Splunk

January 23, 2015

SECURITY

More Than Just a Pretty Dashboard – Cisco ISE and Splunk Turn Event Data Analysis into Action

2 min read

Previous blogs in this series, both by Splunk and Cisco, detail how Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) can be used to drive enhanced event visibility in Splunk. Splunk is a machine data platform that allows you to search, report, alert, and visualize any data that it ingests. Cisco ISE brings an added dimension to analyzing […]

January 21, 2015

SECURITY

Using Cisco ISE Data to Drive Enhanced Event Visibility in Splunk

3 min read

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is commonly associated with use as a network access policy, BYOD and AAA platform. But to do its job in network policy, ISE collects a great breadth of telemetry about network users and devices. Whether a device is trying to access the network or is already connected, ISE knows specifics […]

December 18, 2014

DATA CENTER

ACI for Splunk Enterprise: Enabling comprehensive application health

3 min read

On January 13th, 2015, Cisco will celebrate the 1-year anniversary of its launch of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a ground breaking SDN architecture.  It will include a public webcast with...

June 23, 2014

DATA CENTER

High performance Splunk with VMware on top of EMC ScaleIO and Isilon

3 min read

I recently did a project involving several moving parts, including Splunk, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS servers, EMC XtremSF cards, ScaleIO and Isilon. The project goal was to verify the functionality and performance of EMC storage together with Splunk. The results of the project can be applied to a basic physical installation of Splunk, and I added VMware virtualization […]

June 19, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Summary: High performance Splunk with Vmware on top of EMC ScaleIO and Isilon

1 min read

I recently did a project involving several moving parts, including Splunk, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS servers, EMC XtremSF cards, ScaleIO and Isilon. The project goal was to verify the functionality and performance of EMC storage together with Splunk. The results of the project can be applied to a basic physical installation of Splunk, and I added VMware virtualization […]

May 15, 2014

DATA CENTER

ACI Walkabout at CiscoLive 2014, San Francisco

6 min read

In a few days at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, we will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of Cisco Live. This year we are expecting record attendance exceeding...

March 12, 2014

DATA CENTER

#EngineersUnplugged S5|Ep2: ACI and Traditional Networking

1 min read

This is an amazing episode of Engineers Unplugged, where two technologists from the community, Hal Rottenberg (@halr9000) and Colin Lynch (@ucsguru) discuss how ACI disrupts traditional...