“Data exhaust” is the focal point of Splunk’s business. It includes “byproduct” data from things like GPS, RFID, hypervisor, web servers, email, messaging, clickstreams, mobile, telephony, databases, and more, data that is created simply by the act of running a machine.

DataBeat 2014 kicked off with a keynote from author Tom Davenport, who spoke on the data bottleneck and the emergence of an Analytics 3.0 world.

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