How to enter:

1. Make a short 1-3 minute video about life as a SysAdmin and how you or a co-worker saved the day, or a time you went above and beyond the call of duty, for your organization or client.
2. Post the video on YouTube and make sure it is tagged correctly
3. YouTube Videos Accepted from Sept. 9-Oct. 26, 2008
4. Tag: SysadminContest2008
5. Send Splunk an email to: saoty@splunk.com with the subject line: Splunk SysAdmin Contest 2008 and include a link to your video, your name, company, address, phone, and email. Splunk will then post it on the SysAdmin of the Year site.
6. Encourage friends and co-workers to view the video on YouTube as the People's Choice Top 3 prizes will be awarded based on the number of YouTube views.
7. Winners Announced Nov. 9, 2008 @ LISA Conference.
8. Visit the SAOTY website for more information: http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com/

Prizes:

• Grand Prize: Fully Loaded Apple Laptop
• People's Choice (Top 3): Wii / XBox / PS3
• Free T-shirts to first 500 entries

About Splunk

Splunk is the IT Search company innovating 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 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 200,000 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 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.

For more information, please contact:

Steve Sommer
VP Marketing
Splunk, Inc.
415-848-8523
ssommer@splunk.com

Katie Watson
Voce Communications, Inc.
415-848-2589
kwatson@vocecomm.com




www.splunk.com]]> Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:01:10 +0800 /company/2604 Uncategorized

SAN FRANCISCO – September 3, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced that Godfrey Sullivan, former President and CEO of Hyperion Solutions- has agreed to join Splunk as President and CEO and will join the board of directors. Sullivan joined Hyperion Solutions in 2001 as president and COO and served as president and CEO from 2004 until its acquisition by Oracle in 2007.

“It’s an incredible time to add Godfrey to our team. Managing our growth is the biggest challenge we face and he has the experience to help us continue to scale quickly,“ said Michael Baum, co-founder of Splunk. Michael co-founded Splunk in 2004 and has been CEO since, growing the company to 150 employees and more than 750 customers worldwide. He will assume the role of Chief Corporate and Business Development Officer and will continue to serve on Splunk’s board of directors.

"Splunk has created a new software category called IT Search—effectively Google for the data center—with tremendous potential. I am truly excited to join Splunk and the talented team that created this disruptive technology and established Splunk as the market leader in IT Search," said Godfrey Sullivan.

"Godfrey Sullivan has a remarkable record of building value for customers that places him in elite company in the industry," added Nick Sturiale, board member of Splunk, Affiliated Partner of Sevin Rosen Funds and Managing Director at The Carlyle Group. "It is a great testament to the founders and employees of Splunk that we are able to attract somebody of Godfrey’s stature."

During Sullivan’s tenure at Hyperion, the company defined and led the enterprise performance management software category, doubled revenue to nearly $1 billion, was acquired for over $3 billion, and was recognized as one of the Fortune Top 100 places to work. Prior to Hyperion, Sullivan was CEO of Promptu Corp., and spent eight years at Autodesk in senior management positions. He recently joined the board of directors of Informatica, and is also on the board of Citrix Systems.

Splunk has been rapidly adopted by over 750 enterprises, service providers and government agencies around the world to improve IT operations, enhance security, achieve compliance, and provide valuable business intelligence. Sullivan’s extensive experience and deep understanding of the BI market is incredibly valuable as Splunk customers continue to mine logs and IT data for new forms of insight into customer, user and system activities.




About Splunk


Splunk is a Silicon Valley company innovating 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 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 fueled their offerings with IT Search. Partners such as BT, Cisco and Radware are driving new business with innovative products powered by Splunk. Download your own free copy today at www.splunk.com.

