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James H. Baxter
James H. Baxter
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James H. Baxter

James H Baxter is the owner/CEO of Machine Data Insights, Inc., a certified Splunk architect, and a developer and machine learning practitioner with over 35 years of experience in various engineering and analysis disciplines, including radio/satellite; networks; capacity and performance modelling; speech technology; packet-level analysis; programming; and Splunk architecture, administration, and machine learning solutions for companies including MCI, IBM, BP, Disney, and AMEX. James is also a private pilot and holds an Extra class amateur radio and FCC Radiotelephone license. You can reach him at LinkedIn at James H. Baxter.
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Selecting Splunk hardware options

If you plan to implement and support your Splunk infrastructure internally (versus leveraging Splunk Cloud, wherein Splunk provides and manages the needed infrastructure for you), you will be building your solution on your own hardware platforms (physical or virtual servers), or on cloud-based instances (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and so on). For non-cloud environments, your organization will likely have a preferred hardware vendor that provides support options, so you will be selecting servers within the needed range of CPU, memory, and disk storage options from your vendor's offerings; cloud providers similarly offer a variety of sizing options.

Performance considerations

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James H. Baxter

James H Baxter is the owner/CEO of Machine Data Insights, Inc., a certified Splunk architect, and a developer and machine learning practitioner with over 35 years of experience in various engineering and analysis disciplines, including radio/satellite; networks; capacity and performance modelling; speech technology; packet-level analysis; programming; and Splunk architecture, administration, and machine learning solutions for companies including MCI, IBM, BP, Disney, and AMEX. James is also a private pilot and holds an Extra class amateur radio and FCC Radiotelephone license. You can reach him at LinkedIn at James H. Baxter.
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