Splunk Top News Items http://www.splunk.com/index.php Top news items from splunk.com Sun, 22 Nov 2009 2:19:43 +0800 http://xaraya.org/ en 2006 Splunk Splunk 4 Free SAN FRANCISCO – October 27, 2009 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced availability of the free version of Splunk 4. Splunk 4 re-defined the speed of previous releases with 10x faster search and 2x faster indexing. Splunk Free brings the power of Splunk 4 to personal users, providing the ability to search, visualize and report on practically any machine-generated data – speeding problem resolution, incident investigations, and IT analytics. Today's announcement enables anyone to download Splunk for free, and also includes a 60-day trial of the full Splunk 4 Enterprise functionality.

"Since the beginning, a free version was a critical part of what made Splunk, Splunk. We were frustrated with the tools available for running IT, so we built Splunk Free for everyone to add to their bag of tricks," said Erik Swan, CTO and co-founder, Splunk. "Our users can now get our latest and greatest release, Splunk 4, for free. Splunk Free has everything you'd want in a personal IT utility knife with dramatically improved speed, a powerful search language, and out-of-the-box apps." Swan concluded, "Splunk is driven to help solve some of IT's biggest challenges and to do so with a version that's free."

Splunk Free User Praise

"I downloaded the free version of Splunk, installed it on my reverse proxy server, setup a directory to monitor, and was able to instantly pull up the direct number of web-mail hits for the past 13 months." said Matt Smith, Applications Systems Analyst, St Dominic's Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. "I did this all in under 10 minutes. That's amazing."

Splunk 4: Free vs. Enterprise License

Splunk Free is available now. The free download automatically includes all the Enterprise features of Splunk 4 for 60 days and lets users index 500 megabytes of data per day. After 60 days, or anytime before then, users can convert to a Splunk Free license or purchase an Enterprise license to continue using the expanded functionality designed for multi-user enterprise deployments and get full enterprise support.

Following is more detail on the features and functionality of Splunk Free and Splunk Enterprise.

Typical Free User Profiles:

  • Anyone: Search, analyze and report on any of your IT data including bulk-loaded, historical data
  • Developers: Analyze application logs, trace logs and performance metrics to troubleshoot dev and production environments
  • Sysadmins: Troubleshoot across every tier of your infrastructure - physical servers, virtual machines, applications and networks
  • Security Analysts: Identify and investigate attacks, incidents & anomalous events

Comparing the Free and Enterprise Licenses

Feature Description Free Enterprise  
Indexing Volume Indexing volume per day 500MB/day Unlimited
(depends on license)		  
Universal Indexing Index any IT data source      
Ad-hoc Search Search and investigate anything in your IT data      
Reporting Create ad-hoc reports, visualize and analyze your data      
Knowledge Mapping Add knowledge about events, fields, transactions, patterns and statistics to your IT data      
Personal Dashboards Create rich dashboards by combining pre-defined searches, charts and reports      
Enterprise Dashboards Create fast and scalable dashboards for use across the organization, with role based access controls and per user customization
   
Monitoring & Alerting Schedule searches for continual monitoring and alerting on events simple and complex
   
Distributed Deployments Support for distributed search, load balancing and failover
   
Forwarding & Receiving Support for forwarding and receiving data from other Splunk indexers      
Access Controls Support for user authentication and role-based access controls
   
Works with Free Apps Supports free Apps distributed by Splunk and Partners      
Works with Premium Apps Supports premium Apps distributed by Splunk and Partners
   
Developer APIs Fully documented, programmatic interface to integrate IT data into any business or development workflow      
Community Support Access to full Product Documentation, Forums and IRC for answers to basic technical questions      
Enterprise Support Direct access to our Customer Support Team by phone, ability to manage cases online (tailored support levels also available)
   
]]> Tue, 27 Oct 2009 1:00:01 +0800 /company/4172 Uncategorized Splunk Achieves 90% Growth in Q3; Adds a Record 153 New Customers SAN FRANCISCO - October 20, 2009 - Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced third quarter (Q3) results with year-over-year growth of over 90 percent and over 200 percent growth in the EMEA and APAC regions. The company also added a record 153 new customers, increasing the count to over 1300, now including 39 of the Fortune 100. The accomplishments of Q3 coincide with the launch of Splunk 4, the highly acclaimed new release of the IT Search technology that has disrupted the IT management and security markets since first shipped in 2006. The company also announced that it has reached profitability.