For more information, please contact:

Steve Sommer
VP Marketing
Splunk, Inc.
415-848-8523
ssommer@splunk.com

Janet Martin
Voce Communications, Inc.
415-848-2585
jmartin@vocecomm.com




www.splunk.com ]]> Wed, 3 Sep 2008 8:00:00 +0800 /company/2596 Uncategorized

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., August 5, 2008 –Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced Gala Coral Group has chosen Splunk as its enterprise-wide solution for Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. The integrated gaming group, which includes Gala Casinos, Gala Bingo, Coral and Eurobet, has also rolled out Splunk to integrate security, application and network availability and provide reporting for change management.

The PCI project builds on Gala Coral’s successful initial deployment of Splunk, which was already being used for secure central log collection and audit trail retention — key aspects of PCI. Gala Coral chose Splunk for PCI compliance because the solution cost-effectively indexes and can search massive amounts of IT log data from any source. 

Splunk is deployed across all of Gala Coral’s datacenters, indexing a wide range of data sources including Windows server logs, application logs, Top Layer, Check Point and CVS logs and metrics. Gala Coral has deployed Splunk for PCI Compliance and Splunk for Change Management — two applications for the Splunk IT Search platform. Splunk now addresses all of the IT data-related aspects of PCI compliance for Gala Coral, including: PCI control reporting, audit trail retention, secure remote access, daily log reviews, file integrity monitoring and secure central log collection. The Splunk PCI application offers over 55 reports, more than 90 saved searches, dashboards, and alerts.

"We selected Splunk above all other contenders to assist us in our PCI compliance initiative because of its ability to collate and report on any form of log file or data stream we require,” says Peter D. Bassill, CISSP, Group Information Security Officer, Gala Coral Group. “This gives us highly granular logging information and enables us to turn any data into a concise management report. The ability for a number of members of IT staff to have controlled access to the solution also frees up the core IT team’s time to focus on other issues, which is another real economic benefit for the Group.”

“The challenge of complying with the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) mandate is a difficult and moving target as PCI continues to evolve and IT infrastructure keeps changing.  Working with Gala Coral Group to slash operational costs, reduce the risk associated with its £1bn business, and achieve ongoing PCI compliance demonstrates the power of IT Search as the new weapon for datacenter management,” says Michael Baum, Co-founder and CEO of Splunk. “Splunk lets IT Operations, Security and Compliance teams across the enterprise more cost effectively manage complex, rapidly changing IT environments.”




About Gala Coral Group
The Gala Coral Group is the only UK operator to offer a full range of online and offline gambling opportunities in the UK – Coral, Gala Bingo clubs and Gala Casinos.  The Group employs over 19,000 people across its various trading divisions.

In addition, the Group has a growing international business which not only includes the online Eurobet brand, but also has a newly established land-based betting shop business in Italy.

The Group is proud to be the first gambling company to have received full GamCare accreditation across all its UK divisions.




About Splunk
Splunk is the IT Search company innovating 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 index it. It’s easy to download, install and use, and is very powerful. More than 700 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 200,000 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 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.

For more information, please contact:

Steve Sommer
VP Marketing
Splunk, Inc.
415-848-8523
ssommer@splunk.com

Katie Watson
Voce Communications, Inc.
415-848-2589
kwatson@vocecomm.com




www.splunk.com]]> Tue, 5 Aug 2008 8:00:00 +0800 /company/2569 Uncategorized

SAN FRANCISCO – July 9, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced results for the second quarter of 2008 ended June 30. The company hit its sales forecast for the quarter adding 94 new customers and upgrading 45 existing customer deployments to higher data indexing levels. The company ended the quarter with more than 750 enterprise, service provider and government agency customers.

The most active industries contributing to the quarter were online services, telecommunications, financials services, and government agencies. New customers include T-Systems (NASDAQ: TSYS), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), the U.S. Government Printing Agency, and ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK). "Our customers’ IT infrastructures have become incredibly complex, dynamic, service oriented, virtualized and mission critical," said Michael Baum Co-founder and CEO of Splunk. "IT operations, security and compliance expenses are climbing fast and existing approaches to IT management have failed them. IT Search is proving to be the weapon of choice in the modern data center. It’s scalable, versatile and invaluable with its ability to keep up with change."

