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Somerford Blog 5 Issues Splunk Observability Cloud Solves Author: Owais Ghaffar Release Date: 15/10/2025 Organisations today run on complex digital infrastructure; distributed services, hybrid clouds, container orchestration, third-party APIs, and CI/CD pipelines that ship code faster than ever. With this complexity comes fragility: slowdowns, outages, and blind spots that can quickly turn into customer complaints, […]

Somerford Blog What’s the Use (Cases) for Splunk? Author: Nik Wadge Release Date: 03/10/2025 When the marketing department asked me to write a blog, I was like “Sure, what on? I have a lot of knowledge, some of it relevant and interesting, some not so”, “How about the top ten Use Cases based on your

Somerford Blog Splunk .conf25 Updates — Unifying Enterprise Resilience in the AI Era Author: Rosie Whitfield Release Date: 17/09/2025 It has been over a year since Cisco’s strategic acquisition of Splunk, a move that was immediately recognised for its financial acumen. However, at Somerford Associates, our focus has always been on the deeper technical and

Somerford Blog What’s New in Splunk Enterprise Version 10? Author: Nik Wadge Release Date: 08/09/2025 Splunk released version 10.0.0 on 28th July to surprisingly little fanfare; therefore, it arrived slightly under our radar. However, this is definitely not a version to be ignored, and today we’re going to take a high-level look at what’s new

Somerford Blog Why Choose Splunk Observability Cloud? Author: Owais Ghaffar Release Date: 28/08/2025 Understanding Observability: More Than Just Monitoring Modern IT environments are sprawling, dynamic, and increasingly complex. From containerised microservices to hybrid cloud infrastructure, the sheer scale and fluidity of today’s systems present a unique challenge: ensuring performance, availability, and reliability without getting buried