How Splunk Aims to Tame Flood of Internet of Things Data
Found on eWEEK on Thursday, 09 October 2014
Splunk, a young data platform that stands to become a hugely important factor in gauging the Internet of things, held its fifth annual users and partners conference here Oct. 6 to 9.
The San Francisco-based company ostensibly will become a kingpin player in indexing, monitoring and making usable the scads of data that the IoT will foist upon us in the coming years because it knows how to classify data, and do it fast.
The next buzzword: IoT. The idea of everything getting connected to the Internet is just scary, because the past has shown that security doesn't play an important role there. Today, a problem like shellshock only affects server admins; a similar big bug would affect users who, on average, don't have a clue about the technology they are using.