Big Data Beard

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Big Data Beard episodes:

07.20.2023
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...
07.20.2023
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...
07.20.2023
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...
07.20.2023
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...
07.20.2023
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...
07.11.2023
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...
10.19.2020
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...
10.18.2020
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...
10.17.2020
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....
10.16.2020
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...
10.15.2020
The Arrow Autonomous Race Car with Joshua Parrish - #VR2C
We are at Daytona for day 6 of our Virtual Race to .conf20, #VR2C! Today we meet Joshua Parrish who is a Principal Field Applications Engineer for Arrow Electronics. Joshua shares around one of the coolest projects ever, the SAM...
10.14.2020
Splunk at Dell with Jaynene Hapanowicz & Will Hudson - #VR2C
Welcome to day five of our Virtual Race to .conf20 #VR2C! Our guests today are Jaynene Hapanowicz – CTO of Dell Digital, & Will Hudson – VP, IT for Dell Digital. We hear a bit around how Dell quickly implemented...
10.13.2020
The Splunk Security Landscape with Albert Biketi - #VR2C
Join us on our fourth day of our virtual race to .conf20! #VR2C as we chat with Albert Biketi, VP of Security Business at Splunk. Albert shows us how businesses are going through a digital transformation and how we must...
10.12.2020
Racing Data Insights with McLaren and Splunk - #VR2C
Today on our Virtual Race to .conf20 #VR2C, we are at Silverstone! Dan McEwen Head of Partnerships at McLaren Racing and James Hodge, Chief Technical Advisor at Splunk join us and share insights around the McLaren and Splunk partnership. We...
10.11.2020
Splunk AIOps with Kia Behnia - #VR2C
While we race at Laguna Seca on the #VR2C today, we chat with Kia Behnia, VP of IT Operations at Splunk. We learn how Splunk’s AIOps capabilities enable teams to provide 360 degree insights into your data. Kia shares how...
10.10.2020
Splunk and IOT with Red River's Amin Murad - #VR2C
Hear about the partners that are powering Splunk’s Virtual Race to .conf20. #VR2C Today we meet Amin Murad – Customer Solutions Architect at Red River Technologies. Amid shares how Red River helps customers use Splunk to answer their data analytics...
09.29.2020
The technologies that power AI with Nvidia's Chris Milroy
We've talked a lot about the application and use cases around Artificial Intelligence but we have not really gone into the infrastructure that is powering this awesome technology. In the season 7 finally of the Big Data Beard Podcast, Brett...
09.22.2020
Talking To Servers and building Splunk Add-ons with Dean Jackson
Join Cory Minton as he chats with Kyle Prins & Dean Jackson around their newest development, The Redfish Add-on for Splunk! We dive into the history of Redfish, why open standards are important, and how to get started with redfish....
09.15.2020
The Three Pillars of AI in Federal with GAI
Today Cory and Kyle sit down with GAI President, Jay Lambke, and CTO Prem Jadwhani. GAI, or Government Acquisitions, is a Federal ISO-certified VAR focused on empowering Federal missions with cutting-edge research and development. Jay and Prem also discuss how...
09.08.2020
The Virtual Race to .Conf20 Announcement!
One year ago, the Big Data Beard Team set out on the most epic roadtrip on the #IOTRV. We learned a lot about Splunk, IOT data, and living in an RV. However, this year threw us a curveball. So we...
09.01.2020
Data Literacy and the Rise of the Citizen Data Scientist with Quanthub
In this week’s podcast, Cory Minton sits down with returning guest Matt Cowell, CEO of Quanthub, to hear about some of the innovation and changes that have been taking place at Quanthub over the past year. Quanthub, whose mission is...
08.25.2020
Smart Home Success with Dean Jackson
We're back for season 7! We hope you've all been safe and well. As for us, we've been social distancing, masking up, and balming our beards here. Oh! And we've been upgrading our smart homes! Since we haven't shared much,...
05.12.2020
Data Makes Us Faster: Apex Pro Digital Driving Coach
You’ve heard Cory Minton (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton) talk about his love of cars a lot on the Big Data Beard podcast, and in this episode he is joined by two fellow automotive enthusiasts, Andrew Raines (https://instagram.com/andrew_rains_44?igshid=1xmsrtbkl2qv1) and Austin Gurley, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-gurley-1b966642/) who founded...
04.28.2020
Streaming Storage Reimagined
The Big Data Beard Podcast is back! To kick off our first episode of season 6, Cory Minton (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton) sits down with Amy Tenanes (https://twitter.com/AmyTenanes), Product Marketing Manager at Dell Technologies and Flavio Junquiera (https://twitter.com/fpjunqueira), Senior Distinguished Engineer at Dell...
