implementing powerful it search on the cloud

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Partners in Cloud Computing

Management: Splunk


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Your Panel Today

RightScale• Josh Fraser – VP, Business Development• Ed Goldberg - Evangelist• On Q&A: Matthew Small – Sr. Account Manager• On Q&A: David Welch – Sales Engineer

Splunk• Michael Wilde – Director of Powered Associate

Program• On Q&A: Simon Shelston – Solutions Architect


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Welcome Brief Demo: Follow the Break-in RightScale & Splunk Partnership Splunk IT Search Splunk Tour How to add Splunk to RightScale

Deployment Q&A – Getting StartedPlease use chat to ask questions anytime!

Agenda


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Demo: Follow the Break-in

US Cloud

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Statistics


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Cloud Deployment Life Cycle


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Customer Needs• Drivers to RightScale

– Fast On-ramp to Clouds

– Automate systems management

– Platform to manage complexity of cloud infrastructure


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RightScale & Splunk Partnership• RightScale ISV Program

– Fill the gaps– Traditional, static approaches aren’t agile enough– Reduces barriers to entry for deploying in the cloud through

pre-integrated ServerTemplates and RightScripts

• Customers were looking for better tools around logging, compliance, security, and business analytics

• Customers were asking for Splunk– Real-time IT search for a dynamic world– Complementary, cloud-friendly pricing model– Splunk Powered Associate Program


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Imagine

Splunk lets you search your entire IT infrastructure from one place in real time.

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“With Splunk we investigate incidents in

seconds not hours or days. We’ve already

reassigned five analysts”

Dave HazekampSecurity Architect

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One Splunk. Many Uses.


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Splunk Search

• Real time, ad-hoc Splunk Search delivers relevance in a variety of contexts

• Follow the connection between related data across different hosts

• Search for errors, keywords, events, hosts, sources, fields, transactions and statistics

• Distribute searches across multiple Splunk Servers in different clouds and geographies – and instances that are offline!

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Find information across silosof hard to understand IT data/


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Splunk Alerts

• Scheduled searches for real time alerts

• Trigger notifications and actions based on content of search results

• Notify via RSS, Email or SNMP to other security or management consoles

• Take actions by triggering scripts to automate routine IT activities

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Proactive monitoring with notifications and actions.


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Splunk Reports

• Combines interactive reporting with the speed, flexibility and scale of Splunk Search

• One click, ad-hoc reports across volumes of IT data lets anyone visualize results

• Pivot on any fields without complicated schemas or re-indexing of data

• Schedule and distribute reports via RSS or Email

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Summarize, visualize and analyze search results.


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Download and install in minutes. Easy to Get Started

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Immediate Business ImpactDownload and install in minutes. Deploy in hours. ROI in days.

Use Case Benefits Business Impact

Operations Problem troubleshooting

Speed MTTR up to 70%Cut escalations up to 90%

Higher service levelsLower operations costs

Security Security investigationFaster response timeIncreased productivity

Eliminate exposure & riskLower security costs

Compliance Control reportingComprehensive inputsEasy to setup & maintain

Broader complianceLower compliance costs

Business Analytics Transaction tracingEnd to end visibilityNo new instrumentation

More informed decisionsCost effective analytics

Service Providers Customer self serviceFaster response timeFewer escalations

Customer satisfactionLower support costs

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Demonstrations

• Splunk Tour

• Adding Splunk to RightScale Deployment


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Contact a RightScale representative for a live demo or request presentation slides at: [email protected] (866) 720 – 0208

Sign up for a free developer account at: RightScale.com/FreeTrial

Splunk is accessible in Partner Templates section of the RightScale Free Trial

Q&A - Getting Started

Thank you for listening!


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Best Practices in the Cloud: Managing the Deployment Life Cycle

implementing powerful it search on the cloud

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