Splunk & Somerford Present: Guided Observability Insights According to a recent Splunk report, the average cost of downtime totals $400bn per year, proving a huge cost to modern businesses. However, the most resilient digital leaders recover 28% faster. On their journey to digital resilience, these influential leaders seek guided insights to detect threats and issues […]
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Specsavers Splunk Journey: A Case Study in Observability Transformation Gain exclusive insights into how Specsavers leveraged Splunk to enhance operational visibility, drive performance improvements, and scale their observability capabilties across the business. This detailed case study explores the technical approach, business outcomes and future approach of their Splunk journey. If you want to learn how
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Confluent Presents: Top 3 Use Cases for Streaming Data Pipelines To make data more accessible and increase value, most IT organisations centralise as much information as possible. However, this process increases the likelihood that decisions are being made using stale data. This eBook from Confluent describes the challenges of legacy data pipelines and the advantages
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Splunk Presents: The Top 50 Cyber – Security Threats Resilient security teams deliver innovative cybersecurity solutions to protect every aspect of the business, unlock innovation and empower the overall organisation, with data at the center of everything they do. This seems to bare out in reporting. Data-centric security operations can reduce the risk of data
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Somerford & Confluent Present: The 2025 Data Streaming Report “Organisations are doing more than just investing in DSPs right now—they’re reimagining what’s possible across nearly every industry”. Now in its fourth installment, Confluent’s 2025 Data Streaming Report considers insights from 4,175 IT leaders to unveil how data streaming platforms (DSPs) play a pivotal role in
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Confluent Presents: Confluent vs Self-Supporting Open Source Kafka Whilst Kafka has become the standard for data streaming in 2025, managing and scaling Kafka in-house brings unnecessary burdens on operations, resources and budgets. Switching to Confluent Cloud completely eliminates private infrastructure costs with a fully-managed Kafka service that’s been completely re-architected to harness the full power
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Splunk Presents: Building Resilience in the Manufacturing Industry The Manufacturing industry makes up a significant portion of economic productivity, accounting for roughly 17% of Global GDP. However, the industry is at risk from insidious and sophisticated security threats. When Splunk surveyed leaders across the manufacturing industry for the 2023 State of Security report, 44% of
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Confluent Presents: Migrating from Kafka Services to Confluent Apache Kafka is a very popular open-source data streaming solution. It’s used globally by organisations looking to stream company data in real-time for greater visibility. However, it does come with drawbacks… As organisations expand their Kafka footprint, challenges relating to scalability, performance, and security emerge. That’s where
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Confluent Presents: The Ultimate Data Streaming Guide How should we navigate the complex world of data streaming in order to unlock it’s undoubted benefits? What are the key elements of data streaming and how do we seamlessly implement them? These are frequently asked questions that Confluent answer in their comprehensive data streaming guide that includes
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Confluent Presents: Kafka In The Cloud – Why It’s 10x Better With Confluent Migrating to the cloud brings all sorts of varied benefits for modern businesses, but taking your open source data streaming software with you can actually be a pretty challenging task. Apache Kafka is used by 70% of the Fortune 500, and has
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