By Kyle Prins If you’re like me, you’ve probably downloaded Splunk, then panicked and stared at an empty dashboard for a while. To be completely honest, after I downloaded Splunk and installed it on my laptop, […]
Splunk Makes Me Do PDA…The SE1 Certification Process
by Cory “The Big Data Beard” Minton Hey HR – don’t freak out…PDA is Pitch Demo Architect in this case. Not sure what you were thinking…anyways. You have probably heard me speak proudly about the […]
Testing VxRail as a Scalable Starter Platform for Splunk Enterprise – Part 1 of…..
by Keith Quebodeaux EMC and VCE, also known as EMC Converged Platforms (EMC CP) (chest bump and crisp high five to the big data beard @Cory_Minton and @EMCBigData), have numerous platforms and products that have […]
Becoming a Hunk…Certified Engineer
by Tyler Hunstad I just recently attended the Splunk “BIG Data Bootcamp” in Chicago. This class was pretty amazing. We learned how Splunk uses Hunk to search Hadoop data that is sitting on a Hadoop […]
The Need for Structure in Unstructured Data – A Call for Lambda Architecture
By Kyle Prins There’s been a lot of buzz in the tech world lately about analytics. Plenty of people are encouraging you to take a look at your data and build a “Big Data” solution […]
Thoughts on Big Data and The Internet of Things
From time to time, some of EMC’s partners host conferences for customers to come learn the latest trends in enterprise IT from a host of tech companies. Back in February, a great EMC partner (and […]
Splunk Partner Technical Symposium – Americas
Splunk and EMC have become super friends over the last several months since formally becoming “Strategic Alliance Partners” where EMC can now resell Splunk software licenses. Behind every great sales and marketing partnership is some […]
Big Data Beard Biography – Cory Minton
Geek, engineering leader, technology evangelist and business strategist, Cory Minton, is focused on finding creative ways for organizations to drive the utmost value from their data, while transforming IT’s relevance to the organizations and customers […]
VXRail Gangster
There are few folks as excited about VCE’s VXRail product line than my boy, @aaronbuley. Some folks are worried about his driving habits, but I sure like his passion… And he was equally stoked […]
Dirty Hands: A Week in the VCE Lab
I sure do like talking with customers and getting on stage at conferences, but my ability to be good/credible in either situation is absolutely predicated on my ability to roll my sleeves up and […]