Somerford Blog Data You Thought You Knew – The Hidden Risks Powering Your AI Author: The Somerford Team Release Date: 29/10/2025 AI isn’t just the next wave of enterprise tech, it’s a tsunami of change and disruption. In a matter of months, tools like Microsoft Copilot are rifling through documents to serve up insights, while […]
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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,
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Somerford Blog Ensuring Your DSPM Tool Is As Effective As Possible Author: Ben Norcutt Release Date: 08/10/2025 What is DSPM? You may have heard the term or even its predecessor SSPM so lets define what they actually are first. SSPM – SaaS Security Posture Management, an acronym within an acronym but basically it’s looking at
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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
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Somerford Blog How to Build a Data Pipeline with Confluent Author: Sam Ward Release Date: 03/09/2026 Defining a Data Pipeline To first get started with building data infrastructure, we first have to be familiar with the basic elements and concepts of the data pipeline. A data pipeline at its core is linking each stage of
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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
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Somerford Blog What is Varonis’ Database Activity Monitoring? Author: Beth Laws Release Date: 09/09/2025 Once again, Varonis has expanded its security capabilities as it now introduces next-generation Database Activity Monitoring (DAM). This comes after Varonis acquired Cyral earlier this year. The Cyral cloud-native DAM solution fits rather perfectly with Varonis security offerings, allowing Varonis customers
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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
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Somerford Blog Why Cisco XDR is Your Cybersecurity Game Changer Author: Andy Molloy Release Date: 11/08/2025 Navigating the Complex Cybersecurity Landscape Every organisation is at risk of an escalating barrage of sophisticated cyber threats, from AI-powered phishing to ransomware, expanding attack surfaces across cloud, internet of things (IoT) and hybrid work environments. This can lead
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Somerford Blog Optimising and Scaling your Confluent Cluster Author: Oscar Moores Release Date: 17/03/2026 Confluent is not just software – Founded by the minds behind Apache Kafka, it is an array of many different interlinked physical and logical components: brokers, topics, partitions, ksqldb servers, Kafka streams applications, producers and consumers (just to name a few)
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