Splunk is an amazing tool for analyzing machine data that is moving from IT use to providing business insights.

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The a significant number of organizations could probably make quite a bit of hay from using Splunk, a distributed software for distilling and analyzing machine data that can be applied to data in file systems, in databases, or in Hadoop clusters.

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