>>live from Las Vegas. It's the Cube covering Splunk dot com. 19. Brought to you by spunk >>Welcome back Everyone's two cubes Live coverage from Las Vegas. Four Splunk dot com 2019 The 10th anniversary of their and user conference I'm John Free host of the key that starts seventh year covering Splunk Riding the wave of Big Data Day three of our three days were winding down. Our show are great to have on next guest Didn't Medoc executive director be Ibis Intelligence? Advanced Data Analytics at Clemson University Big A C C. Football team Everyone knows that. Great stadium. Great to have you on. Thanks for spending the time to come by and on Day three coverage. >>Thanks, John, for having me over. >>So, you know, hospitals, campuses, some use cases just encapsulate the digital opportunities and challenges. But you guys air have that kind of same thing going on. You got students, you got people who work there. You got a I ot or campus to campus is you guys are living the the real life example of physical digital coming together. Tell us about what's going on in your world that Clemson wouldn't your job there. What's your current situation? >>So, like you mentioned, we have a lot of students. So Clemson's about 20,000 undergraduate, children's and 5000 graduate students way faculty and staff. So you're talking about a lot of people every semester. We have new devices coming in. We have to support the entire network infrastructure, our student information systems on and research computing. So way we're focused on how convene make students lives better than experience. Better on how convene facilitated education for them. So way try toe in my role. Specifically, I'm responsible for the advanced eight analytics, the data that we're collecting from our systems. How can we? How can you use that on get more insides for better decision making? So that's that's >>Is a scope university wide, or is it specifically targeted for certain areas? >>So it does interest divide. So we have. We have some key projects going on University wide way, have a project for sure and success. There's a project for space utilization and how how, how we can utilize space and campus more efficiently. And then we're looking at energy energy usage across buildings campus emergency management idea. So we've got a couple of projects, and then Pettersson projects that most hired edge motion overseas work on this father's retention enrollment, graduation rates. How how the academics are. So so we're doing the same thing. >>What's interesting is that the new tagline for Splunk is data to everything. You got a lot of things. Their data. Ah, lot of horizontal use cases. So it seems to me that you have, ah, view and we're kind of talking on camera before we went live here was Dana is a fluid situation is not like just a subsystem. It's gotta be every native everywhere in the organization on touched, touches everything. How do you guys look at the data? Because you want to harness the data? Because data getting gathering on, say, energy. Your specialization might be great data to look at endpoint protection, for instance. I don't know. I'm making it up, but data needs to be workable. Cross. How do you view that? What's what's the state of the art thinking around data everywhere? >>So the key thing is, we've got so many IOC's. We've got so many sensors, we've got so many servers, it's it's hard when you work with different technologies to sort of integrate all of them on in the industry that have bean Some some software companies that try to view themselves as being deking, but really the way to dress it does you look at each system, you look at how you can integrate all of that, all of that data without being deking. So you basically analyze the data from different systems. You figured out a way to get it into a place where you can analyze it on, then make decisions based on that. So so that's essentially what we've been focused on. Working on >>Splunk role in all this is because one of things that we've been doing spot I've been falling spunk for a long time in a very fascinated with law. How they take log files and make make value out of that. And their vision now is that Grew is grow is they're enabling a lot of value of the data which I love. I think it's a mission that's notable, relevant and certainly gonna help a lot of use cases. But their success has been about just dumping data on display and then getting value out of it. How does that translate into this kind of data space that you're looking at, because does it work across all areas? What should what specifically are you guys doing with Splunk and you talk about the case. >>So we're looking at it as a platform, like, how can we provide ah self service platform toe analysts who can who can go into system, analyze the data way not We're not focusing on a specific technology, so our platform is built up of multiple technologies. We have tableau for visual analytics. We're also using Splunk. We also have a data warehouse. We've got a lot of databases. We have a Kafka infrastructure. So how can we integrate all of these tools and give give the choice to the people to use the tools, the place where we really see strong helping us? Originally in our journey when we started, our network team used to long for getting log data from switches. It started off troubleshooting exercise of a switch went down. You know what was wrong with it? Eventually we pulled in all for server logs. That's where security guard interested apart from the traditional idea of monitoring security, saw value in the data on. And then we talked about the whole ecosystem. That that's one provides. It gives you a way to bring in data withdrawal based access control so you can have data in a read only state that you can change when it's in the system and then give access to people to a specific set of data. So so that's that's really game changing, even for us. Like having having people be comfortable to opening data to two analysts for so that they can make better decisions. That's that's the key with a lot of product announcements made during dot com, I think the exciting thing is it's Nargis, the data that you index and spunk anymore, especially with the integration with With Dew and s three. You don't have to bring in your data in response. So even if you have your data sitting in history, our audio do cluster, you can just use the data fabric search and Sarge across all your data sets. And from what I hear that are gonna be more integrations that are gonna be added to the tool. So >>that's awesome. Well, that's a good use. Case shows that they're thinking about it. I got to ask you about Clemson to get into some of the things that you guys do in knowing Clemson. You guys have a lot of new things. You do your university here, building stuff here, you got people doing research. So you guys are bringing on new stuff, The network, a lot of new technology. Is there security concerns in terms of that, How do you guys handle that? Because you want to encourage innovation, students and faculty at the same time. You want gonna have the data to make sure you get the security without giving