Empowering a Leading University with Splunk Cloud Transformation
- Migrate existing configuration to Splunk Cloud
- Utilise a licence model that would not restrict the data volume that could be ingested
- Reduce infrastructure and resource overheads
Case Study Introduction
Customer Summary
This university has over 25,000 students from over 140 countries and offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs across its five faculties. The university is known for its research excellence, particularly in areas such as cosmology, neuroscience, and security.
Requirements
An esteemed University needed to transition from an On-Premise Splunk configuration to Splunk Cloud. This initiative aimed to lower support and maintenance costs associated with local infrastructure.
The client and Somerford Associates mutually decided that the new Cloud solution would adopt a 'Day Zero' approach, involving a clean slate setup without migrating data from the existing Splunk system.
The planning of the delivery adhered to a standard waterfall approach, with each stage subject to quality checkpoint assurance under the client's supervision.
Business Challenges
With increasing infrastructure costs and demands on internal resources, the University was looking to utilise cloud and a workload licence model that would facilitate more use cases and data ingest without impacting performance or costs.
Cloud First
Increasing infrastructure costs
Greater data ingest without losing performance
Solutions