12.04.2019
The past, present, and future of the Big Data Beard
2019 has been a wild ride for the Big Data Beard podcast with a ton of great shows, all culminating in Season 5 and the epic Road Trip to Splunk .conf. During this episode, the team shares stories from the...
11.13.2019
Moving Data from Legacy to Next-Gen Platforms with Syncsort
This week's podcast, we meet with Dave Normandeau, VP Global Technology Alliances and Business Development from Syncsort (https://www.syncsort.com/en/home). And Dave Hodgson, Chief Product Officer, from Syncsort. We review their 51 year old business and how they built the company around...
11.05.2019
Signalfx and Other Splunk Aquisitions with Rick Fitz
We're at Splunk's .conf 19 (https://conf.splunk.com) with SVP & GM Rick Fitz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-fitz-7b32461/). Rick climbs in the #IoTRV with Cory Minton (https://www.twitter.com/cory_minton) as they discuss Rick's history around campervans and IT software tools. We also hear about Splunk's recent acquisitions...
10.29.2019
Big Announcements Coming From .conf: A talk with Chief Product Officer Sendur Sellakumar
Recorded at Splunk (http://www.splunk.com/)’s .conf 2019, Cory (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) sits down with Sendur Sellakumar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sendursellakumar), Chief Product Officer at Splunk to dive into all the great product announcements unveiled at the 10th annual .conf (https://conf.splunk.com/). Every year, Splunk releases multitudes of...
10.22.2019
.conf Excitement with the Chief Splunker
Splunk .conf (https://conf.splunk.com/) is one of our favorite weeks of the year. After a 14 day #RoadTrip2conf we couldn't think of a better way to start our .conf19 then to sit down with Splunk (http://www.splunk.com)CEO Doug Merritt (https://www.splunk.com/blog/author/dmerritt.html). Cory...
10.18.2019
Splunk & DevOps with Andi Mann
Passing through Colorado on our Road Trip 2 .conf19 (https://bigdatabeard.com/road-trip-to-conf-2019/), we caught up with Andi Mann (https://twitter.com/andimann?lang=en), Chief Technology Advocate for Splunk (https://www.splunk.com/)in the final podcast before Splunk .conf19. (https://conf.splunk.com/) Tune in to hear Andi share innovative stories from...
10.17.2019
Security & IOT: How Arrow is powering innovation
On day 11 of the Road Trip 2 .conf (https://bigdatabeard.com/road-trip-to-conf-2019/), Cory (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton)and Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett) sit down with Davitt Potter (https://twitter.com/davittjpotter?lang=en), Global Security Practice Lead and Frank Lyles (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-c-lyles-858538101), Splunk Sales Engineer to hear how Arrow (https://www.arrow.com/ecs/)is helping customers...
10.16.2019
A Peek Inside Splunxter with Gregg and Noah Woodcock
Join us in Dallas, Texas when we catch up with Gregg Woodcock & Noah Woodcock to learn why and how they built Splunxter, their Splunk consulting practice during The Big Data Beard Road Trip to Splunk's .conf 2019! We also...
10.15.2019
Dell.com: Site Reliability Engineering with Splunk
Dell.com (http://www.dell.com) is one of the most frequently visited eCommerce sites and is a major contributor to Dell Technologies revenue. Where even minutes of downtime could cause millions in lost revenue, it's up to the Dell Technologies Site Reliability Engineering...
10.14.2019
A Glimpse into Dell's Digital Transformation Journey with Jen Felch
On the 8th day of our Road Trip 2 .conf (https://bigdatabeard.com/road-trip-to-conf-2019/), we find ourselves at the Dell Technologies headquarters in Round Rock, TX. Cory (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton)and Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett)sit down with Dell's (http://www.dell.com)new Chief Digital Officer, Jen Felch (https://twitter.com/jenfelch?lang=en)...
10.11.2019
An Inside Look at The Splunk Trust
Join Cory and Kyle in Nashville, TN as we go under the Fez, into the mind of the Splunk Trust. We chat with Splunk Trust members Duane "DuckFez" Waddle and George Starcher, discussing the history of Splunk Trust, how Duane...
10.10.2019
How Red River Technology is Solving Data Analytics Challenges
It's Day 4 of our #RoadTrip2conf! In our journey so far, we have traveled across 9 states and have had some excellent conversations. For the podcast today, Kevin Steeprow and Ramon Taylor join Cory and Kyle for round 2. Kevin...
10.09.2019
Splunk Powering Public Sector with Splunk's Juliana Vida
We are just outside Washington DC on day 2 of the #RoadTrip2Conf. Join us as Brett and Cory sit down with Navy veteran and Splunk's Public Sector Chief Technical Advisor, Juliana Vida. Juliana shares insights from her career as a...
10.08.2019
Red River Technologies: Powering the Journey to AI
