LOOKING TO DRIVE
MORE VALUE FROMYOUR SPLUNKINVESTMENT...

LET’S GO…AND THRIVE IN
THE DATA AGE?

IS IT TIME YOU MIGRATESPLUNK TO AWS?
WHY THIS? WHY NOW?
Ambitious organisations likeyours are increasingly looking
to make the most of theirever-growing amounts of data,
wherever it originates from
– 5G, AI, Machine Learning,Cloud, Edge Computing, Virtual
Reality, Blockchain and more.
At Computacenter, we believe
one excellent way to achieve
this would be to deploy Splunk
as your cloud solution –including scaling Splunk tothe next level by migrating
to Amazon Web Services.

SPLUNK PARTNER STATUS
ELITE
DEDICATED SPLUNK CONSULTANTS
60+ EUROPE

Take Computacenter’s ability to offeradvice, consultancy and implementation
to bring together IT solutions thatdeliver positive business outcomes

SPLUNK CERTIFICATES AND ACCREDITATIONSMANY 100s
AWS CREDENTIALSADVANCED CONSULTING PARTNER

Add the deep understanding, skills andcapabilities that exist within our Splunk
Center of Excellence, which means
wherever you are on your Splunk journey,
Computacenter can help you do more

Benefit from migrating Splunk to AWS
to improve scale, provide operational
efficiencies and make data your businessenabler for the Data Age

DEDICATED AWS CONSULTANTS
25+ | Cloud infrastructure, provisioningand management
AWS PROGRAMMESAWS Marketplace Skilled
Consulting Partner
WHAT THE ANALYSTS HAVE TO SAY
Enabling a step change in IT delivery
with a colocation partner

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WHY MIGRATING SPLUNKTO AWS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA
IN A NUTSHELL
Drive greater value, more scale, improved performance and better use-cases from your investment in Splunk.
A ONE-STOP-SHOP
SOLUTION
Computacenter will help
with ALL aspects of yourSplunk migration andimplementation…

WHEREVER YOU ARE ON
YOUR SPLUNK JOURNEY…whether you alreadyhave Splunk, or you’relooking to deploy a new,fully optimised Splunk
solution.

CURRENT STATE ANALYSIS
It all starts withunderstanding where you
are now, so we can help
you architect the best
Splunk solution…

DRIVE OUT GREATER VALUE…so your organisation
can make more of yourinvestment in Splunk,particularly when being
asked to do more withfewer resources.

ADDITIONAL SCALE
Migrating Splunk toAWS will introduce you
to a world of new
operational possibilities.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Computacenter willcontinue to support therun service with continual
Splunk optimisation.

PAYMENT OPTIONS
We’ll help you construct
the best commercial
package for software,
including constructing
private offers via AWS
Marketplace.

COMMERCIAL EXPERTISE
We’re well positionedto broker the mostadvantageouscommercial deal to suit
your particular needs.

GREATER FUNCTIONALITY
You’ll be able to takefull advantage of thepre-built AWS businessapplications.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS
We can supply thenecessary Splunk and AWS
skills your organisation
may not have.

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WHEREVER YOU ARE ON YOUR SPLUNKJOURNEY, WE’LL HELP YOU DO MORE
Deploying Splunk to AWS
addresses many businesschallenges to deliver
positive outcomes.

TECHNICALOPERATIONALSTRATEGICWOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO GET EVEN MORE FROM YOUR SPLUNKDEPLOYMENT AND THRIVE IN THE DATA AGE?
Computacenter can help you acquire:

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• More storage for ingested data,
creating greater scope for increased
usage of Splunk – more searches
and more users.
• Additional focus on improving andadding to use-cases which provide
more accuracy and insight.
• Access to specialist skills to support
additional use-case development
and optimise existing operationalprocesses.

• The external support your in-houseteams need to concentrate onstrategic projects.
• A more robust security position
with Splunk SIEM - identify andremediate issues quicker, reduceinvestigations to minutes, automate
reporting and simplify compliance.

