Splunk Expands Cloud Platform for Hybrid Cloud World

Splunk rolled out enhancements to its Splunk Cloud Platform and announced general availability of its Splunk Enterprise 9.0 software targeted at helping enterprise customers manage their data in cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. This includes features like data manager, onboarding, and federated search capabilities to support end-to-end visibility of operations, scale, storage, data, and cost savings. Splunk rolled out enhancements to its Splunk Cloud Platform and announced general availability of its Splunk Enterprise 9.0 software targeted at helping enterprise customers manage their data in cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. This includes features like data manager, onboarding, and federated search capabilities to support end-to-end visibility of operations, scale, storage, data, and cost savings. The updates, which were announced this week at Splunk’s .conf22 event, allow customers to get their data to the right places, in the right shape, and at the right time with controls to take action on the data through filtering, masking, and routing. “These are really important capabilities in being able to control which data actually flows into the swarm,” Splunk Chief Product Officer Garth Ford explained, adding that some of the features have been in preview since last year and have proven successful in demos. “Last year we talked about sort of like delivering on our promises just kind of wave one and that’s about making our products feel and and really work as a more integrated suite,” he said. “We’ve really been really kind of flushing out this platform for our observability platform, which now supports events, logs, traces and metrics, and is designed to help customers as they migrate to cloud and microservices architectures, to really get a handle on sort of how complex systems operate at scale.” The platform is compatible across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) support set for later this summer.