Big Data Workshop: Splunk and Dell EMC...Better Together

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Big Data Workshop
Splunk & EMC…..Better
Together
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All rights reserved.

Agenda
• 10:00-10:45 Data Analytics Overview
• 10:45-11:00 Splunk Enterprise 6.5 Demo
• 11:00-11:30 Choosing the Right Storage
Solution for Splunk
• 11:30-11:45 Customer Use Case
• 11:45-12:00 Q&A, General Discussion
• 12:00-12:30 Lunch
• 12:30-02:30 Splunk Fundamentals Bootcamp
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Big Data and Analytics
Overview

About Me – Scott DeMoss (sdemoss@gtri.com)
• I am not a data scientist and have
never worked as an analyst…
• … but I’ve done some serious
analysis
• Past 4 years at GTRI
• I’d rather be fishing
• In 2011 I rode my bicycle from
Cairo to Cape Town
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Data, Analytics – the Next Big Thing
• Not so fast…
• Revisionist History
• Remember “the cloud”?
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Data and Analytics History Lesson(s)
• The Value of Data is Certainly Not New
o Insurance companies – Actuary tables
o Financial markets – interest rates, performance metrics
o Hospitality – scheduling, occupancy, promotions
o Professional Sports – Sabermetrics (“Moneyball”)
• Making Money from Data – that’s an old trick too
o Nielsen Corporation – TV
o Companies such as Webtrends, Informatica founded in 1993
o Google circa 1999
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So Why All the Fuss?
• Moore’s Law
• The Internet (shout out to Al Gore)
• A Generation of Native Tech Users
• PC’s -> Notebooks -> Tablets -> Smartphones…
o People want content
o People can get content – anytime, anywhere
• Data and Analytics for the Masses: cost, access,
awareness
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So Where Does that Leave Us?
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We’ve got Infographics!

The Landscape
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So How Do You Do It?
• Do everyone a favor, and do some planning…
• Start with a single use case
• Chose value, cost impact, narrow focus
• Start with the end in mind:
 What insights would be valuable?
 What other insights might exist?
• Consider the audience consumption mechanism(s)
• Remember DIA: data -> insight -> action
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So How Do You Do It the Easy Way?
• Use Splunk. Seriously.
o Ease of deployment
o Ease of “getting data in”
o Ease of use for analytics scenarios, many of which are
already “done” for you
o Schema on the Fly for Ridiculously Agile Reporting
o Fast Time to Value
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Splunk…so Big and Flashy
Building Massive and Efficient Indexer Storage Environments for Splunk
David Steinke – Isilon Senior Systems Engineer

Splunk Architecture
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Splunk Storage Requirements
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Splunk Indexer Buckets
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DAS Presents Challenges
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Why EMC for Splunk
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EMC XTREMIO & Splunk
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Data Services For
Hot & Warm Data
Self-Encrypting
Flash Drives
Index File
Compression
Dedupe Clustered
Index Copies
In-Memory Data
Copy Services
ALL-FLASH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HOT & WARM DATA
Scale-Out Flash For
I/O-Bound Data
>1M IOPS & <1ms Latencies
High-Speed Search
Accelerate SuperSparse
& Rare Searches
Indexers
Search Heads

EMC Isilon & Splunk
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Consolidate, Protect
& Secure Cold Data
SmartLock Protects
Cold & Frozen Data
SmartDedupe For
Clustered Indexes
Snapshots IQ
For Backups
LOW-COST & SECURE SCALE-OUT FOR COLD DATA
High-Speed Ingest
& Long-Term Retention With
Native HDFS Integration
Indexers
Search Heads
Scale-Out Capacity
Up To 50PB Of Highly
Available Capacity
Self-Encrypting
Drives

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EMC Reference Architectures
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EMC’s Value
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Splunk Benchmarks and
Metrics

Splunk IT Operations Benchmarks

Splunk Application Delivery Benchmarks

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What does GTRI Do?
GTRI is a strategic IT solutions provider
that helps organizations and pubic sector
agencies navigate between business and
agency needs and technology in order to:
o Drive Revenue
o Reduce Risk
o Reduce Costs

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GTRI Capabilities

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GTRI Splunk Practice Overview
Highlights:
• Splunk’s 1st Elite Partner and one of only two Splunk Certified
Training Centers in the U.S.
• GTRI provides end-to-end support for Splunk from pre-sales
engineering and design services, to post-sales professional
services, implementation, training and optimization
• Six (6) Splunk Partner Awards in past four (4) years
• Splunk’s most credentialed partner in N. America:
o GTRI holds over 100 Splunk Certifications:
 7 Certified Architects
 16 Certified Solutions Engineers (SE-I, SE-II & SE-III)
 Multiple Splunk Administrators, Power Users, etc.
 Certified Training Center

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GTRI Splunk Certifications Overview
Sales Engineering Certs:
 7Certified Architects
 16 Sales Engineering Certifications + 3 more in process
 Additional SE Certs Include:

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GTRI Virtual Splunk Bootcamps

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Thank you!
Contact via Email:
sdemoss@gtri.com

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