Splunk IT Search Named Most Innovative Enterprise Software Solution by SoftwareCEO
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 19, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced it has won SoftwareCEO’s Most Innovative Enterprise Software Award. SoftwareCEO’s annual Software Innovation Awards recognize the industry’s efforts and accomplishments in bringing innovative software products and new business models to market. Judges look for technological and business model breakthroughs that deliver innovations in software and content delivery.
"Splunk’s goal is to provide customers with IT Search resources that make sense of increasingly complex IT operations - simply and with fast gains in production environments," said Michael Baum, Splunk’s CEO and co-founder. "The Most Innovative Enterprise Software is a special honor for Splunk because it validates our efforts to make the IT management easier by turning the top-down model on its head, putting the person who has to solve the program right in the middle of a very broad value proposition across application areas from availability and security, to compliance and business intelligence."
"This year’s SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards competition featured more than 90 entries, a record number," said David Sommer, chief operating officer, CompTIA, and publisher of SoftwareCEO. "That’s testament to the creativity and vibrancy of the software market, which continues to produce products and services that deliver real business value to customers. By winning a SoftwareCEO Software Innovation award, Splunk has demonstrated it is at the forefront of innovation. On behalf of the worldwide membership of CompTIA and SoftwareCEO, I am pleased to recognize their achievement."
About SplunkSplunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. The company’s freely downloadable software indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics. If a machine can generate it -- Splunk can eat it. It’s easy to download, install and use, and is very powerful. More than 600 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 175,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time, and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Splunk’s partner ecosystem is growing fast too. Over 50 OEM, System Integrator, Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners have fueled their offerings with IT Search. Partners like British Telecom, IronPort, Netcordia, Proofpoint, Radware, Trigeo, Uptime Software and Voltage Security are driving new business with innovative products powered by Splunk. Download your own free copy today at www.splunk.com.