When A Cybersecurity Package and Big Data Save Lives …

And so Splunk has shown the world how to should use Big Data within cyber security. But the potential of Splunk is so much great than using it for Cybersecurity, and will keep your marketing department happy that they know the number of people who use iPhones that access their site, and keep IT Support happy logging the down time on the network. In fact, Splunk is one of the easiest sells to an executive team, and provides a way for companies to merge their data into a single data infrastructure. If you add Hadoop into the equation, then you are becoming a company which takes data seriously.

While Splunk has been a massive success within cybersecurity and in business analytics, it is now moving into other areas [here]:

We can thus imagine a future where Splunk could be used by health care systems, and where we could apply machine learning into diagnosing on onset of illnesses. Many privacy concerns…