Case Study: NBCUniversal achieves 24x faster Splunk indexing and 80% TCO savings with Diamanti

NBCUniversal Accelerates Insights with Diamanti and Splunk

NBCUniversal, a global media and entertainment company, needed better visibility into its software development and operations. They were using Splunk for DevOps insights but hit architectural limits—only able to ingest about 1 TB/day—which created a large backlog and prevented real-time action, so NBCUniversal turned to Diamanti for a more scalable platform.

Diamanti deployed a 32-node bare-metal cluster (200 TB usable) to run Splunk, removing hypervisors to deliver up to 1,000,000 IOPS per node and much higher per-node performance. The Diamanti solution produced 24x faster indexing, enabled indexing rates of more than 1 TB per hour with 16 indexers, and delivered roughly 80% TCO savings, allowing NBCUniversal to eliminate the backlog, consolidate infrastructure, and accelerate real-time insights.

NBCUniversal

Ramana Mantravadi

SVP and CTO