The second quarter also saw the introduction of Splunk 3.3 and support for Windows WMI remote management instrumentation and Windows Registry. New Splunk Applications built on the Splunk IT Search platform also shipped including Splunk for Virtual Server Management, Splunk for Windows Server Management and Splunk for Change Management, which won the Best of Interop Award at Interop Las Vegas 2008.

Two seasoned software industry executives joined Splunk this past quarter. Phil Oreste joined as VP Finance & Operations; he was most recently CFO of Workstream and before that President & COO of Blue Titan Software. Steve Sommer joined as VP Marketing, after having held similar roles at SuccessFactors, ArcSight, Portal Software, and Informix. "These highly experienced additions to our management team will better enable us to manage the rapid growth we’re experiencing now that the IT Search product category has become a global, mainstream market," added Baum.


About Splunk

Splunk 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 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 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.

]]> Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:47:21 +0800 /company/2534 Uncategorized
SAN FRANCISCO – May 22, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company and ACIS i-Secure, the leading MSSP in Thailand, and UIH, the leading network provider in Thailand, announced today that i-Secure now offers a new managed security service called LMS (Log Management Service) powered by Splunk to their user base. New government policy in Thailand, the Computer Related Crime Act B.E. 2550, requires any company that deals with public data on the Internet to comply with specific regulations. To meet these requirements, i-Secure has built an application on Splunk, for delivery to their user base through their managed security services offerings. Splunk’s universal indexing capabilities give i-Secure’s customers the ability to collect, index and secure all IT data from any application, server or device, keeping it all within the boundaries of their own networks, making security and compliance easier.

"Through our collaboration with Splunk we are able to help our customers solve their compliance problems and improve their operations," said Pong Trakulthong, CEO, i-Secure. "i-Secure chose Splunk because they make it easy to quickly build a custom solution and solve problems with better overall value proposition and deployment flexibility than other alternatives. With our Splunk powered solution, our customers can comply with broad IT regulation requirements easily, and in less time."

The Splunk IT Search platform is the industry’s first integrated approach to keeping infrastructure available, secure and compliant. Splunk collects and manages logs, configurations, messages, traps, alerts and statistics from every IT component. That data is then available to any application for fast problem solving, threat response, compliance reporting or insight into user activity and transactions. The platform includes a common set of services and APIs making it easy for i-Secure to integrate Splunk with their own managed security services offerings.

"Splunk is easily adaptable to serve a multitude of datacenter needs, provide many options for building applications, and a great deal of opportunity for service providers, resellers and OEM partners worldwide," said Pervaiz Choudhry, director, Business Development. "We are pleased to enter Asia with i-Secure and UIH as a partner and expect our combined technologies and services will provide companies in Thailand with a powerful new compliance solution."

About UIH

United Information Highway Company Limited (UIH), A member of Benchachinda group provides High-speed Data Communication Services via leased optical fiber networks nationwide. Our customers include State Enterprises, and both public and private organizations, that require online data and multimedia communications that can be linked to their branches in greater Bangkok and the provinces. For further information, please go to www.uih.co.th

About i-Secure

ACIS i-Secure Co., Ltd provides security monitoring and information security management for government and private sectors. In response to Thai Cyber Crime’s Law, the service includes the following features:



• Provide consultation for setting up an effective system
• Computer Information Security monitoring
• Immediately alert administrators of any incidents
• Help in solving preliminary problems for urgent incidents
• Network monitoring and analysis
• LMS (Log Management Service) with 24 x 7 support
• Daily, Monthly or weekly threat report

For further information please go to www.i-secure.co.th

About Splunk

Splunk 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

]]> Fri, 23 May 2008 9:06:49 +0800 /company/2508 Uncategorized
CitrixSynergy, HOUSTON – May 20, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced the immediate availability of its first server virtualization management application, Splunk for Citrix XenServer Management which offers extended management capabilities for Citrix XenServer™. In the coming months, Splunk will release applications for each of the leading server virtualization platforms, built on the company’s IT Search platform.

