Michael Baum Interview for Best of Interop
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Tech TV interviews Michael Baum, CEO of Splunk for Best of Interop Award
This from the Best of Interop Website (http://www.bestofinterop.com/winners/)
Network Management, Software and Services
Winner: Splunk - The Splunk Platform (including Splunk 3.2 and Splunk for Windows)
Judges: Nick Hoover, Bruce Boardman - Syracuse University
Traditionally, network management is done in silos. Disparate software handles different systems. With that in mind, four-year-old Splunk has taken on the task of unifying management by introducing the concept of search to IT management.
The Splunk Platform collects logs, configurations, messages, alerts and stats from any software or hardware that makes information about itself available, and then allows admins to search that information, build custom reports and create alerts based on the results of continuous indexing.
That idea has proved incredibly popular. More than 150,000 copies of Splunk's free version alone have been downloaded. Companies like Netcordia, WildPackets and Radware are all packaging additional capabilities into Splunk. The system can also feed scripts into systems like IBM Tivoli.
Splunk, a Web app that looks and feels like a user friendly Web 2.0 site complete with quick-loading AJAX results and Flash-based graphs and charts, comes with a large number of canned searches right out of the box, and can access pretty much anything with a system log. That means it can search for everything from CPU usage to 503 errors and run custom reports on such obscure things as average CPU usage by user command.
In March, Splunk launched a new version, Splunk 3.2, and announced the Splunk Platform, a common set of services, APIs and SDKs to allow third parties to create their own applications to run on Splunk. Splunk's own new Splunk for PCI compliance is the first of those, and provides 125 canned searches, reports and alerts for auditing and compliance. Splunk 3.2 includes new search features and now makes Splunk available on Windows, adding to its availability on Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX and Linux.
