SplunkLive! Dallas 2016 

October 13, 2016 - Embassy Suites Frisco

Please join us at SplunkLive! Dallas - and learn how more than 10,000 enterprises, government agencies, universities and service providers in over 100 countries use Splunk software to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce cost. You'll hear from industry experts, customers and technologists on how they’re turning machine data into actionable insights.

No cost - SplunkLive! Dallas is free to all!

SplunkLive! Dallas Agenda

• 8:00am – Registration
• 9:00am – Welcome, Agenda, Overview
• 12:00pm – Lunch
• 1:15pm – Breakout Sessions 1-3
• Getting Started with Splunk Enterprise
  What is Splunk? At the end of this session you’ll have a high-level understanding of the pieces that make up the Splunk Platform, how it works, and how it fits in the landscape of Big Data. You’ll see practical examples that differentiate Splunk while demonstrating how to gain quick time to value.
• Splunk Enterprise for IT Troubleshooting 
  If you’re just getting started with Splunk, this session will help you understand how to use Splunk software to turn your silos of data into insights that are actionable. In this session, we’ll dive right into a Splunk environment and show you how to use the simple Splunk search interface to quickly find the needle-in-the-haystack or multiple needles in multiple haystacks. We’ll demonstrate how to perform rapid ad-hoc searches to conduct routine investigations across your entire IT infrastructure in one place, whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. We’ll show you how to then convert these searches into real time alerts and dashboards, so you can proactively monitor for problems before they impact your end user. We’ll demonstrate how you can use Splunk to connect the dots across heterogeneous systems in your environment for cross-tier, cross-silo visibility. You’ll have access to a demo environment. So, don’t forget to bring your laptop and follow along for a hands-on experience.
• Best Practices for Scoping Infections and Disrupting Breaches 
  Infection and exploits will occur. The new goal is to prevent those infections from becoming a data breach. To do this successfully, security analysts need the ability to continuously collect, analyze, correlate and investigate a diverse set of data. Our security expert will discuss the specific data sources and capabilities required to determine the scope of an infection before it turns into a breach. You will also see a live incident investigation that demonstrates this approach.
• 2:30pm – Breakout Sessions 4-6
• Improving Healthcare Operations Using Process Data Mining 
  It’s estimated that 80% of healthcare data is unstructured, which makes it challenging to do any sort of analytics to drive improvements in population health, patient care and operational efficiency. Machine learning techniques can be utilized to predict future events from similar past events, anticipate resource capacity issues and proactively identify bottlenecks and patient outcome risks. This session will provide an overview of how process data mining can be applied to healthcare and provide real-world examples of process data mining in action..
• Art of the Possible - Innovating with Splunk 
  Your imagination and creativity combined with Splunk equals endless possibilities. Whether you are new to Splunk or a Splunk Ninja, join us for an exciting technical session that will showcase how you can leverage Splunk for new and innovative use cases beyond IT and Security. We will share tips, tricks, and techniques that will enable you to further extend your Splunk installation to deliver new and unique insights across your organization
• Splunk…so Big and Flashy - Building Massive and Efficient Indexer Storage Environments for Splunk
  During this session, EMC will explore the value of the emergence of scale-out, all-flash storage appliances with inline deduplication and massively scaled-out clustered file system appliances when used for the Indexer storage. EMC will also discuss how storage-based services for data deduplication, data protection, compliant retention, and encryption can solve enterprise IT challenges while making Splunk performance absolutely scream! As a bonus for current EMC customers, we’re also introducing EMC Apps on SplunkBase for monitoring EMC storage appliances. These free apps provide powerful dashboards and reports to monitor the health and performance of EMC storage environment via the Splunk Enterprise console.
• 3:30pm – Happy Hour Sponsored by Amazon Web Services, Eview,Recorded Future, Set Solutions, and Syncsort.