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What is Operational Intelligence? A category of methods and technology for gaining new operational visibility and discovering insights for IT and the business. Download this infographic to learn more about applying operational intelligence, how Splunk works, and the benefits of operational intelligence.

December 9, 2017

Introduction Few need convincing that the pace of change in modern business is skyrocketing and that the complexity of operations is increasing just as quickly. Less clear is the path to better methods of managing that change and conquering complexity. This paper introduces the concept of operational intelligence, a way of gathering information and creating […]

December 9, 2017

If you want to get CTOs in a lather, ask them which programming language they recommend to build an advanced Web site. Jon Williams, CTO of Flat World Knowledge, recently spawned a red-hot thread on the New York CTO Club list by asking this very question. If you want to get CTOs in a lather, […]

December 9, 2017

In a recent interview with Forbes, Treb Ryan explains his analysis of how the multi-tenant architecture used for most large software-as-a-service applications will become dominant and present a challenge to the relevance and importance of a large amount of open source software. Treb Ryan is chief executive of OpSource, a company that specializes in enterprise […]

December 9, 2017

When it was revealed in 1931, the world of mathematics and logic was shocked by Kurt Godels’ Incompleteness Theorem, which holds that there are certain statements in every axiomatic system that are neither true nor false. When it was revealed in 1931, the world of mathematics and logic was shocked by Kurt Godels’ Incompleteness Theorem, […]

December 9, 2017

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