Cory Minton, Principal Engineer, Data Analytics Leader, Dell EMC AND Colin Gallagher, Sr Director Product Marketing, HCI, Dell EMC, sit with Dave Vellante and John Walls for Splunk .conf 2017 in Washington D.C. #splunkconf17 #theCUBE Splunk taps ecosystem to make data solutions, not slogans Dell EMC whacks infra weeds so you don’t have to Dell EMC’s Ready Systems for Splunk come in a variety of flavors to suit the full range of Splunk users, according to Cory Minton, data analytics go-to-market leader at Dell EMC. “Whatever reason they buy Splunk for, whatever workload or business outcome they’re trying to achieve, we accelerate it,” Minton told theCUBE. How can Dell EMC’s infrastructure help companies that just want to run Splunk applications? More than they know, Minton added. In this era of cloud and instant spin-up/spin-down gratification, customers may forget about low-level infrastructure. But no high-level application is independent of infrastructure beneath it. Lest they forget, cloud is another term for infrastructure as a service. They have not gotten rid of infrastructure, even if they can’t see it. “Whether they like infrastructure or they think it’s valuable or not, what they need to understand is that there are impacts,” Minton said. A company running Splunk Enterprise for collecting and indexing data might decide to add on the newer Splunk Enterprise Security. Easy, right? Not so fast, Minton stated. There are considerable downstream effects the new addition may have in terms of capacity or performance. If the application team has not accounted for these, they could cause serious issues and slow down business, he added. This is the point of Splunk and Dell EMC’s joint engineering and joint certification for Ready Systems. The infrastructure comes pre-fitted for Splunk apps. “That’s work that customers don’t have to do, and that’s value that we can deliver to them,” Minton said.