Further validation of the value and widespread pervasiveness of IT Search, Splunk Q3 sales growth and new customer acquisition was distributed across virtually all industries and geographies. Splunk growth comes from prominent customers such as NATO, Credit Suisse, Sutter Health, IAH Games, The United States Department of State and Department of Energy, Georgia Institute of Technology, and NCHC - Taiwan's National Center for High-Performance Computing. "Splunk delivers a better way to manage, secure and audit IT infrastructures by reducing the time it takes to identify incidents and IT failures from days to minutes," said Splunk president and CEO, Godfrey Sullivan. "Splunk's Q3 growth and international expansion are testament to our people and innovative IT Search technology." He added, "The release of Splunk 4, with its speed and usability improvements, are accelerating customer adoption and building market leadership for the company."

Driving Splunk's Q3 success was the global launch of Splunk 4. The new release redefines the speed of previous releases with up to 10x faster search and 2x faster indexing, radically enhancing IT issue resolution times and incident investigations. Splunk 4 is now available in Japanese and Chinese. Since launch in July users have downloaded Splunk 4 over 40,000 times.

Additionally in Q3, Splunk hosted eleven Splunklive! events on four continents. These interactive events featured a marquee line-up of Splunk customer presenters such as: Vodafone, Telenor, Early Warning, Amkor Technologies, Intuit, MySpace, Edmunds.com, Ericsson, VeriSign, Autodesk, IDT Corp, Moody's, New York Life, Comcast, and Discovery Communications.

Splunk Q3 Highlights:

  • Year-over-year company growth: +90% vs. Q3 '08
  • Record 153 new customers
  • Record 97 customer expansions
  • Q3 sales in 22 different countries, with customers now in 64 countries
  • New Partnerships
    • Resellers: OCA, Australia
    • Distributors: Excelerate Systems, Latin America
    • System Integrators: Vectra & Frontline, Australia, Forsythe Technology Solutions, North America
  • Introduced two Splunk Apps: Splunk for Unix and Splunk for Windows server management
  • Introduced Splunk Technology Partner Apps: BlueCoat, Cisco and F5
  • Splunk now available in Japanese & Chinese versions
]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 9:04:56 +0800 /company/4167 Uncategorized Splunk Appoints Tom Schodorf as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations SAN FRANCISCO – October 6, 2009 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced that Tom Schodorf, former vice president and general manager of BMC Software, has been appointed to the position of Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations. Schodorf's experience includes domestic and international sales and executive management positions at BMC Software and IBM spanning the past 26 years.

Schodorf spent 17 years at BMC in a number of executive positions, most recently as Vice President and General Manager of the Identify business unit. While at Identify, Schodorf led R&D, sales and marketing with full P&L responsibility. Schodorf also led BMC Software’s Asia-Pacific team, based in Singapore, and the U.S. Commercial division. Prior to BMC Software, Schodorf was a sales executive with IBM for over nine years.

"Tom is the right executive at the right time for Splunk. He combines the best of sales excellence, global experience, and a great fit with Splunk’s customer-oriented culture," said Godfrey Sullivan, CEO, Splunk. "We are glad to have Tom on our team as we move to the next stage of Splunk’s expansion."

Founded in 2004, Splunk created the category of IT Search. The company is experiencing nearly 100 percent growth this year, and international business accounts for approximately 20 percent of the company’s total business.

