Somerford Blog How to Build a Data Pipeline with Confluent Author: Sam Ward Release Date: 29/09/2025 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 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 How Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) Work Author: Carl Parker Release Date: 19/01/2024 What are Advanced Persistent Threats? When belligerent parties target a business’ data and infrastructure in threatening attacks, the most commonly considered strategy is a fast, quickly spreading virus that searches for valuable information, then retreats as quickly as it entered. Advanced
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Somerford Blog How Does Kora Enhance Kafka & Confluent Cloud? Author: Sam Ward Release Date: 03/09/2024 Confluent Cloud: A Look Back In order to understand what Kora is, we first need to take a step back, and contextualise why Confluent needed a Cloud-Native Apache Kafka Engine in the first place. Confluent’s early Kafka offering was
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Somerford Blog 5 Steps for Strengthening Cyber Resilience Authors: Jake Hammacott & Oliver Knapp Release Date: 26/04/2024 In the modern day, threats to businesses originate almost entirely in the digital world, be that with the aim of stealing identities, or the more basic desire of financial gain. As such, to businesses in this day and
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Somerford Blog The Difference Between Splunk ES & Splunk Security Essentials Author: Ben Marrable Release Date: 22/06/2021 A common question from those new to Splunk Security is “What is the difference between Splunk Enterprise Security(ES) and Splunk Security Essentials (SSE)”, I think the answer lies primarily in outlining what Security Essentials is and what it
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Somerford Blog Ransomware Prevention with Okta Author: Grace Dolby Release Date: 17/10/2022 Linkedin Twitter Youtube Ransomware, a type of malicious software that seeks to block access to your own files and data by holding them to ransom unless a fee is paid. ‘Ransomware is now responsible for 10% of breaches, and have doubled in number
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Somerford Blog How Does Netskope’s SD WAN Transformation Revolutionise Your Enterprise Connectivity? Author: Jake Hammacott Release Date: 02/04/2025 The Disadvantages Associated with Remote Working Organisations that lack robust and comprehensive enterprise connectivity are confronted with a multitude of obstacles that can severely impede their operations and growth. Productivity is often impacted as employees struggle with
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Somerford Blog How to Format JSON Data Ready for Splunk Author: Laurence Everitt Release Date: 28/10/2024 Splunk is fantastic at receiving structured data in any format and then making sense of it for output to management and technicians alike, so most Splunk ingesting blogs are in the format, “How do I configure Splunk to work
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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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