Splunk Cloud Platform gets new capabilities – Times of India

Splunk Inc, a data platform company, has announced enhancements to Splunk Cloud Platform and Splunk Enterprise. Splunk offers organizations solutions they need to manage and thrive throughout their cloud journeys, leaning into Splunk’s unified data platform to become resilient, secure and innovative in their increasingly complex multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
“Over the past eighteen months, the transformative power of data moved to the forefront of how organizations have been reinventing themselves and their customer experiences. In an unpredictable world, organizations with a strong data foundation thrived despite unforeseen changes,” said Shawn Bice, President of Products and Technology, Splunk. “As we enter this next era of opportunity, we understand the responsibility and partnership with our customers, and Splunk is committed to their success. Data is everywhere – public clouds, on-premises data centers, the edge, apps, third party tools – and Splunk will be right there with our customers to help them turn data into doing.”
Splunk has launched new capabilities for accessing cloud data, and working with data in motion, before it gets indexed within the Splunk platform. The new Data Manager, currently in preview, claims to provide a modernized user experience in Splunk Cloud Platform for simple and automated cloud native data onboarding starting with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft 365 and expanding to include Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure data sources. Splunk’s new Ingest Actions capability, also in preview, gives customers the ability to take action on data in motion to redact, filter, and route data to Splunk or to external AWS S3 storage. Additionally, Splunk claims to be working to ensure that the Splunk platform provides cost-effective indexing and storage options for all customer data. It has added two new capabilities to its storage and pricing tiers within the Splunk platform. The new Flex Index, available in preview for Splunk Cloud customers on workload pricing, is said to allow cost-effective ingest, search, and storage for lower-value data that may have long retention periods and is used primarily for historic forensic investigation and compliance. Splunk is also expanding cloud storage with SmartStore, which is now available on Microsoft Azure as a preview capability in addition to Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, allowing customers to grow to even larger scales while controlling storage costs.