Splunk brings powerful IT Search, indexing, alert and reporting to the challenges of troubleshooting server virtualization. IT Search delivers a comprehensive view of 100 percent of IT data – not only from the hypervisor and VM (virtual machine), but also from the server, guest OS, applications, and network. Splunk is the only approach that easily crosses tiers - both inside and outside of the VM - for a complete picture of the effect of server virtualization on the overall IT environment.

IT pros are excited about server virtualization, but know from the outset that things will break, causing performance and capacity issues when apps share the same physical host. And when they do break, IT needs to quickly troubleshoot and fix the problems. But existing tools - which struggle to keep up in a pre-virtualized environment - can’t handle the more dynamic and transient nature of virtualization. With multiple VMs sharing a pool of server, storage and network resources, changes to any one layer or VM could potentially affect others – and the applications they contain. Splunk’s ability to index data across every tier of the infrastructure in real-time makes it the only solution to alleviate the challenge of running a dynamic environment on finite resources with optimal results.

"Splunk just gets it," said Simon Crosby, CTO, Virtualization & Management, Citrix Systems. "XenServer customers have been asking for a way to correlate hypervisor data and metrics with everything else going on in the IT stack, including guest VMs and apps. Splunk has the smarts to put all the relevant logs, metrics and events together in the most intuitive way so you can really understand what’s happening all the way up the stack."

"Combining virtualization management metrics with the wealth of IT data Splunk already indexes helps companies realize the cost-savings they set out to achieve with an efficient and effective virtualized server environment," said Christina Noren, vice president, product management, Splunk. “Whether our customers are testing a new virtualization rollout or managing an existing infrastructure, Splunk puts the IT administrator back in control."

Splunk for Server Virtualization Management supports all management use cases throughout the virtualization lifecycle - virtualization planning, workload optimization, performance monitoring, root cause analysis and log management. Whether customers are testing a new virtualization rollout or managing an existing infrastructure, Splunk Apps provide a holistic view across virtualization platform metrics from guest operating systems and applications.

Product Pricing & Availability

Users can download a free 30-day trial of the Splunk for XenServer Management application www.splunkbase.com. Look for more Virtualization Management Apps from Splunk in the coming months.

About Splunk

Splunk 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 HYPERLINK "http://www.splunk.com" www.splunk.com.

Citrix® and Citrix XenServer™ are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. ]]> Mon, 19 May 2008 16:49:15 +0800 /company/2505 Uncategorized
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 Splunk

Splunk 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.

]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 16:27:14 +0800 /company/2501 Uncategorized
SAN FRANCISCO – May 13, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company, and BT announced today that BT will license Splunk to build a new managed security offering that will enable customers to preserve 100 percent of logs on the customer's network to satisfy data retention requirements for a wide range of compliance mandates. The new BT service augments BT Counterpane's existing security monitoring and response services for its global customers. With Splunk's universal indexing capabilities, BT Counterpane’s Managed Log Retention customers will be able to collect, index and secure all security data from any application, server or device, while keeping it within the boundaries of the customers' networks.

The BT Counterpane log management solution powered by Splunk will complement Managed Security Monitoring by enabling a fully-indexed, searchable repository of all log activity from any device on the network; provide customers better visibility and control through rich reports and dashboards; and enable thorough security response with real-time search. Customers who use BT Counterpane's new Managed Log Retention service will benefit from levels of performance, scalability, and TCO management impossible to achieve with rigid, legacy log management solutions.

This universal indexing capability is a radical departure from traditional log management approaches that provide limited support for analyzing new and changing data formats. BT chose Splunk because this flexibility is critical to stay ahead of continually evolving threats in highly dynamic environments, and for ongoing compliance with broad IT data retention requirements.