OPTIMISEDDELIVERY, IMPROVEDPERFORMANCE,EXTENDED SCALEAND USAGECOMPUTACENTER – ALIGNING
THE POWER OF SPLUNK AND AWS
HOW WE MAKE IT WORK
We have an enviable track record in bringing together the world’s best technology
providers to deliver positive business outcomes for Computacenter customers.

“We already use Splunk,
but would like to do more”“We’re looking to deploy a new,fully optimised Splunk solution”“We already use AWS”
“We’d like to migrate Splunk to AWS”

ADVISORY

TRANSFORMATIONOPTIMISATION

Computacenter will advise and guide
your organisation through every
step of your Splunk journey, fromspecification, procurement, usecase development, data generation,security, cost optimisation and more.

Our Center of Excellence will help provide
access to a wide range of Splunk skills
and professional services to help youwith technical design and integration,
data processing, migration planning anddesign, use-case design and review.

We’ll continually help you drive thebest value from Splunk – includingback office support and maintenanceof on-premise implementations,on-boarding, ongoing tuning, security
use-cases and bespoke reports.

PLAN – we’ll help you develop astrategy for AWS and fully implement
our recommendations to meetyour requirements.

APPLY – we bring best practices
to AWS operations to meet yourrequirements – control, scalability,optimisation and cost control.

SCALE – we help you scale thebenefits of AWS across yourorganisation using our migration
factory – a completely governed
process to transform workloads.

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FIND OUT MORECOMPUTACENTER PROFESSIONALSERVICES OVERVIEWA ONE-STOP-SHOP FOR MIGRATING AND BUILDING SPLUNK IN AWS
Computacenter’s extensive end-to-end Professional Services will help your organisation wherever you are on your Splunk journey –whether you’re looking to deploy Splunk for the first time or migrating to AWS.

SOURCE

TRANSFORM

MANAGE

Splunk license procurement
direct resell, financing
options or using Splunk Cloud

Assessment of Splunklicensing models tofit business needs

Procurement of AWS
compute and modellingof AWS pricing options

Help to move toa consumptionbased model
Find out more

Design and architectingof Splunk solutions
within AWS

Migration andtransformation– moving Splunk to AWSor supporting the moveto Splunk Cloud

Consultancy andbusiness case benefits
assessment of moving
to Splunk Cloud or Splunk
Enterprise on AWS

Optimise and enhance
Splunk performanceby migrating toSplunk Cloud

Managing updatesof Splunk version
release within AWS

Customer facing
onsite support
and project work to help
with management ofSplunk instances

Supply of Splunk/
AWS skills
including those yourorganisation may not
have, or have access toOptimisation, use-case development and back office remote supportof existing Splunk deployments within AWSWHAT THE ANALYSTSHAVE TO SAY
ENABLING A STEP CHANGE IN IT DELIVERYWITH A COLOCATION PARTNER“There is a growing trend whereorganisations want to be incomplete control of data, businesslogic and their IP but want tooutsource day-to-day operations,management and maintenance totechnology providers so they caneliminate management overheads
and resiliency risks whilst at thesame time leverage the best-ofbreed features.”
IDC Spotlight 2021, ‘SECURITY AND DATAWORKLOAD TRANSFORMATION: RUNNING SPLUNKWORKLOADS IN AWS WITH COMPUTACENTER’sponsored by Computacenter

41% of companies are currently
using or planning to use cloud forSOC, SVM and SIEM functions.
IDC European IT Security Survey, June 2020

“The role of a technology partnersuch as Computacenter – withdedicated engineering and skilled
resources as well as long-term
partnership with Splunk and AWS –can go a long way in de-risking theSplunk cloud migration journey.”
IDC Spotlight 2021, ‘SECURITY AND DATAWORKLOAD TRANSFORMATION: RUNNING SPLUNKWORKLOADS IN AWS WITH COMPUTACENTER’sponsored by Computacenter

LET’S TALK
To find out more about how Computacenter can help your organisationbuild or migrate Splunk to AWS to improve scale, realise cost-efficienciesand deliver a more stable and resilient Splunk platform, please contact:
Computacenter

