How Precisely and Splunk Can Help You Better Manage Your IBM Z and IBM i Environments

Editor's Notes

1. These Mainframe and IBM I systems are the core of many businesses and are critical parts of their operation. Often because they are considered “legacy” they don’t get included in modern IT initiatives. Ironstream can easily integrate them with Splunk, unlocking all the value of the Splunk platform for these critical systems.
2. Key Takeaways The Data Age requires rethinking the technology that’s needed Our strategy includes building, buying and investing in new technology  Our product teams have created all the products and capabilities you need to build for the Data Age  Talk Track The next wave of data challenges aren’t going resemble the ones we’ve faced in the past and neither are the technologies we’ll all need to face them. With this comes new demands for new platform requirements. In order to thrive in the Data Age, you need a platform that works in a hybrid environment, has a diverse set of data capabilities and empowers your business with market-leading solutions.   Our Data-to-Everything Platform is the best on the market. With a single platform, you have the capabilities you need where your data lives giving you full control and visibility over your entire data landscape so you can meet the new data platform requirements and navigate through your transformational challenges. 
3. Key Takeaways Splunk is all in on cloud There are two big ways you can benefit Our re-architected Splunk Cloud means incredible improvements in performance and innovation for those who move to our cloud offering And we also offer incredible capabilities to help you on your journey to the cloud.  Talk Track In addition to many of the incredible innovations we’ve delivered across our platform, I also want to make sure it’s clear that we are cloud first. There are two distinct cloud pieces I want to cover. First, we have completely re-architected our offering to take advantage of the cloud. Our all new Splunk Cloud brings a level of speed and scale, a pace of innovation and breadth of capabilities that far outpace anything we’ve delivered before. Existing customers and new customers to our cloud offerings will really see a whole new level of performance with our cloud products.  Second, we’ve assembled an amazing set of capabilities across our IT, Security and Observability portfolio to assist you on YOUR cloud journey. No matter where you are on your journey to the cloud, having the right data strategy will compliment your cloud strategy as you transition, manage costs, set security controls and plenty more. If you’d like we can deeper into what we can deliver to help with your cloud transformation after this presentation.  Part of our journey to help our customers as they move to the cloud and modernize their IT and developer practices led us to make major investments in observability….
4. The most important takeaway from this presentation is that the IBM Mainframe and IBM i systems are not available to Splunk without a bridge of some type. When you hear about either of these systems at a Splunk customer you should consider Precisely. The primary reason why these systems are not part of Splunk analytics is that no one is presenting the customer with a solution.
5. The two most common use cases for Ironstream. Note that almost any Splunk use case is applicable, these are just the two we see most often. High performance platform for collecting critical system information in real-time Normalization of the z/OS and IBM i data so it can be used off platform analytics engines Full analytics, visualization, and customization with no limitations on what can be viewed Ability to easily combine information from different data sources and systems Address the SME challenge: use by network managers, security analysts, application analysts, enterprise architects without requiring mainframe/IBM i access or expertise
6. Reduced time to repair: Quickly and accurately prioritize and filter numerous events through a centralized Operations dashboard. Ironstream seamlessly integrates in the Micro Focus topology-based event correlation. Analyzes complex event streams using the context of the automatically discovered infrastructure to further enhance productivity by allowing operations staff to quickly determine the cause of a problem. Improved quality of service: Experience outstanding availability and performance when you manage the IT infrastructure as a comprehensive ecosystem rather than separate domains. Reduced cost: Reduce duplication of effort expended on separate but related issues. Intelligently designed for minimal footprint and negligible system resource consumption. Investment protection: Leverage investments in the IBM z/OS and IBM i environments, making them a significant part of a consolidated enterprise environment. Get business Insights that were previously not possible