about role data plays in giving the McLaren F1 and Esports teams a competitive advantage. Joined by Robert Castley, the team talks about how they Splunked the racing data and some of their favorite insights.

    16 min
  • Securing OT (and Chicken Coops) with Optiv and Splunk Edge Hub

    What do chicken coops and Operational Technology have in common? The Big Data Beard team sits down with Sean Tufts to hear about how Optiv is using the Splunk Edge Hub to secure OT environments. Sean talks about the future of OT Security, the impact of AI and some interesting use cases. The team learns about how Sean used the Splunk Edge Hub to secure his chicken coop and much more. 

    16 min
  • Connecting Splunk to Generative AI

    The Big Data Beard team dives into the world of Generative AI and explores how Generative AI can be used with Splunk. The team chats with the founder of Splunkable, Michael Camp Bentley and creator of the Splunk Add-On for ChatGPT. Michael shares how the Splunk Add-on for ChatGPT works and the real world applications. The team discusses the growth and future of Generative AI and the implications for humanity. 

    16 min
  • We Are Back!!!

    After a 3 year hiatus, AI is still a thing?!? We had a feeling it might be...which is why The Big Data Beard team is back on the podcast wagon! Join Cory, Kyle and Brett on this episode explaining what's been going on since the last episode and catch a glimpse of what's in store for the team as we restart this party.


    Be sure to check out conf.splunk.com for all the details about Splunk's Annual User Conference and stay tuned for live-streamed episodes with the Beards live at Splunk .conf23!

    23 min
  • The Splunk Trust & Splunk Community with Ryan Plas - #VR2C
    It’s here!! Day 10 of 10 of our Virtual Race to .conf20 #VR2C! Today we chat about the Splunk Trust with Ryan Plas, Splunk Trust MVP. Ryan shares what it takes to earn one of the mythical Fez’s, and how to become a member of the Splunk Trust. He also shares some of his favorite tools and ways to engage with other Splunk users & partners. Love the Splunk community? Give this episode a listen.
    Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e10/)
    23 min
  • Splunk at Intel with Jac Noel & Merritte Stidston - #VR2C
    We are on day 9 of 10 of the Virtual Race to .conf20, #VR2C! We sat down with Jac Noel – Security Solutions Architect in Intel IT Information Security, & Merritte Stidston – Technical Solution Specialist in Intel’s data platforms sales group. We hear how Intel is using Splunk internally, as well as their partnership with architectures based on the latest Intel technology. Jax and Merritte share how Intel is catching the bad guys with Splunk and how Intel is working with Splunk to optimize Splunk for their customers. We also learn what key metrics customers are looking for with Splunk performance.
    Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e9/)
    29 min
  • Splunk Observability & OpenTelemetry with Karthik Rau - #VR2C
    We are on day 8 of or Virtual Race to .conf20 #VR2C. Today we hear about Karthik Rau, VP of Observability at Splunk. First we get a quick overview of what is observability and how Splunk is contributing to OpenTelemetry. Karhik also shares some of the standards needed for building a strong practice. To finish, we hear about how Splunk earned it’s spot in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for APM through it’s acquisition of SignalFX, Omnition and contributions to OpenTelemetry.
     
    Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e8/)
    26 min
  • Ethical Hacking and Splunk Security with Red River's Brian Clarke - #VR2C
    It’s day 7 of our Virtual Race to .conf20! #VR2C Today we chat with Brian Clarke – Security SME, Design Engineering for Red River Technology. Brian shares his history of ethical hacking, and tells us of some of the security challenges organizations are facing today. We also learn how Red River uses Splunk to help solve IOT and security problems for a number of their customers in the federal space. Brian also shares what he’s excited for at .conf20 and what to be on the lookout for!
    Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e7/)
    30 min

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