SecurityEnquiries@computacenter.com+44 (0) 7834 650 509

SplunkContact Splunk:https://www.splunk.com/de_de/talk-tosales.html?expertCode=sales

AWS

Contact AWS:
https://aws.amazon.com/de/contact-us/

About Computacenter
Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public
sector organisations. We help our customers to source, transform and manage their IT infrastructure todeliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. Computacenter is a public company
quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employs over 16,000 people worldwide.
www.computacenter.com

WHY AWSMARKETPLACE ANDCOMPUTACENTER
FIND, BUY AND CONSUME SPLUNK ON DEMANDAWS Marketplace transforms the way organisations approach
software discovery, procurement, entitlement, provisioning,and governance, streamlining the traditional supply chain
and enabling digital transformation.
Organisations are looking for simplification and innovation in
the way they procure software. They want to buy more relevant
software from fewer providers or places. They want advice asto how to migrate software, know what can be moved andwhat can’t, control user access on the cloud and manage it.
Importantly they’re looking to simplify and streamline
purchasing, licensing and invoicing – which includes
a shift to subscriptions and SaaS.

WORKING WITH COMPUTACENTERCATALOGUED, CURATED AND EVER-EVOLVING

Computacenter will support you, througha governed route, to procure and source
the right technology, at the right time,at the right price. We will help you selectand deploy fit-for-purpose software andonline services that help you reduce costand complexity, mitigate risk and achieve
your business objectives.

An extensive range of software across
a comprehensive range of categories,
in an ever-growing catalogue.

RAPID PROCUREMENT
The software you need when you need it.
With Computacenter, customers can use
AWS Marketplace to increase development
speed and efficiency by reducing friction in
the software supply chain and decreasing
costs of time-consuming acquisition
processes, enabling faster innovation.

FLEXIBLE PAYMENT MODELSAWS Marketplace gives you the ability
to test software, negotiate customer
terms and variable consumption modelsso you never pay for more than you use.
You’re also able to reduce costs withlong-term commitments and consolidate
billing into one invoice.

COMPUTACENTER SCOPE SERVICESADVISORY SERVICES

Assessments and recommendations

TRANSFORMATION SERVICES
Implementation and migration

SPLUNK ASSESSMENT SERVICES
Gain insight and guidance to support Splunk investment, Splunk
optimisation options, Technical PoVs and PoCs, and deployment options.
HEALTH CHECK OF EXISTING ON-PREM AND SPLUNK CLOUD DEPLOYMENTUnderstand how to improve your existing deployment, be it in the cloudor on-premise. We can help improve data management, use-case
deployment and application performance.
COMPUTACENTER SECURITY USE-CASE FABRIC (700+ USE-CASES)
Easy access to out of the box, predefined best in class use-cases
to enhance your Splunk deployment.

OPTIMISATION SERVICES

In-life improvement and operationsAWS STRATEGY AND VISION
Create a solid foundation and increased likelihood of realising thebenefits and return on investment through the development of a clear,actionable strategy for cloud adoption.
APPLICATION MIGRATION ASSESSMENT
We use technical discovery and analysis, business and financial
impact assessments, plus custom algorithms and automation.
In this way we can produce a recommendation and business casethat supports one of six target state options: Retire, Retain, Rehost,
Re-Platform, Re-Purchase or Re-Architect.

COMPUTACENTER SCOPE SERVICESADVISORY SERVICES

Assessments and recommendations

TRANSFORMATION SERVICES
Implementation and migration

SPLUNK DESIGN AND DEPLOYMENTOur Center of Excellence will provide expertise covering all aspects ofa Splunk deployment: data generation, collection and pre-processing,process design and review, and Splunk technical design and integration.
BUSINESS USE-CASES DEVELOPMENT
Access to leading Splunk skills to design bespoke use-cases covering
security, GRC and compliance, predictive maintenance, ITOA andbusiness analytics.
ON-PREM VS CLOUD ASSESSMENT
Splunk Enterprise on AWS vs Splunk Cloud assessment covering initialrequirement analysis (business, regulatory, policies), design, operating
model proof of concept, and commercial and licensing optimisation.

