Somerford Blog What is Splunk POD? Author: Jake Hammacott Release Date: 22/01/2026 Splunk POD (Platform on Demand) integrates Splunk Enterprise software and Cisco UCS hardware into a standardised, semi-automated deployment. This pre-packaged solution of software and hardware streamlines the deployment process, leading to a faster time to value with Splunk and less complexity in managing […]
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Somerford Blog Grafana Cloud: Observability and Visualisation Made Easy (4 Pillars of Observability Part #1) Author: Oscar Moores Release Date: 20/01/2026 What is Grafana? When I first discovered Grafana Cloud I looked at what was in front of me and thought to myself: “That’s a pretty cool way of visualising data”. I hooked up an
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Video Series — Splunk Basics (Splunk for Security) The Intermediate Forwarder (IF) View Other Series Sign Up To Mailing List Video Summary Welcome back to our Splunk Basics mini-series on Splunk’s security solutions, where we showcase some of the fundamental aspects that you are likely to encounter. In this episode, our technical consultant, Oliver Knapp,
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Video Series — Splunk Basics (Splunk for Security) The Universal Forwarder (UF) and Heavy Forwarder (HF) View Other Series Sign Up To Mailing List Video Summary During your first experiments with Splunk, you may come across the term ‘data forwarding’ and wonder what exactly that means. In a typical Splunk environment, there is often data
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Video Series Splunk Basics (Splunk for Security) View Other Series Sign Up To Mailing List Series Summary Splunk is a renowned, award-winning data security leader that supports the world’s largest companies in strengthening their digital resilience through SOC modernisation. Offering unified threat detection, investigation and response, Splunk’s security tools (such as Enterprise Security and SOAR)
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Somerford Blog What is Splunk APM? Author: Daniel Gray Release Date: 10/12/2025 Introducing Application Performance Monitoring As modern systems scale across containers, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud environments, traditional monitoring often falls short. Sampling traces or siloing data means you lose the full picture of what’s happening inside your applications, this leads to blind spots in your
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Somerford Blog Securing Data and Governing AI at Scale Author: Max Gilfedder Release Date: 20/11/2025 As organisations look to unlock the potential of AI while meeting increasing compliance and data protection obligations, many are faced with the challenge of managing data sprawl and identifying sensitive information, especially in unstructured formats across cloud environments. Securiti offers
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Somerford Blog Top 5 Use Cases for Splunk SOAR (Security Orchestration Automation and Response) Author: Tom Earl Release Date: 04/11/2025 In today’s threat-laden digital landscape, speed, accuracy and efficiency are everything. Security teams and their analysts are becoming overcome with the sheer volume of alerts, complex toolsets, and an expanding threat surface that they are
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