With the Splunk IT Search Platform, BT Managed Log Retention will offer customers worldwide unique benefits, including the following features and value:



• The industry’s first fully integrated approach to collect, secure and manage security events, logs, messages, traps, alerts, and statistics for comprehensive security and compliance.
• Confidence in full security and manageability via BT Counterpane’s existing best-of-breed device management infrastructure.
• Flexible pricing options for existing managed service customers and all new deployments.

"Thanks to this collaboration with Splunk, our customers will benefit from significantly enhanced security compliance capabilities," explained Toby Weir-Jones, vice president -- Product Strategy, BT Business Continuity, Security, and Governance Practice, North America. "The service enabled by the alliance of Splunk’s and BT’s technologies and experience will provide enterprises worldwide with a new and powerful security and compliance solution."

"This collaboration with BT is a unique relationship and an incredible opportunity to bring our combined technologies together, solving serious security management issues in data centers around the world," said Pervaiz Choudhry, director, Business Development, Splunk. "BT Group’s global presence as an integrated IT services company and Splunk’s IT Search technology leadership combine to deliver serious solutions to customers."

The Splunk IT Search platform is the industry’s first integrated approach to keeping infrastructure available, secure and compliant. Splunk collects and manages logs, configurations, messages, traps, alerts and statistics from every IT component. That data is then available to any application for fast problem solving, threat response, compliance reporting or insight into user activity and transactions. The platform includes a common set of services and APIs making it easy for BT to integrate Splunk with the BT Counterpane Sentry device to leverage vast amounts of IT data.

About BT

BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of local, national and international telecommunications services to our customers for use at home, at work and on the move; higher-value broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale.In the year ended 31 March 2007, BT Group plc’s revenue was £20,223 million with profit before taxation of £2,484 million. British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York. For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt

About Splunk

Splunk 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

]]> Tue, 13 May 2008 12:26:38 +0800 /company/2499 Uncategorized
INTEROP, LAS VEGAS – April 30, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced that it has won Best of Interop in the Network Management, Software and Services category. The Best of Interop Awards recognize exhibitors that have made significant technological advancements. The panel of judges, comprised of award-winning editors from InformationWeek, selected the Splunk Platform including Splunk 3.2 and the Splunk for Change Management application, based on evidence that the product is moving business technology forward. The Splunk Platform is unique within its segment, providing users with a common set of services and APIs that make it easy to create and integrate applications that leverage vast amounts of IT data.

"Splunk has always taken great pride in the enthusiasm that we receive from our user community," said Michael Baum, Splunk’s CEO and co-founder. "We’re honored to receive this recognition from InformationWeek’s esteemed judges. It’s great to have our peers in IT management be so excited about the unique contributions we’re making to the industry."

The Best of Interop Awards are always an indicator of the most innovative and exciting offerings in these product categories, and this year's winners are no exception," said Art Wittmann, Editor of InformationWeek. "Each of the category winners have truly demonstrated superior technology and innovation, and deserve recognition for their contributions to the industry."

Splunk for Change Management at Interop 2008

This week at Interop, Splunk announced the introduction of Splunk for Change Management, a new application built on the Splunk IT Search platform. Splunk for Change Management improves availability and security by continuously auditing all configurations and changes, detecting unauthorized changes, validating change deployment, and rapidly discovering service-impacting changes during of incident response – without the need for point solutions or redundant investments in software and storage.

Splunk for Windows at Microsoft Management Summit 2008

This week at MMS, Splunk announced the introduction of Splunk for Windows, an application that integrates Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager’s command-and-control view of a Windows infrastructure with Splunk’s IT Search. Splunk indexes all IT data generated by Windows servers and applications — event logs, registry keys, performance metrics and application log files. All the data is searchable from a single place to resolve service-impacting incidents faster, enhance monitoring coverage, and validate service levels. Freely downloadable from www.splunkbase.com, Splunk for Windows provides workflow integration with Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager 2007, and predefined alerts and reports to achieve rapid time-to-value for a Splunk deployment in Windows environments.

