(2) Research finds that business and consumer attitudes towards data use have shifted during the course of the pandemic Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the Data-to-Everything Platform, announced new research in collaboration with Censuswide into European business and consumer attitudes towards data during the pandemic. Key findings show that businesses have been spurred on to embrace the Data Age while consumers have become more cautious, with raised expectations about how their data is handled: The majority of businesses believe COVID has accelerated the use of data in operations Confidence in IT infrastructure resilience has fallen sharply Consumers continue to raise their expectations for how businesses handle their data