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We are excited to announce our Giga-level sponsorship of .conf2016: The 7th Annual Splunk Conference. Stop by our booth, #G14, to meet the team of experts credited with designing the base architecture for large Splunk software deployments and developing enterprise-class governance and data on-boarding.

"We've been going to .conf events since its inception and have been proud sponsors for the past five years, so we understand the remarkable opportunity .conf2016 offers everyone involved," said Ashish Bhutiani, CEO of Function1. "It's amazing to see firsthand how much .conf events have grown over the years, which is a true testament to Splunk's unrivaled leadership in the data analytics field. Combining Splunk's unmatched platform with Function1's highly specialized team allows organizations to operate at peak efficiency by gaining powerful, real-time insight into their machine data. Attending .conf2016 will help our team to stay current with trends while giving back to the Splunk community; it's an event we look forward to every year."  

.conf2016 will feature more than 175 technical sessions, including more than 180 customer presentations, and is expected to attract IT, security and business professionals who know the value of their data. The conference will be held September 26 – 29, at The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resorts, Orlando, FL, with three days of optional education classes through Splunk University, September 24 – 26, 2016.

Our Technical Manager, Rupak Pandya, will be leading a .conf2016 breakout session, "User Hygiene: Gaining Greater Insight into User Habits and Activity in your Splunk Environment" on Wednesday, September 28. Rupak's presentation explores how to use the REST API to generate various metrics that ensure clean, efficient Splunk environments.

.conf2016 attendees will learn how to gain Operational Intelligence from machine-generated data by improving customer experience and service delivery, enhancing IT performance, shipping better code faster, providing timely business insights or reaching new levels of security in their organization. With more than 50 percent of the Fortune 100 in attendance, it's the best place to learn how leading companies are using Splunk. Attendees will share best practices, discover new features and ways to implement Splunk software to gain insights from their data. Register for .conf2016. At the conference, follow .conf2016 on LinkedIn and Twitter @splunkconf (all conversations tagged #splunkconf16).