About Splunk

Splunk 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.

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:54:25 +0800 /company/2492 Uncategorized
INTEROP, LAS VEGAS – April 29, 2008 –Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced the introduction of Splunk for Change Management, a new application built on the Splunk IT Search platform. Splunk for Change Management improves availability and security by continuously auditing all configurations and changes, detecting unauthorized changes, validating change deployment, and rapidly discovering service-impacting changes during of incident response – without the need for point solutions or redundant investments in software and storage.

Splunk for Change Management lets organizations leverage Splunk’s powerful indexing, search, alerting and reporting capabilities across all IT data including configurations, change audit events, error logs and service desk tickets to proactively identify unauthorized changes and resolve incidents faster. Splunk leverages a single IT data platform for operations, security, compliance and business intelligence and is changing a market landscape formerly fragmented into hundreds of niche tool silos, and driving major increases in IT efficiency.

Despite a heightened awareness of the importance of change management, many companies continue to struggle with high levels of IT incidents. While there are multiple change detection tools available they are expensive, complicated systems that keep change management in a silo. They represent yet one more console in environments where there are already dozens of tools that don’t work together. This traditional approach is disconnected from incident response processes and cut off from other sources of IT data required to effectively manage change and understand system configuration and behavior.

"While there are multiple change detection tools available they’re expensive, complicated and keep change management in a silo. It’s just one more console in environments where there are already dozens of tools that don’t work together. This traditional approach is disconnected from incident response processes and cut off from other sources of IT data you need to effectively manage change and understand system configuration and behavior," said Harper Mann, senior product manager, availability applications, Splunk. "Splunk brings change audit events and configuration data together with activity and error logs so you can connect change with actual system and user behavior. And it does so cost-effectively because it leverages the existing Splunk platform and the IT data already indexed for operations, security and compliance".

Splunk for Change Management Features & Enhancements

Out-of-the-box dashboards with over 40 reports showing changes across all datacenter components including applications, servers and network devices. Predefined alerts that detect unauthorized change on the basis of configuration variances and correlation with service desk systems. Predefined searches to help identify service-impacting changes quickly Integration with service desk systems to close the loop on change management by validating the effect of change on system behavior.

Product Pricing & Availability

A 30-day free trial is available at: HYPERLINK "http://www.splunkbase.com/apps/All/Availability/app:Splunk+for+Change+Management" http://www.splunkbase.com/apps/All/Availability/app:Splunk+for+Change+Management

Pricing starts at $4,000 and requires a Splunk Enterprise license.

About Splunk

Splunk 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 HYPERLINK "http://www.splunk.com" www.splunk.com.

]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 8:28:25 +0800 /company/2490 Uncategorized
SAN FRANCISCO – April 29, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced Splunk for Windows, an application that integrates Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager’s command-and-control view of a Windows infrastructure with Splunk’s IT Search. Splunk indexes all IT data generated by Windows servers and applications — event logs, registry keys, performance metrics and application log files. All the data is searchable from a single place to resolve service-impacting incidents faster, enhance monitoring coverage, and validate service levels. Freely downloadable from www.splunkbase.com, Splunk for Windows provides workflow integration with Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager 2007, and predefined alerts and reports to achieve rapid time-to-value for a Splunk deployment in Windows environments.

Splunk searches can be launched through Tasks in the System Center Operations Manager Console on any aspect of the infrastructure being monitored, and can be expanded to include far-flung elements of the IT infrastructure for additional context – regardless of platform or technology. Now Splunk users can quickly and easily identify information across the Windows Event Log, the Windows Registry, and application log files from every server in the environment to troubleshoot difficult problems without struggling to maintain historical data.

Reports and dashboards included in the Splunk for Windows application provide a birds-eye view of service levels and problems across large numbers of Windows servers and applications. The predefined alerts leverage the full view of all of the IT data to warn of cross-component problems, Alerts are sent via email or RSS, or forwarded to the System Center Operations Manager console.