"Joining the Splunk team was an easy decision, given the company’s seasoned management team and strong commitment to their customers. I am excited to join a fast-paced software company that is taking disruptive technology to the IT market," said Schodorf.

]]> Tue, 6 Oct 2009 8:29:06 +0800 /company/4145 Uncategorized Splunk Launches the Next Generation of IT Search SAN FRANCISCO – July 21, 2009 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced Splunk 4, the next generation of IT Search. In 2006 Splunk changed the game with its release of the "by IT for IT" Splunk IT Search technology. Since then, the success has been well chronicled, Splunk and IT Search have consistently won awards and recently passed the 1,000-licensed customer mark. Utilizing input from customers and a community of passionate users, Splunk IT Search built its reputation with powerful capabilities to troubleshoot outages, investigate security incidents and demonstrate compliance, providing a new and vastly better approach to helping IT professionals get their jobs done. Today, with the release of Splunk 4, the company continues to innovate by dramatically improving the speed, scale, usability and manageability of this pioneering IT Search technology.

Founded by experienced IT pros to overcome the limits presented by manual processes, point solutions and proprietary technologies, the Splunk vision remains unchanged. Customer IT management and security challenges will always be at the forefront of Splunk innovation. Building on the success of its predecessor release, Splunk 4 significantly improves an organization's ability to manage, secure and audit their entire IT infrastructure. Re-architected and supercharged, Splunk 4 has infused IT Search with lightning-fast speed and a highly customizable user interface that enables everyone from sysadmins to execs to realize the benefits of Splunk. Significant usability enhancements, combined with the Splunk track record of fast deployment, help ensure Splunk 4 users will be up and productive quickly to deliver a fast return on their investment.

"Splunk 4 unleashes the massive potential of IT Search," said Erik Swan, CTO and co-founder, Splunk. "Since day one, we've been in awe of the groundswell Splunk has created. As more and more users came aboard we learned about the power of IT Search over 'IT dark matter' [the world of unintelligible, unstructured IT data]," said Swan, adding "in Splunk 4 we absorbed extensive feedback from users and re-architected the product to support unlimited scalability, complex Splunk deployments and an increasingly diverse user base, and created a framework to develop and deploy IT Apps that leverage the Splunk engine." Swan concluded, "Our loyal users and new customers will love Splunk 4, and they will be able to extend the power of IT Search to anyone in their organization – with this release, there is innovation for everyone."

In addition to substantial scalability and manageability improvements, Splunk 4 offers users the ability to create custom dashboards for anyone in fewer than five clicks. The release also re-defines the speed of previous releases with up to 10x faster search and 2x faster indexing, radically enhancing IT issue resolution times and incident investigations, giving users the power to index terabytes per day and search on massive amounts of IT data to deliver results in seconds on low-cost commodity server hardware.

"We are seeing dramatically faster search and indexing rates--in the range of roughly 10x faster searches and 2x faster indexing speeds," said Sean Delaney of VeriSign. "With Splunk 4 we were easily able to build role‐based, custom dashboards to give our service desk views into the data needed to resolve issues the first time and avoid escalations. We plan to introduce Splunk to other groups in the Authentication business unit to accomplish similar productivity gains."

Splunk understands how customer needs are diverse and constantly changing, and through this new release, users now have the power to easily develop and deploy IT Apps running on the Splunk engine. In addition to customers developing their own IT Apps and dashboards running on Splunk, an increasingly broad set of Apps are becoming available for use from Splunk and Splunk technology partners: examples include Enterprise Security, PCI Compliance, and Change Management from Splunk, and partner Apps for use with F5, VMware and Blue Coat. These IT Apps dramatically expand the utility and value the Splunk engine delivers to customers. In addition, with Splunk 4, users can easily navigate from one installed App to another, for instance, while managing a security incident a user can move from the Enterprise Security Suite App to the Change Management App to see if a configuration change has impacted an investigation, saving them valuable time.

