Splunk Brings Machine Learning to Data Analytics

The developers at the data analytics company Splunk have been keeping busy. On Tuesday the company announced expanded machine learning capabilities across its entire product line, with new releases of five products. The timing of the releases might have something to do with the fact that they were announced at .conf2017 in Washington, D.C. -- otherwise known as the 8th Annual Splunk Conference -- because that's the way the tech world rolls. Splunk is a San Francisco based software company that's been around since 2003. It's stock-in-trade is software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data by way of a Web-style interface.