"Splunk is an entirely platform-agnostic high-speed indexing technology," said Mark Bagley, Senior Product Manager for Enterprise, Splunk. "Splunk for Windows delivers a high-fidelity IT data solution for Windows unlike anything previously available, breaking through silos and identifying root cause almost immediately."

Splunk for Windows follows the successful launch of the Splunk Platform and Splunk 3.2, which makes possible the development of integrated operations, security and compliance applications using a single, common data collection. Splunk 3.2 introduced support to natively run Splunk indexing and search on Windows.

Splunk for Windows is free and available now at www.splunkbase.com

About Splunk

Splunk 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.

]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 8:06:46 +0800 /company/2489 Uncategorized
SAN FRANCISCO – April 8, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced results for the first quarter of 2008 ending March 31. The company hit its sales forecast for the quarter even as IT budgets get squeezed in an uncertain economic environment. The company ended the quarter with more than 600 enterprise, service provider and government agency customers.

The most active industries contributing to the quarter were online services, telecommunications, financial services, and government agencies. New customers include MySpace, Verizon, Bloomberg and the National Geospatial Agency.

"The challenge of understanding what's happening in increasingly complex datacenters is evident, especially in the current economic climate. The need to do more with less is driving demand for disruptive new approaches like Splunk," said Michael Baum, Splunk’s CEO and co-founder. "New technologies like virtualization, unprecedented compliance scrutiny and pressure to become more power efficient are forcing our customers to adopt a better way of managing their infrastructures."

The first quarter also saw the introduction of the Splunk Platform and developer APIs enabling customers and partners to create their own IT data applications, easily distribute their applications, and download applications created by anyone in the Splunk ecosystem. Splunk also released its own PCI Application providing enterprises the ability to easily and cost effectively comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

About Splunk

Splunk 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 150,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time, and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Download your own free copy today at www.splunk.com

]]> Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:37:00 +0800 http://www.splunk.com/company/2482 Uncategorized
SAN FRANCISCO – March 3, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today launched the Splunk Platform, and a Splunk for PCI Compliance application built on the platform. The Splunk Platform includes a common set of services and APIs making it easy for users, partners and developers to create and integrate applications that leverage vast amounts of IT data. Release of the platform coincides with the general availability release of Splunk 3.2, including Splunk for Windows.

The Splunk Platform is the industry’s first integrated approach to keeping infrastructure available, secure and compliant. Splunk collects and manages logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, and statistics from every IT component making the data available to any application for fast problem solving, threat response, compliance reporting or insight into user activity and transactions. Splunk customers can create their own applications on the platform, easily distribute their applications and download applications created by anyone in the Splunk ecosystem.

"The sheer magnitude and dynamic nature of machine generated data is overwhelming, forcing IT functions to be managed as individual silos with their own independent processes, tools and domain knowledge", said Michael Baum, Splunk’s CEO and co-founder. "While people initially start using Splunk for a specific application – like troubleshooting problems, enhancing security monitoring, or compliance log management – as they index more data it becomes valuable for a number of applications across operations, security and compliance silos."

"The notion of what defines a management application is changing," said Jasmine Noel, principal research analyst with Ptak Noel and Associates. "As more IT organizations focus on processes and tasks, they start thinking about how IT information can support and interact with management applications. Like Salesforce.com, which started as a singular CRM application and evolved into a platform for applications centered on customer information, Splunk is evolving from an IT Search tool into a platform for applications that center around IT information."

The Splunk Platform has already been successful with OEMs and systems integrators unlocking new business opportunities, shortening development cycles and speeding time to market. Partners have both bundled and embedded Splunk with their own hardware, software and services.