OPTIMISATION SERVICES

In-life improvement and operations

AWS MIGRATION
Using the three phases of Detailed Discovery, Migration Planningand Delivery, our capabilities build on our vast experience ofundertaking complex migrations. We focus on reducing the riskby leveraging automated application deployment into landingzones with comprehensive functional testing before cutover andhandover into BAU.
AWS LANDING ZONE
Creation of an initial landing zone for each application, alignedto the pillars of the well architected framework. The architecturaldesign and automated deployment scripts are aligned to thecustomer requirements and strategic objectives.

COMPUTACENTER SCOPE SERVICESADVISORY SERVICESAssessments and recommendations

TRANSFORMATION SERVICES
Implementation and migration

CUSTOMER FACING / ON SITE SUPPORTOur site-based consultants can provide support to cover on-boarding
planning and preparation, quality assurance, onsite implementation
and use-case tuning.
SPLUNK OPTIMISATION SERVICES
Working remotely from our Splunk Center of Excellence, our skilled staff
will undertake Splunk optimisation activities such as programming ofparsers, searches and dashboards, and will support with the developmentof SOPs and playbooks. They will help to build log-source guides andsecurity use-cases, and will support the creation of new custom-madedashboards, reporting and alarms. We can also undertake best practices
sharing workload optimisation and health-check assessments.

OPTIMISATION SERVICES

In-life improvement and operations

AWS COST OPTIMISATIONThis service provides consulting advice on the best commercial strategy
to address immediate and future consumption requirements of AWS.
The service can be delivered as a one-off or a recurring engagement
to maintain commercial health.
AWS WELL ARCHITECTED REVIEW
Computacenter is one of a select number of partners able to offer
the AWS Well Architected Review. We facilitate a workshop to review
the architectural pillars of operational excellence, security, reliability,performance efficiency and cost optimisation. We then produce arecommendations report providing options to implement.

WHEREVER YOU ARE ON YOUR SPLUNKJOURNEY, WE’LL HELP YOU DO MORE
Deploying Splunk to AWS
addresses many businesschallenges to deliver
positive outcomes.

TECHNICALOPERATIONALSTRATEGICWOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO HAVE THE TIME, SKILLS AND BUDGETTO GET THE MOST FROM SPLUNK ON YOUR OWN?
Computacenter can help you acquire:• Access to skilled Splunk resources
to help with the assessment ofSplunk performance and current
state design, including looking atoptions for greater efficiency andperformance.
• Assistance with business case design
to support migration to AWS.
• The insight to investigate, monitor,
analyse and act on all of your data
in real-time, no matter which kind,size or source this data comes from.

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• Help with planning, designing andmanaging cloud migration.
• The Splunk Security Operations Suitecombines industry-leading data,
analytics and operations solutions
to modernise and optimise yourcyber defences for the data age.
• Access to over 70 pre-built
Computacenter use-cases that canbe easily implemented to provide
better security insight.

OPTIMISEDDELIVERY, IMPROVEDPERFORMANCE,EXTENDED SCALEAND USAGE

WHEREVER YOU ARE ON YOUR SPLUNKJOURNEY, WE’LL HELP YOU DO MORE
Deploying Splunk to AWS
addresses many businesschallenges to deliver
positive outcomes.

TECHNICALOPERATIONALSTRATEGICDO YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO SCALE SPLUNK TO OPERATEACROSS MORE OF THE BUSINESS WITHOUT HELP?
Computacenter can help you to:• Understand how Splunk, run inAWS, can support the broader
innovation agenda and digitaltransformation strategy.
• Understand how to take your datafrom being just a business facilitatorand business asset to a primarybusiness driver.
• Develop a compelling business caseto migrate Splunk to AWS.

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• Visualise what Splunk could deliver
as part of a Cloud-First Strategy.
• Understand how to drive longer
term value from Splunk in AWS.
• Scale Splunk to operate across moreof the business to provide better
insight and analysis.
• Strengthen your cyber defences
across on-premises and multicloud with Splunk as your go-to
security choice.

OPTIMISEDDELIVERY, IMPROVEDPERFORMANCE,EXTENDED SCALEAND USAGE