It's day 2 of our #RoadTrip2conf and today we are in Washington D.C meeting with Red River Technology (https://www.redriver.com/). In today's podcast Cory (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)and Kyle (https://twitter.com/KylePrins?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)sit down with Kevin Steeprow (https://www.redriver.com/industry-news/podcast-4-for-4-with-kevin-steeprow), VP of Design Engineering and Ramon Thomas...
10.08.2019
Splunk Architecture with Splunk's Jeff Champagne
Its finally here! The Big Data Beard team has started its epic Road Trip 2 .conf (https://bigdatabeard.com/road-trip-to-conf-2019/) today. I can think of no better way to kick off our Road Trip series of podcasts than with Splunk's very own Jeff...
10.01.2019
Season Five - The Road Trip and .conf19
Season four of the Big Data Beard podcast was 36 weeks of episodes following the trends, technology, and talented people making AI, IoT, and Big Data a big deal. In season five, you're in for something different. This is going to...
09.24.2019
Analyze, Act THEN Store: How SWIM.AI is changing data processing
Data processing today is based on a “Store then Analyze” architecture born in the big-data era. Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) and Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett)sit down with SWIM.AI (http://www.swim.ai) CTO Simon Crosby (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sicrosby) to hear about their recently launched DataFabric software is changing how...
09.17.2019
From the Lab that Brought you Spark comes Alluxio, the Data Orchestration Platform of the Future
Decoupling compute from storage has been a growing trend in the enterprise as organizations turn towards a data driven business. Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) and Erin (https://twitter.com/banksek?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) sit down with Haoyuan (HY) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/haoyuanli1), Founder and CTO of Alluxio (https://www.alluxio.io/) to talk about the...
09.17.2019
From the Lab that Brought you Spark comes Alluxio, the Data Orchestration Platform of the Future
Decoupling compute from storage has been a growing trend in the enterprise as organizations turn towards a data driven business. Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) and Erin (https://twitter.com/banksek?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) sit down with Haoyuan (HY) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/haoyuanli1), Founder and CTO of Alluxio (https://www.alluxio.io/) to talk about the...
09.10.2019
Decision Science at Disney with McKay Curtis
There may be an art to business, but there is science in data science. In this episode of the Big Data Beard podcast we talk with McKay Curtis (https://www.linkedin.com/in/s-mckay-curtis-1400322a/), Senior Principal, Decision Science at The Walt Disney Company, about tackling...
09.03.2019
Building A Data Integration Practice Inside Disney with Ken Sterling
Disney (https://www.thewaltdisneycompany.com/) is so much more than Mickey Mouse and the amount of data being created across this massive enterprise represents untold value. Tapping that value in dark data in consistent way is exactly what our guest, Ken Sterling, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-sterling-428860)...
08.27.2019
How National Geographic Used Analytics to Become the Biggest Brand on Instagram
Move over Justin Bieber, National Geographic is coming through! Thats right, when it comes to Instagram, National Geographic is a pretty big deal. Their total followers exceed some notable celebrities such as Drake, Rihanna, Khloe Kardashian and that’s right, Justin...
08.20.2019
The Big Data Beard Road to Splunk .conf 2019
On this episode, we unveil the Big Data Beard Road Trip to Splunk .conf 2019, sponsored by Dell Technologies and Red River. Three beards, two weeks, seven thousand miles in an RV, what could possibly be wrong with that?!? Join...
08.13.2019
The Future of Big Data with O'Reilly's Chief Data Scientist
Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) and Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett) get to sit down with Mr. @BigData, Ben Lorica (https://twitter.com/bigdata?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor), Chief Data Scientist at O’Reilly Media to get a glimpse into the future of AI, ML and Data Science. Ben, who also happens to be the Program...
08.06.2019
Data Science Driving Next Generation Customer Service at Dell
Recorded at Rev2 (https://rev.dominodatalab.com), Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett) and Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) get to sit down with Randi Ludwig (https://twitter.com/randirludwig), a Data Scientist at Dell Technologies to hear about how Dell is incorporating Data Science into its operations. Randi, who works within Dell’s Support and...
07.30.2019
Insights into the Tools and Technologies Driving our Favorite Shows at Netflix
From a DVD company to a streaming company to a producer of some our favorite shows, Netflix (http://www.netflix.com) has been at the forefront of media and entertainment innovation since the late 90’s. Today, Netflix touts over 148 million subscribers, accounts...

