Splunk and Systex Sign Strategic Partnership with Major Resource Investment
Agreement Includes Extensive Asian Distribution Coverage, Establishment of Splunk Lab at Systex, Local Support and Education
SAN FRANCISCO and TAIPEI — October 6, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company, and Systex <TSE:6214>, a Taiwan-based leading regional IT service provider, today announced a strategic pan-Asia partnership. The agreement covers master distributor rights across 8 Asian countries, the establishment of Splunk Lab in Systex with over 200 engineering and technical resources, development of applications based on Splunk, and dedicated sales, marketing and support people throughout the region focused on building Splunk's Asian business.
This agreement provides Splunk with extensive market coverage—Systex has nearly 50 offices in 8 countries including Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Systex, in partnership with Splunk, is establishing a world-class Splunk lab in Taiwan to collaborate closely with Splunk's headquarters team to localize Splunk products and develop a broad set of applications based on Splunk's IT search platform. The lab will leverage Systex’ extensive domain expertise in industries such as financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, education and government as well as Systex competencies in IT operations, security, and business intelligence. The Taiwan-based Splunk Lab will also be certified to provide localized training and Tier 1 & Tier 2 technical support to Splunk customers and partners.
"Splunk has created a new product category — IT Search--that every data center should be using, and that is why we are making such a strategic investment of our resources into the Systex-Splunk partnership," said Hilo Chen, CEO & President of Systex. "There is great synergy and business opportunity in this strategic partnership. Splunk's IT search technology highly complements Systex's core competence. We will mobilize our sales, marketing and support forces in the region to make this partnership successful," said Frank Lin, COO of Systex.
Godfrey R. Sullivan, CEO of Splunk, also echoed the strategic nature of the relationship, "It's rare to find a partner with such impressive capabilities and deep expertise working with customers to manage complex IT infrastructures." Added Robert Lau, Vice President of Asia Pacific, "Demand for Splunk in Asia is strong and we are extremely excited to have found a partner that is so well aligned with Splunk and able to dramatically accelerate our penetration of the Asian market."
Systex is a Taiwan-based leading regional IT service provider with over 2,900 employees and 10,000 customers. Systex is developing international markets as it aims to become one of the top 5 IT service providers in Asia Pacific in 3 years. Systex possesses extensive domain knowledge of various vertical industries, which helps to deliver innovative applications of IT strategies, thereby giving customers a competitive edge with world-class project management capabilities and rich IT infrastructure implementation expertise. Systex provides 13 solution categories, including storage management, IT system administration, IT security, database and business intelligence, portal and collaboration, application server, consulting services, outsourcing, training, telecom and digital media. Systex is also a value added distributor and reseller for world-class solutions including AirDefense, BMC Software, CA, Check Point, Cisco, EMC, HP Software, IBM, McAfee, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, Sun, Symantec, Websense, and others.
About Splunk
Splunk is the IT Search company innovating large-scale, high-speed indexing 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 index it. It's easy to download, install and use, and is very powerful. More than 750 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 250,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time, and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Over 50 OEM, System Integrator, Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners have fuelled their offerings with IT Search. Partners such as BT, Cisco, Radware and Trigeo are driving new business with innovative products powered by Splunk. Download your own free copy today at http://www.splunk.com/download.
For more information, please contact:
Irene Li
Public Relations Director
Corporate Communication Division
Systex Corporation
886-2-7720-1888 ext 1123
ireneli@systex.com.tw
Joe Fitzpatrick
Director of Marketing Communications
Splunk, Inc.
1-415-848-8553
jfitzpatrick@splunk.com
Katie Watson
Voce Communications
1-415-848-2589
kwatson@vocecomm.com