"Using the same set of data, Splunk 4 provides sysadmins, security analysts, auditors and CISOs the ability to leverage the custom dashboards, views, or apps they need to get their jobs done. Based on their role, Splunk 4 makes it much easier for them to troubleshoot IT issues, investigate incidents, identify fraud, report on compliance and correlate trends," said Michael Montecillo, principal analyst, Enterprise Management Associates.

Additional Splunk 4 Beta Customer Feedback:

"I want to congratulate Splunk on a wonderful job; we are always surprised at how the product gets better with each release and is developing in the way we'd like to see for use within our organization." - Vodafone

"We believe that Splunk 4's massive performance and scale enhancements will be instrumental in helping Edmunds to improve the indexing and management of our ever-increasing log volume." - Edmunds.com

"We've been able to build a series of apps that run on top of the Splunk 4 engine that use IT Search to provide F5 customers greater visibility and reporting." - F5

"The new reporting capabilities are very powerful. The wizard makes it easy for Tier 1 support or marketing folks to build the reports they need. The new customizable UI is a huge improvement—it opens up many more use cases for us." - Vodafone

"In addition to the obvious speed and scalability enhancements in Splunk 4, the release also has hundreds of cool new improvements that will make my team more productive and help us to expand the benefits of Splunk to many different users." - Swisscom

About Splunk 4

Eighteen months, over 1,800 enhancements and 50+ features are included in Splunk 4. These enhancements cover four key areas:

Enterprise Speed and Scale

  • Splunk 4 obliterates its past performance with up to 10x faster search and 2x faster indexing.
  • Splunk 4 is the industry’s highest performance search engine for unstructured IT data and based on a MapReduce implementation.

Enterprise-wide Usability

  • Splunk 4 provides the power to easily build custom dashboards for any user, from hardcore techies to mid-level IT and senior management, expanding the footprint of Splunk throughout the organization.
  • Splunk 4 has new features such as a new Search Assistant and a Getting Started App to speed the learning curve for novice users.

Enterprise Management

  • Splunk 4 offers enterprise-grade manageability for customers having single Splunk servers or complex geographically distributed implementations with thousands of Splunk servers and forwarders. Now, with Splunk Manager, administrators can now manage their Splunk installations centrally and delegate management of Splunk to departments and users.
  • The Splunk Manager also provides more comprehensive role-based access controls. Permissions can be set to restrict user access to specific data sources, Apps, dashboards, management configurations and other system parameters.

From Search Engine to IT App Engine

  • Splunk 4 App Framework offers users the ability to create or leverage existing Apps running on the IT Search engine, for the growing universe of out-of-the-box solutions from Splunk, Partners and the Splunk User Community.
  • A partial list of Apps includes: Splunk for PCI, Splunk Enterprise Security Suite, Splunk for Change Management, Splunk for Windows, Splunk for *nix, Splunk for use with F5 Solutions, Splunk for Blue Coat, Splunk for VMware, Splunk 2 Nagios.
  • Splunk 4 Apps can be seen at: www.splunk.com/apps, where customers can browse and download Splunk Apps and updates, including Partner Apps, Free Splunk Apps, and Community Apps. Splunk users can also browse apps from the product itself, using the new Splunk Launcher interface.

Splunk 4 is available immediately. Free trial downloads are also available immediately. To learn more, please visit: www.splunk.com/download.

]]> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 4:19:42 +0800 /company/4046 Uncategorized Splunk Posts Another Record-setting Quarter; Passes 1,000 Licensed Customer Milestone SAN FRANCISCO – July 15, 2009 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced yet another blockbuster quarter, this time for its second quarter results, ending June 30, 2009. The company closed its strongest quarter to date, with the addition of 113 new customers, bringing the total customer count to over 1100. Splunk's growth was distributed across all sectors (financial services, electronics, manufacturing, high technology, education, retail) and geographies (North America, EMEA, APAC), and included prominent new customers such as Deutsche Bank, Siemens, Credit Agricole, iContact, Duke University and Fry's Electronics. Splunk's bookings growth and speed passing the 1,000th customer milestone are added testaments to the value of IT Search and the critical role it's playing within IT organizations.

