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 their work from home policy this year during the pandemic. Jaynene and Will also share a bit around Spunk and Observability are impacting them as they transition from a reactive to proactive IT environment.
 
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Splunk at Dell with Jaynene Hapanowicz & Will Hudson - #VR2C

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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. 



Ensuring resilience for industrial IOT with Arcus Data and Splunk

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. 

Bitcoin Mining Operations Resilience

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. 

Racing to Resilience with McLaren and Splunk

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.  

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

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.  

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

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