Data reduction drives Siemens 95% cut in data volume [Video]

A slew of innovations in data management tooling, data infrastructure and artificial intelligence dotted the landscape at AWS re:Invent 2024. Siemens Digital Industries Software, in particular, has tapped Cribl Inc.’s data reduction and operational visibility expertise to adapt to the expanding demands of its data management and security operations.

“It’s about the data reduction that we now have visibility into our environment like we never had before,” said Scott Schwartz (pictured, left), senior cloud infrastructure engineer at Siemens. “We didn’t have the licensing capacity for our Splunk environment to ingest all the different logs that we were interested in, but Security Lake allowed us to start collecting those. Cribl allowed us to reduce a lot of the data, eliminate fields that weren’t important to us and do some summarization on it. As a result, we were able to do a 90-95% reduction of the data.”

Schwartz and Pedro Borges(right), senior security engineer at Siemens, spoke with …