"Our success this quarter across all geographies and sectors underscores the fact that Splunk delivers users tremendous value and is making a profound impact in managing, securing and auditing IT," said Splunk President and CEO, Godfrey Sullivan. "In the midst of a challenging economic environment, Splunk is thrilled to have passed well beyond the 1000-customer mark." He added, "Our record growth and the ongoing management of our expenses have enabled us to accelerate our goal of profitability in 2009."

In addition to Splunk surpassing the 1000th customer milestone in Q2 '09, Splunk CTO and co-founder, Erik Swan, was named as a recipient of the prestigious IDG InfoWorld CTO 25, an annual award that honors chief technology officers who demonstrate leadership within their companies and in the IT community. This honor demonstrates Splunk's commitment to a "by the people, for the people" approach to developing technology, further validating the company's innovative position as the pioneer of IT Search.

"It’s no surprise that the people behind Splunk’s technology are being recognized for their efforts," added Sullivan. "Erik is certainly deserving of this honor, our technology advantage is a direct result of his ability to innovate, to build strong teams, and to carefully listen to the voice of our customers."

Among other noteworthy accomplishments for Splunk during Q2 '09 were honors awarded by SC Magazine. Splunk received a "five out of five" rating in the SC Magazine Group Forensics Product test, being highlighted for its ease-of-use, support and return on investment. Also, SC Magazine Europe honored Splunk as the winner of the 2009 "Best Integrated Security Solution" award. The annual SC Magazine awards showcase the best solutions, services and professionals while recognizing achievement and technical excellence in the information security industry in the EMEA region.

Additionally, Splunk competed with over 300 companies in the "Best of Interop" award at this year’s Interop Japan, and took top honors in the "Best of Show" category in Tokyo, building on the success of past Interop award wins, having previously been named the 2008 "Best of Interop" in the Network Management, Software and Services category. This award further expands the recognition Splunk receives from its user community, taking it to a global level.

Key Q2 Accomplishments:

  • Best quarter in company history (+98% vs. Q2 '08) and surpassed quarterly plan objectives
  • Added 113 new customers (1,107 total customers)
  • New partnerships: CTC Itochu – System Integrator, Japan; Perficient - Reseller, North America
  • Winner 2009 "Best of Show" Interop Japan
  • Splunk CTO Erik Swan named to the IDG InfoWorld CTO top 25
  • Five-star review in SC Magazine’s Forensics Group Product Review
  • Winner 2009 SC Magazine Award, Europe: Best Integrated Security Solution
  • Selected as a CRN Emerging Technology Vendor by Everything Channel
  • Thirty-seven customers in the Fortune 100
]]> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 0:38:04 +0800 /company/3262 Uncategorized Splunk Named a CRN Emerging Technology Vendor SAN FRANCISCO - June 23, 2009 - Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced it has been selected by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Technology Vendor. Splunk was selected as a result of its 100% year over year global growth and its creation of a unique partner ecosystem including technology partner, reseller and system integration channels. CRN's Emerging Technology Vendor list captures companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology that undercuts industry giants.

Splunk IT Search is a disruptive new approach to troubleshooting, securing and auditing complex, dynamic IT environments. The concept is simple. If Google can index and let users instantly search billions of pages of Web content, why can't we do the same for billions of pieces of data from an IT environment? The result of thinking differently, Splunk indexes the data from any application, server or network device and lets organizations instantly search, alert and report across technical, functional and geographic IT silos. More than 1,000 enterprises, service providers and government agencies are Splunk customers and the free version of Splunk has been downloaded more than 350,000 times.

