iTWire - Splunk introduces machine learning and intelligent service desk

Splunk has traditionally been a tool to ingest, index and enable searching across vast bodies of data from multiple disparate sources. Rick Fitz, vice-president of IT Markets, explains the driving forces behind the introduction of machine learning, announced this week at the 7th annual Splunk conference, .conf Data doesn't live in a vacuum. "The goal of the data is how do I make better business decisions?" Machine learning, Fitz explains, adds context and meaning to all this data that has been gathered through the use of algorithms.