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It’s here!! Day 10 of 10 of our Virtual Race to .conf20 #VR2C! Today we chat about the Splunk Trust with Ryan Plas, Splunk Trust MVP. Ryan shares what it takes to earn one of the mythical Fez’s, and how to become a member of the Splunk Trust. He also shares some of his favorite tools and ways to engage with other Splunk users & partners. Love the Splunk community? Give this episode a listen. Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e10/)

We are on day 9 of 10 of the Virtual Race to .conf20, #VR2C! We sat down with Jac Noel – Security Solutions Architect in Intel IT Information Security, & Merritte Stidston – Technical Solution Specialist in Intel’s data platforms sales group. We hear how Intel is using Splunk internally, as well as their partnership with architectures based on the latest Intel technology. Jax and Merritte share how Intel is catching the bad guys with Splunk and how Intel is working with Splunk to optimize Splunk for their customers. We also learn what key metrics customers are looking for with Splunk performance. Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e9/)

We are on day 8 of or Virtual Race to .conf20 #VR2C. Today we hear about Karthik Rau, VP of Observability at Splunk. First we get a quick overview of what is observability and how Splunk is contributing to OpenTelemetry. Karhik also shares some of the standards needed for building a strong practice. To finish, we hear about how Splunk earned it’s spot in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for APM through it’s acquisition of SignalFX, Omnition and contributions to OpenTelemetry.   Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e8/)

It’s day 7 of our Virtual Race to .conf20! #VR2C Today we chat with Brian Clarke – Security SME, Design Engineering for Red River Technology. Brian shares his history of ethical hacking, and tells us of some of the security challenges organizations are facing today. We also learn how Red River uses Splunk to help solve IOT and security problems for a number of their customers in the federal space. Brian also shares what he’s excited for at .conf20 and what to be on the lookout for! Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e7/)

We are at Daytona for day 6 of our Virtual Race to .conf20, #VR2C! Today we meet Joshua Parrish who is a Principal Field Applications Engineer for Arrow Electronics. Joshua shares around one of the coolest projects ever, the SAM (semi-autonomous mobility) car. We learn about the history of the project, and how it’s given drivers the ability to race again. Joshua also shares about the technical process of undertaking a project like this, and some of the design principles required for safe operation.   Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e6/)

Welcome to day five of our Virtual Race to .conf20 #VR2C! Our guests today are Jaynene Hapanowicz – CTO of Dell Digital, & Will Hudson – VP, IT for Dell Digital. We hear a bit around how Dell quickly implemented their work from home policy this year during the pandemic. Jaynene and Will also share a bit around Spunk and Observability are impacting them as they transition from a reactive to proactive IT environment.   Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e5/)

Join us on our fourth day of our virtual race to .conf20! #VR2C as we chat with Albert Biketi, VP of Security Business at Splunk. Albert shows us how businesses are going through a digital transformation and how we must change our security posture to adapt in this new digital world. We also hear about future trends of AI / ML as it relates to security with Splunk and learn a bit about some F1 trivia as well! Join in on the fun here.   Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e4/)

Today on our Virtual Race to .conf20 #VR2C, we are at Silverstone! Dan McEwen Head of Partnerships at McLaren Racing and James Hodge, Chief Technical Advisor at Splunk join us and share insights around the McLaren and Splunk partnership. We learn about McLaren’s e-sports program, Veloce. Dan also shares what McLaren has learned through virtual racing and how James and team at Splunk have been able to quickly provide views into multiple data sources for real time insights in racing.   Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e3/)

While we race at Laguna Seca on the #VR2C today, we chat with Kia Behnia, VP of IT Operations at Splunk. We learn how Splunk’s AIOps capabilities enable teams to provide 360 degree insights into your data. Kia shares how the networks landscape has change as we have transitioned to WFH this year. We also learn how AIOps is being applied to citical applications like SAP.   Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e2/)