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Big Data Beard episodes:

Ensuring resilience for industrial IOT with Arcus Data and Splunk

Bitcoin Mining Operations Resilience

Racing to Resilience with McLaren and Splunk

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

Connecting Splunk to Generative AI

We Are Back!!!

The Splunk Trust & Splunk Community with Ryan Plas - #VR2C

Splunk at Intel with Jac Noel & Merritte Stidston - #VR2C

Splunk Observability & OpenTelemetry with Karthik Rau - #VR2C

Ethical Hacking and Splunk Security with Red River's Brian Clarke - #VR2C

The Arrow Autonomous Race Car with Joshua Parrish - #VR2C

Splunk at Dell with Jaynene Hapanowicz & Will Hudson - #VR2C

The Splunk Security Landscape with Albert Biketi - #VR2C

Racing Data Insights with McLaren and Splunk - #VR2C

Splunk AIOps with Kia Behnia - #VR2C

Splunk and IOT with Red River's Amin Murad - #VR2C

The technologies that power AI with Nvidia's Chris Milroy

Talking To Servers and building Splunk Add-ons with Dean Jackson

The Three Pillars of AI in Federal with GAI

The Virtual Race to .Conf20 Announcement!

Data Literacy and the Rise of the Citizen Data Scientist with Quanthub

Smart Home Success with Dean Jackson

Data Makes Us Faster: Apex Pro Digital Driving Coach

Streaming Storage Reimagined

The past, present, and future of the Big Data Beard

Moving Data from Legacy to Next-Gen Platforms with Syncsort

Signalfx and Other Splunk Aquisitions with Rick Fitz

Big Announcements Coming From .conf: A talk with Chief Product Officer Sendur Sellakumar

.conf Excitement with the Chief Splunker

Splunk & DevOps with Andi Mann

Security & IOT: How Arrow is powering innovation

A Peek Inside Splunxter with Gregg and Noah Woodcock

Dell.com: Site Reliability Engineering with Splunk

A Glimpse into Dell's Digital Transformation Journey with Jen Felch

An Inside Look at The Splunk Trust

How Red River Technology is Solving Data Analytics Challenges

Splunk Powering Public Sector with Splunk's Juliana Vida

Red River Technologies: Powering the Journey to AI

Splunk Architecture with Splunk's Jeff Champagne

Season Five - The Road Trip and .conf19

Analyze, Act THEN Store: How SWIM.AI is changing data processing

From the Lab that Brought you Spark comes Alluxio, the Data Orchestration Platform of the Future

From the Lab that Brought you Spark comes Alluxio, the Data Orchestration Platform of the Future

Decision Science at Disney with McKay Curtis

Building A Data Integration Practice Inside Disney with Ken Sterling

How National Geographic Used Analytics to Become the Biggest Brand on Instagram

The Big Data Beard Road to Splunk .conf 2019

The Future of Big Data with O'Reilly's Chief Data Scientist

Data Science Driving Next Generation Customer Service at Dell

Insights into the Tools and Technologies Driving our Favorite Shows at Netflix