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Splunk Now Available on Microsoft Azure

Splunk announced the general availability of its enterprise security, observability and platform offerings on Microsoft Azure.

In partnering with Microsoft Corp., Splunk empowers organizations to scale their digital transformation on Azure with unified solutions that accelerate innovation and strengthen security.

"Splunk's strategic partnership with Microsoft to build Splunk natively on Azure demonstrates our commitment to advancing digital resilience to help our customers and partners remain secure and up and running at every step of their cloud journey,” said Tom Casey, Senior Vice President, Splunk Products & Technology Group. “Together, Splunk and Microsoft are integrating enterprise data to strengthen digital resilience and deliver superior hybrid-cloud solutions, both natively and on-premises, that help organizations achieve their digital transformation strategy. Today’s news emphasizes Splunk’s dedication to meeting our customers where they are, and we are pleased to now offer even more flexibility on the trusted Microsoft Azure platform.”

Built natively on Microsoft Azure and powered by Splunk AI, the availability of Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise Security, and Splunk IT Service Intelligence enhances the agility and flexibility of Splunk’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings by enabling comprehensive visibility, rapid detection and investigation, and optimized response. With Splunk on Microsoft Azure, customers and partners can leverage powerful data insights to accelerate innovation, strengthen security postures and optimize infrastructure and application performance.

Existing Splunk customers can choose to migrate on-premises or self-managed cloud deployments to Microsoft Azure, ensuring enhanced security and reliability by delegating the management and deployment of their Splunk infrastructure to Azure. This transition frees up internal resources to focus on mission-critical initiatives rather than managing self-hosted Splunk deployments. With access to the SaaS offerings of Splunk, organizations will be able to unlock cloud value and drive security and observability outcomes from within their Azure environment. Customers with a Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) can utilize their commitment toward Splunk.

Benefits of Splunk deployment on Azure include:

- Simpler administration: Splunk will manage the IT backend for customers’ Splunk deployments, allowing customer teams to act on data insights and explore and implement new use cases.

- Fewer infrastructure requirements: Splunk-provisioned and managed infrastructure delivers a turnkey, cloud-based and scalable data analytics solution.

- Lower total cost of ownership (TCO): Existing Azure customers save on administrative costs and overhead costs, as well as the costs associated with managing private data centers or public cloud infrastructures. They can also avoid egress and ingress costs.

- Improved security: Customers will benefit from consistent Splunk releases to enhance security.

“Accelerating the outcomes and opportunity of AI is essential to meeting the needs of customers across the globe,” said Deb Cupp, President, Microsoft Americas. “Splunk and Microsoft share a commitment to help organizations succeed in the AI era. Our partnership empowers rapid innovation that supports our joint customers’ journey to expedite digital resilience and drive success.”

“The Splunk and Microsoft alliance helps large organizations with complex IT stacks scale their AI transformation efforts and deliver visibility across data sources to ensure enterprise resiliency,” said Michelle Abraham, Research Director, Security and Trust, IDC. “As trusted innovators, Splunk and Microsoft provide customers with the ability to unlock value by simplifying infrastructure requirements, improving security, and decreasing the total cost of ownership.”

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Splunk Now Available on Microsoft Azure

Splunk announced the general availability of its enterprise security, observability and platform offerings on Microsoft Azure.

In partnering with Microsoft Corp., Splunk empowers organizations to scale their digital transformation on Azure with unified solutions that accelerate innovation and strengthen security.

"Splunk's strategic partnership with Microsoft to build Splunk natively on Azure demonstrates our commitment to advancing digital resilience to help our customers and partners remain secure and up and running at every step of their cloud journey,” said Tom Casey, Senior Vice President, Splunk Products & Technology Group. “Together, Splunk and Microsoft are integrating enterprise data to strengthen digital resilience and deliver superior hybrid-cloud solutions, both natively and on-premises, that help organizations achieve their digital transformation strategy. Today’s news emphasizes Splunk’s dedication to meeting our customers where they are, and we are pleased to now offer even more flexibility on the trusted Microsoft Azure platform.”

Built natively on Microsoft Azure and powered by Splunk AI, the availability of Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise Security, and Splunk IT Service Intelligence enhances the agility and flexibility of Splunk’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings by enabling comprehensive visibility, rapid detection and investigation, and optimized response. With Splunk on Microsoft Azure, customers and partners can leverage powerful data insights to accelerate innovation, strengthen security postures and optimize infrastructure and application performance.

Existing Splunk customers can choose to migrate on-premises or self-managed cloud deployments to Microsoft Azure, ensuring enhanced security and reliability by delegating the management and deployment of their Splunk infrastructure to Azure. This transition frees up internal resources to focus on mission-critical initiatives rather than managing self-hosted Splunk deployments. With access to the SaaS offerings of Splunk, organizations will be able to unlock cloud value and drive security and observability outcomes from within their Azure environment. Customers with a Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) can utilize their commitment toward Splunk.

Benefits of Splunk deployment on Azure include:

- Simpler administration: Splunk will manage the IT backend for customers’ Splunk deployments, allowing customer teams to act on data insights and explore and implement new use cases.

- Fewer infrastructure requirements: Splunk-provisioned and managed infrastructure delivers a turnkey, cloud-based and scalable data analytics solution.

- Lower total cost of ownership (TCO): Existing Azure customers save on administrative costs and overhead costs, as well as the costs associated with managing private data centers or public cloud infrastructures. They can also avoid egress and ingress costs.

- Improved security: Customers will benefit from consistent Splunk releases to enhance security.

“Accelerating the outcomes and opportunity of AI is essential to meeting the needs of customers across the globe,” said Deb Cupp, President, Microsoft Americas. “Splunk and Microsoft share a commitment to help organizations succeed in the AI era. Our partnership empowers rapid innovation that supports our joint customers’ journey to expedite digital resilience and drive success.”

“The Splunk and Microsoft alliance helps large organizations with complex IT stacks scale their AI transformation efforts and deliver visibility across data sources to ensure enterprise resiliency,” said Michelle Abraham, Research Director, Security and Trust, IDC. “As trusted innovators, Splunk and Microsoft provide customers with the ability to unlock value by simplifying infrastructure requirements, improving security, and decreasing the total cost of ownership.”

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A Gartner analyst recently suggested that GenAI tools could create 25% time savings for network operational teams. Where might these time savings come from? How are GenAI tools helping NetOps teams today, and what other tasks might they take on in the future as models continue improving? In general, these savings come from automating or streamlining manual NetOps tasks ...

IT and line-of-business teams are increasingly aligned in their efforts to close the data gap and drive greater collaboration to alleviate IT bottlenecks and offload growing demands on IT teams, according to The 2025 Automation Benchmark Report: Insights from IT Leaders on Enterprise Automation & the Future of AI-Driven Businesses from Jitterbit ...

A large majority (86%) of data management and AI decision makers cite protecting data privacy as a top concern, with 76% of respondents citing ROI on data privacy and AI initiatives across their organization, according to a new Harris Poll from Collibra ...

According to Gartner, Inc. the following six trends will shape the future of cloud over the next four years, ultimately resulting in new ways of working that are digital in nature and transformative in impact ...

2020 was the equivalent of a wedding with a top-shelf open bar. As businesses scrambled to adjust to remote work, digital transformation accelerated at breakneck speed. New software categories emerged overnight. Tech stacks ballooned with all sorts of SaaS apps solving ALL the problems — often with little oversight or long-term integration planning, and yes frequently a lot of duplicated functionality ... But now the music's faded. The lights are on. Everyone from the CIO to the CFO is checking the bill. Welcome to the Great SaaS Hangover ...

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