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• Deloitte inks tech deal with cyber analytics firm

  Deloitte has teamed up with Converging Data in a bid to boost its cyber analytics team and deliver expertise in big data, AI and security orchestration and response (SOAR).

• Government calls on white hat hackers

  ​The Australian Government is urging white hat hackers to enter a 24-hour cyber security competition.

• ​Machine data cure to IT's existential crisis, says Splunk's Andi Mann

  IT departments are facing an existential crisis of their own making, says Splunk chief technology advocate Andi Mann, but "metric that matter" can save them from oblivion and increase their value to the business.

• Splunk's ambition to weave machine data fabric through your entire business

  When Splunk CTO Snehal Antani walked on stage to deliver closing keynote at the seventh annual Splunk user conference in Orlando last week he carried with him a new addition to the company's line of funny slogan t-shirts. It bore a pun to sum up the company's new outlook: "Don't be a tool".

• Splunk puts machine learning at center of operational intelligence portfolio

  Splunk is making machine learning capabilities a core capability of its real-time operational intelligence platforms to help companies use predictive analytics to optimize IT, security and business operations.

• ​Driving transformation through continuous delivery and insights

  IT chiefs discuss how they are improving their organisation's operational intelligence.

• CIO roundtable: Driving transformation through continuous delivery (Melbourne)

  Senior IT executives gathered at Melbourne's Vue De Monde restaurant to discuss how they are tapping their data to improve operational intelligence. The luncheon was sponsored by Splunk.

• CIO roundtable: Driving transformation through continuous delivery (Sydney)

  Senior IT executives gathered at Sydney's Aria restaurant to discuss how they are tapping their data to improve operational intelligence. The luncheon was sponsored by Splunk.

• Open-source startup hopes to change the way businesses visualize data

  A Boulder, Colorado-based startup announced today that it has raised $3.6 million in seed funding to build the commercial version of the SlamData open-source project, helping businesses visualize semi-structured NoSQL data.

• New query language could turn log files into business insights

  IT departments have long relied on log data to help keep systems up and running, but they're not the only ones who can benefit from these vast stores of information. A new analytics language from Logentries could help managers tap log data to gain insights about their business.
  

• Tableau adds new enticements to its free data visualization tool

  Tableau's Web-based version of its analytics system allows data visualizations to be published, re-used, and embedded in Web pages as if they were YouTube videos. But the full product comes with a sizeable cost: $1K per user and up.

• Box unveils a new partner program to boost customer trust

  A lot of businesses trust cloud sync-and-store provider Box, but they trust a lot of other solutions, too, for things like identity, data loss protection and digital rights management.

• Big Data digest: Rise of the think-bots

  It turns out that a vital missing ingredient in the long-sought after goal of getting machines to think like humans -- artificial intelligence -- has been lots and lots of data.

• Splunk digs deeper with Stream app for network monitoring

  Splunk's new App for Stream will give IT departments more insight into their infrastructures by collecting network traffic on response times, network performance and database queries.

• Forget Five 9s, Splunk Promises 100 Percent Uptime

  Operational intelligence specialist Splunk says its customers need to know that that the data platforms they depend on to monitor their environments are completely reliable, so it's putting its money where its mouth is. Today, the company unveiled a 100 percent uptime service level agreement (SLA) for Splunk Cloud.