Splunk new technology breakthrough get organized and understand a lot of machine data

Splunk recently announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company a new patent for organizing and understanding machine data through the application of the Machine data network. IT pros and businesses can use the machine data network created by Splunk to search, browse, navigate, analyze, and visualize to get rid of the inherent limitations of traditional methods and address a wide range of critical business issues.

"Eight years ago, we began to think about the challenges of generating large numbers of information systems and disparate machine data in various falsehoods environments of data centers and cloud platforms," said Erik Swan, co-founder and chief technology officer of Splunk. This information is extremely valuable to it and business users. However, in the past there is no unified method can be from the Web server, application server, database, network and other channels to generate large quantities of machine data to organize and extract useful conclusions. This is the starting point for Splunk to act. ”

Splunk's "Machine Data Network" patent includes converting machine data into a machine data network. Machine data networks are created by organizing machine data into events that describe discontinuous activities and dynamically associating events to describe larger, more complex activities. Like the internet is a variety of documents and Web site hyperlink information space, machine data network is information system events and activities of the interconnected information space. The machine data network can be used as a proxy server for its own information processing environment to search, browse, navigate and analyze. Splunk The U.S. Patent number for no.7,937,344.

With the development of mobile services, location-based data, networks, E-commerce, social media, IP-related devices and sensors, radio frequency identification (RFID) and other channels far beyond the capabilities of traditional IT systems, the size and business criticality of machine data has also changed rapidly. "The amount and speed of machine data generation is difficult to collect and organize for analysis, which often requires sophisticated parallel processing architectures," says David Menninger, vice president and research director of Ventana. Splunk has found a unique solution to the problem, which will create a huge commercial success. ”

"Our chief information chief a real-time console program across the company, Splunk can analyze and collect the large quantities of machine data generated by our infrastructure to quickly build the console so that we can follow the CIO's instructions," said Noah Gift, deputy Director of At&t Interactive. To get real-time information that needs to be submitted early. ”

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)