Splunk Enterprise is a leading platform for analyzing machine-generated data to gain valuable business insights. Splunk Enterprise uses its powerful Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) to extract meaningful information from machine data. The insights that are generated from analyzing machine data are called operational intelligence, which has many use cases, including:
Dell Technologies and Splunk have partnered to provide jointly validated reference architectures that are optimized for maximum scalability and performance. Splunk software running on Dell converged infrastructure delivers the operational intelligence that is required to drive an organization’s digital transformation.
Dell Technologies provides the following primary benefits to customers’ Splunk Enterprise environments:
A reference architecture using a VxRail system with Dell Isilon for a virtualized Splunk Enterprise environment has been jointly tested and validated by Splunk and Dell Technologies. The architecture meets or exceeds the performance of Splunk Enterprise running on Splunk's documented reference hardware. VxRail offers the performance and capacity required to meet the infrastructure requirements of a small or medium-sized enterprise Splunk deployment.
For more information, see Splunk Reference Architecture on VxRail.