"The integration with Splunk exceeded every expectation I had," said Michelle Dickman, CEO, TriGeo Network Security. "With Splunk, we released a new capability in less than 90 days that would have otherwise taken us at least 18 months. That’s money in the bank." And network automation software leaders Netcordia had a similar experience. "With Splunk, we delivered functionality beyond our wildest expectations, and got to market twice as fast," said Jay Ennis, executive vice president, Product Development, Netcordia.

Splunk for PCI Compliance

The first Splunk-built application on the platform is Splunk for PCI Compliance. Available for download from SplunkBase (www.splunkbase.com), the application provides 125 searches, reports and alerts to satisfy PCI requirements such as secure remote access, file integrity monitoring, secure log collection, daily log review, audit trail retention, and PCI control reporting. Splunk for PCI makes it simple and fast to comply, answer auditor questions, and control access to your sensitive data.

Splunk 3.2 - New IT Search Platform Capabilities

Splunk 3.2 introduces new features for all platforms. Transaction search and interactive field extraction empower end users with new and easier ways to generate their own applications, and extend the platform's capabilities with filesystem change monitoring, flexible roles, data signing and audit trails. A new REST API and SDKs for .Net and Python open the platform for developers. And Splunk 3.2 brings IT Search to Windows for the first time, on the same single code base that runs on Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris, FreeBSD and AIX.

About Splunk

Splunk 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 500 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 150,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time, and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Download your own free copy today at www.splunk.com.

]]> Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:46:27 +0800 /company/2470 Uncategorized
SAN FRANCISCO – January 15, 2007 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2007. The company beat its sales forecast for the quarter by 35 percent and achieved 133 percent of its forecast for the fiscal year. Splunk ended the year with more than 500 enterprise, service provider and government agency customers.

During the quarter, Splunk added more than 100 new customers and upgraded 40 customers to higher data indexing levels. The three most active industries contributing to the quarter were financial services, online services, telecommunications and government agencies. New customers include Bear Stearns & Company Inc., Orbitz, AT&T Wireless and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Splunk’s partner ecosystem continues to account for a growing percentage of the company’s business. More than 25 percent of fourth quarter sales were through OEM, system integrator and resale partners. New partners added during the quarter include Radware, Voltage and Penguin Computing.

The fourth quarter also saw the introduction of the Splunk Preview release program giving customers early access to product features and functionality. The goal of the program is to provide an early view of new product and encourage user participation in the product development process. The first two releases included transaction search and change identification, as well as the preview of Splunk for Microsoft Windows. Splunk 3.1 also became available in the fourth quarter.

Major product milestones in 2007 included Splunk 3.0 and Splunk for AIX, both made available for general download in the third quarter. Delivered only 15 months after the last major version, Splunk 3.0 takes IT Search beyond the scope of log management and troubleshooting with interactive reporting of search results, dashboards and personalization, as well as an expanded search language with new statistical and arithmetic operators. Splunk for AIX allows customers running mission critical AIX applications to dig into everything happening at every layer of their AIX systems from one place with Splunk.

"Until now, it made sense to manage data centers in silos - break it down into manageable pieces, get the right point tool for the right job and move through distinct operational areas," said Michael Baum, Splunk’s CEO and co-founder. "But tremendous amounts of data, complex web applications, and virtualization have broken out of the silos, are crashing into compliance and security issues, rendering point tools limited or useless, and merging operational and business considerations that previously stood alone. To solve these problems customers need the ability to integrate any IT data from all their applications, servers and network devices into a broader view -- not just to make sense of the data, but transform it into valuable information assets."

About Splunk

Splunk 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 500 enterprises, service providers and government organizations more than 150,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time, and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Download your own free copy at www.splunk.com.

]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 9:59:04 +0800 /company/2156 Uncategorized
DALLAS – November 14, 2007 – Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine, along with other industry leaders and co-sponsors SourceForge.net, Digg, NaSPA (the Network and Systems Professionals Association), LOPSA (the League of Professional System Administrators), and USENIX/SAGE, today announced that Matt Timken of the Alaska Department of Public Safety