Somerford Blog Optimising and Scaling your Confluent Cluster Author: Oscar Moores Release Date: 04/08/2025 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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Somerford Blog Netskope Home Workers | Private Access Author: Dan Reeder Release Date: 07/09/21 While remote working is the norm for many businesses, over the last 18 months others have had to rethink the ways in which they work and adapt to running their workforce remotely. A huge part of this is not only access to
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Somerford Blog Why Should Businesses Utilise Real-Time Data Streams? Author: Jamie Turbill Release Date: 25/07/2024 Increasingly and in the last decade, data has become one of the most important assets in business. As services become ever more digital, we expect things to be available on-demand in an instant. Organisations are reliant on data-driven systems to
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Somerford Blog A Brief Introduction to Netskope’s Borderless SD-WAN Solution Release Date: 28/11/2022 Linkedin Twitter Youtube This blog post is a very high level view of SD-WAN in relation to Netskope’s offered solution and has been written to provide anyone, at any level, an understanding of the technology’s principles. What is SD-WAN? Imagine in the
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Somerford Blog 5 Tips to Help you Optimise your Splunk Searches Author: Dan Gray Release Date: 01/02/2024 Splunk is a great tool for aggregating and interrogating the data you hold but to really get the best value out of your data you should be utilising search best practices. I’ll outline here some of the best
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Somerford Blog What’s New for Splunk Enterprise Security v8? Author: Ben Marrable Release Date: 11/12/2024 Splunk introduced many changes when releasing Enterprise Security 8.0, see the links at the bottom for more. One of the most significant is the language used within the technology. The idea was to standardise the terminology across the CyberSecurity Industry
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Somerford Blog KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training: A Complete Life Cycle Overview Author: Jack Travis Release Date: 14/06/2023 Cybersecurity is a rapidly growing issue in today’s world. As cyber-attacks and data breaches become increasingly frequent each day, it is necessary for individuals and organisations to protect themselves from these threats. Although many organisations invest in security
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Somerford Blog What is Lacework FortiCNAPP? Author: Oliver Knapp Release Date: 27/10/2023 In essence, Lacework FortiCNAPP is a complete cloud security tool which allows for an incredibly high level of visibility and, as such, control and security across all of your cloud environments. This is achieved through multiple methods which all come together in order
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Somerford Blog What is Data Streaming? Author: Carl Parker Release Date: 09/06/2023 Increasingly, it is clear that the next generation of software development won’t be about creating a one-time application for dedicated computers but rather building stream-processing applications for data-centre environments. The adoption of streaming systems like those offered by our technology partner Confluent, is
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Somerford Blog Delinea & Splunk: A Cybersecurity Power Duo Author: Josh Gonasella-Brown Release Date: 31/07/2025 Cybersecurity is no easy task. Between external threats, insider risks, and ever-evolving compliance regulations, IT teams must constantly stay ahead of the game. That’s where Delinea and Splunk come in. Individually, they offer powerful security solutions. Together, they create a
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