About the Reviewers

Gabriel D'Antona has been working in the information technology industry since 1998, mainly in the media/telecommunications business. He has been a Splunk advocate since 2012, introducing the system for the first time to his current employer. He is also an open source and technology enthusiast, actively working on projects such as Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME)—a multi-system emulator—and researching the HTML5/Javascript technologies privately.

Travis Marlette has been championing Splunk in the organizations he has worked with over the past 6 years. He has architected and implemented multiple Splunk deployments, leveraging both clustered and distributed deployments in medium- to enterprise-class institutions, primarily for the cutting-edge financial services industry. His experience ranges from the newest of technologies, such as Hadoop and AWS, to more legacy infrastructure, such as mainframe technologies, and the integration of Splunk into both old and modern data center environments.

Having recently focused on operational efficiency and intelligence, Travis has also leveraged Splunk for:

• Business intelligence
• Executive-level overview
• Marketing analysis using big data
• ROI tracking
• High availability and disaster recovery for Splunk
• Splunk for Security (the replacement for SIEM)

He has also worked on beta testing many of the new functionalities of Splunk during their product releases and assisted in troubleshooting the Splunk platform as a whole.

He has worked for companies such as Lehman Brothers, Barclays, and Bank of New York and is currently working with another Fortune 100 company to implement its goal for Splunk and operational excellence. The scope of the yearlong project consists of consolidating toolsets to create a single pane of glass for the enterprise tier 1 and tier 2 support staff to maximize work efficiencies and reduce MTTR by at least 20 percent over the next year while allowing full access to remote application administration and remote monitoring to all customers to share intelligence and increase knowledge sharing between silos. This is being done even as they reduce operational expenditure by replacing legacy toolsets.

He truly enjoys what he does, bringing to light many of the underlying opportunities organizations have to streamline efficiency and gain real value from some of the most cryptic or antiquated machine information. Giving this intelligence to the right eyes in an organization is part of his passion.

Brian Warehime is an analyst by trade and has come to use Splunk in his day-to-day operations as a crucial tool for analysis and research. He came to use and administer Splunk a few years ago and has enjoyed using it ever since as it has helped him in many different components of his job.

Brian is currently working at Aplura LLC, which is a small consulting firm specializing in Splunk Professional Services. While at Aplura, he started working with a large marketing company and originally helped deploy its Splunk infrastructure and set up various inputs; however, he currently works on the security team and uses Splunk every day to investigate incidents and analyze threats.