away the security secrets are things that you do. How do you look at the data when you got an environment that encourages people to put more stuff on the network to generate more data? Because devices generate data project, create more data. How do you view that? How do you guys handle that? >>So our mission and our goal is not to disrupt the student experience. Eso we want to make it seem less. And as we as we get influx of students every semester, we have way have challenges that the traditional corporate sector doesn't have. If you think about our violence infrastructure. We're talking about 20 25,000 students on campus. They're moving around. When, when? When they move from one class to another, they're switching between different access points. So having a robust infrastructure, how can we? How can we use the data to be more proactive and build infrastructure that's more stable? It also helps us plan for maintenance is S O. We don't destruct. Children's so looking at at key usage patterns. How what time's Our college is more active when our submissions happening when our I. D. Computing service is being access more and then finding out the time, which is gonna be less disruptive, do the students. So that's that's how we what's been >>the biggest learnings and challenges that you've overcome or opportunities that you see with data that Clemson What's the What's the exciting areas and or things that you guys have tripped over on, or what I have learned from? We'll share some experiences of what's going on in there for you, >>So I think Sky's the limit here. Really like that is so much data and so less people in the industry, it's hard to analyze all of the data and make sense of it. And it's not just the people who were doing the analysis. You also need people who understand the data. So the data, the data stores, the data trustees you need you need buy in from them. They're the ones who understand what data looks like, how how it should be structured, how, how, how it can be provided for additional analysis s Oh, that's That's the key thing. What's >>the coolest thing you're working on right now? >>So I'm specifically working on analyzing data from our learning management system canvas. So we're getting data informer snapshots that we're trying to analyze, using multiple technologies for that spunk is one of them. But we're loading the data, looking at at key trends, our colleges interacting, engaging with that elements. How can we drive more adoption? How can we encourage certain colleges and departments, too sort of moved to a digital classroom Gordon delivery experience. >>I just l a mess part of the curriculum in gym or online portion? Or is it integrated into the physical curriculum? >>So it's at this time it's more online, But are we trying to trying to engage more classes and more faculty members to use the elements to deliver content. So >>right online, soon to be integrated in Yeah, you know, I was talking with Dawn on our team from the Cube and some of the slum people this week. Look at this event. This is a physical event. Get physical campuses digitizing. Everything is kind of a nirvana. It's kind of aspiration is not. People aren't really doing 100% but people are envisioning that the physical and digital worlds are coming together. If that happens and it's going to happen at some point, it's a day that problem indeed, Opportunity date is everything right? So what's your vision of that as a professional or someone in the industry and someone dealing with data Clemson Because you can digitize everything, Then you can instrument everything of your instrument, everything you could start creating an official efficiencies and innovations. >>Yes, so the way I think you you structure it very accurately. It's amalgam of the physical world and the digital world as the as the as the world is moving towards using more more of smartphones and digital devices, how how can we improve experience by by analyzing the data on and sort of be behind the scenes without even having the user. The North is what's going on trading expedience. If the first expedience is in good that the user has, they're not going to be inclined to continue using the service that we offer. >>What's your view on security now? Splunk House League has been talking about security for a long time. I think about five years ago we started seeing the radar data. Is driving a lot of the cyber security now is ever Everyone knows that you guys have a lot of endpoints. Security's always a concern. How do you guys view the security of picture with data? How do you guys talk about that internally? How do you guys implement data without giving me a secret? You know, >>way don't have ah ready Good Cyber Security Operation Center. That's run by students on. And they do a tremendous job protecting our environment. Way monitored. A lot of activity that goes on higher I deserve is a is a challenge because way have in the corporate industry, you can you can have a set of devices in the in the higher education world We have students coming in every semester that bringing in new, important devices. It causes some unique set of challenges knowing where devices are getting on the network. If if there's fishing campaigns going on, how can be, How can we protect that environment and those sort of things? >>It is great to have you on. First of all, love to have folks from Clemson ons great great university got a great environment. Great Great conversation. Congratulations on all your success on their final question for you share some stories around some mischief that students do because students or students, you know, they're gonna get on the network and most things down. Like when when I was in school, when we were learning they're all love coding. They're all throwing. Who knows? Kitty scripts out there hosting Blockchain mining algorithms. They gonna cause some creek. Curiosity's gonna cause potentially some issues. Um, can you share some funny or interesting student stories of caught him in the dorm room, but a server in there running a Web farm? Is there any kind of cool experiences you can share? That might be interesting to folks that students have done that have been kind of funny mistress, but innovative. >>So without going into Thio, I just say, Like most universities, we have, we have students and computer science programs and people who were programmers and sort of trying to pursue the security route in the industry. So they, um, way also have a lot of research going on the network on. And sometimes research going on may affect our infrastructure environment. So we tried toe account for those use cases and on silo specific use cases and into a dedicated network. >>So they hit the honeypot a lot. They're freshmen together. I'll go right to the kidding, of course. >>Yes. So way do we do try to protect that environment on Dhe. Makes shooting experience better. >>I know you don't want to give any secrets. Thanks for coming on. I always find a talk tech with you guys. Thanks so much appreciated. Okay. Cube coverage. I'm shot for a year. Day three of spunk dot com for more coverage after this short break