The opening keynote had interesting product news and some great demos as Splunk increased its feature sprawl. ![]() This engagement reinforces the importance of Splunk and its partners to the SOC teams. I believe Splunk said it was the seventh year, and it had grown to 700 from 400 attendees just last year. And they have a chance to have Splunk experts help them, which provides real-world value when they head back home. Also, the winners are covered in glory with on-stage recognition, free passes, and the envy of their peers. Why? The scenarios were both fun and challenging – kudos to the organizers who claimed that by doing this they could avoid booth duty. An IDC analyst I spoke with said that the latter are hard to find, so apparently we are filling many needs for IT and security these days.Īfter the show closed, SOC teams elbowed their way to a reservation-only "Boss of the SOC" contest that lasted from 730 to after midnight. Folks were stoked to be there, eager to drink and eat well (steamship turkey roast, not just high-carb munchies), and excited to get light-up bouncy balls. In two hours, the ExtraHop teams spoke with more than 250 people. Splunk pointed out that the attendee count had doubled since 2016 as they increase their momentum in the IT Ops and SIEM space. If you weren't able to get to Orlando as one of the 8,000+ attendees at this year's event, I'd like to share my key takeaways and a few experiences that might be useful, or perhaps at least entertaining.įirst, day one of the Conference was a madhouse with registration and a pub crawl on the show floor.
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