Hear about the partners that are powering Splunk’s Virtual Race to .conf20. #VR2C Today we meet Amin Murad – Customer Solutions Architect at Red River Technologies. Amid shares how Red River helps customers use Splunk to answer their data analytics and IOT strategy. We also hear what’s next for the Splunk and Red River partnership, as well as what trends he’s excited about in the analytics space.   Full shownotes here (https://bigdatabeard.com/s8e1/)

We've talked a lot about the application and use cases around Artificial Intelligence but we have not really gone into the infrastructure that is powering this awesome technology.  In the season 7 finally of the Big Data Beard Podcast, Brett (https://twitter.com/bigdatabrett?lang=en)sits down with Nvidia's Chris Milroy (https://twitter.com/chris_milroy?lang=en) to dig into the technologies that are powering AI today.  Chris, a senior data scientist in Nvidia's (http://www.nvidia.com) public sector, talks about GPUs both past and present and their impact on the evolution of AI.  Its not just about GPUs however, Chris talks about the various hardware and software components, their impact on AI and Nvidia's strategy around integrating these components.  With Nvidia's recent ARM acquisition (https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-arm-for-40-billion-creating-worlds-premier-computing-company-for-the-age-of-ai), Chris gives a brief insight into why he is excited and how Nvidia is not just a GPU company. Just because season 7 is in the books doesn't mean the Big Data Beard team is going to be sitting on the beach having a drink.  On October 10th, we are starting the Virtual Race 2 .conf (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf_SHsP8jJI) with a daily virtual race video and podcast.  Make sure you check out (https://bigdatabeard.com/vr2c/) all the excitement and subscribe to our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/coryminton) so you don't miss any of the fun.

Join Cory Minton as he chats with Kyle Prins & Dean Jackson around their newest development, The Redfish Add-on for Splunk! We dive into the history of Redfish, why open standards are important, and how to get started with redfish. We also discuss the use cases of monitoring your servers via the new api and what valuable use cases you'll have for it. To finish we discuss our experience with Splunk Add-on Builder and the next steps for our add-on. Full notes here. (https://bigdatabeard.com/s7e5/)

Today Cory and Kyle sit down with GAI President, Jay Lambke, and CTO Prem Jadwhani. GAI, or Government Acquisitions, is a Federal ISO-certified VAR focused on empowering Federal missions with cutting-edge research and development. Jay and Prem also discuss how the Federa is adopting machine learning and they can use the "3 pillars of AI" to achieve success. We also hear how laws being passed recently affect those technologies. Jay and Prem also share some of the challenges that the government can face with artificial intelligence; like how to scale and secure these complex platforms. Full shownotes can be found here. (http://bit.ly/BDBS7E4)

One year ago, the Big Data Beard Team set out on the most epic roadtrip on the #IOTRV. We learned a lot about Splunk, IOT data, and living in an RV. However, this year threw us a curveball. So we decided to make our epic roadtrip even more awesome! With Splunk .conf20 being virtual (as have most of the professional racing series), the Big Data Beard team decided to race ourselves (virtually) to .conf20! Come listen to our wild idea and some of the excitement around our Virtual Race 2 .Conf20. You’ll hear a bit around the idea, the setups, and the projections as we share our excitement, as well as a bit of trash talking as we prep for the #VR2C20 starting on Oct 10!   Full shownotes can be found here. (http://bit.ly/BDBS7E3) Be sure to bookmark our Race page for all the latest news and info (https://bigdatabeard.com/vr2c/)

In this week’s podcast, Cory Minton sits down with returning guest Matt Cowell, CEO of Quanthub, to hear about some of the innovation and changes that have been taking place at Quanthub over the past year.  Quanthub, whose mission is to enable organizations to build great capabilities in data from data engineering to data science and advanced analytics provides skills assessments and a development platform to help organizations hire with confidence and for individuals to showcase and grow their skills.  Cory and Matt explore the state of data literacy and its impact in today’s analytical world. Interested in taking Quanthub for a spin? Click here to demo this awesome product for yourself!   Shownotes can be found here (http://bit.ly/BDBS7E2)