Splunk works with technology, system integration and value-added reseller partners allowing them to bring the real-time search, alerting, reporting and analytics of Splunk to partner solutions and enable their customers to successfully address critical operations, security and compliance requirements to reduce costs within their IT infrastructures. More than 50 Splunk Powered partners are fueling their products and services with Splunk.

"Solution Providers seek out innovative vendors that create new and innovative ideas to help them build revenue and customer loyalty. Our Emerging Tech list is where Solution Providers go to find these vendors. We congratulate all of the vendors for their innovation and creativity and their commitment to the technology sales channel," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel.

"Splunk enables our partners to bring incredible cost reduction and increased availability to their customers utilizing a new and disruptive approach to managing, securing and auditing applications, servers, network devices, storage, security and virtualization infrastructures," said Michael Baum, co-founder and chief business development officer, Splunk. "Partners love the fact that they can leverage our free download and lead generation model, quick sales cycle and rapid customer ROI."

The vendors who make the CRN Emerging Technology Vendor list were founded in 2001 or later, have revenue under $1 billion and have an active U.S. channel strategy. Final selection to the Emerging Technology Vendor list was made by the CRN editorial team after a review of submitted information.

About Splunk

Splunk is the IT Search company radically changing the way organizations manage and secure their IT infrastructures. Only Splunk enables you to search, analyze, monitor and report on data from any application, server or network device in real time to troubleshoot outages, investigate security incidents, meet compliance requirements, and more, in minutes instead of hours or days. Over 1,000 enterprises, government organizations and service providers, and more than 350,000 users, use Splunk to achieve higher availability, investigate security incidents in record time, and realize new levels of IT operational efficiency. Partners such as BT and Cisco and over 50 OEM, System Integrator, Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners are driving new business and fueling their offerings with IT Search. Download your own free copy of Splunk today at www.splunk.com/download

Everything Channel

www.everythingchannel.com www.channelweb.com

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited

www.unitedbusinessmedia.com

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 8:44:38 +0800 /company/3237 Uncategorized Splunk's Erik Swan Captures InfoWorld CTO Top 25 Award Honors SAN FRANCISCO - June 1, 2009 - Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced that Splunk CTO, and co-founder, Erik Swan has been named as a recipient of the prestigious IDG InfoWorld CTO 25 Awards, an annual award that honors senior IT executives, like Swan, who demonstrate leadership within their companies and in the IT community. The honor further demonstrates the company's commitment to leadership excellence and validation of its innovative IT Search approach for managing, securing and auditing IT.

InfoWorld believes that CTOs are often the unsung heroes of IT, potentially driving new technology development for customer-facing and/or internal use and managing and improving the core technology that underpins the business operations. In any case, the long-standing publication believes that it's CTOs that translate the promise of technology into real business benefit. In his role at Splunk, Swan is the company's chief product innovator. Having spent years managing large-scale IT infrastructures at companies like Yahoo!, Infoseek, Disney and Apple, Swan and the other Splunk founders were constantly frustrated by the inflexible and unfriendly tools required to manage, secure and audit these environments. With a "by the people, for the people" approach, Swan and his team are dedicated to building software "they" want to use. His approach to product development at Splunk is to trust autonomous teams of really smart people to deliver amazing innovations in an iterative, open environment.

"It's true that our design philosophy is to deliver technology "by the people, for the people". We've been committed to creating software that we really wanted to use ourselves. So it's no wonder users and industry experts are enthusiastic fans," said Erik Swan, CTO and co-founder, Splunk. "People in the trenches like sysadmins, security analysts, network engineers, developers or service desk and support staff can use Splunk right away and get the really challenging parts of their jobs done better, faster and more easily. Splunk users routinely solve problems in minutes that used to take them hours or days. That's the power of Splunk, and the reason people love it."

Swan and his Splunk team created an IT Search engine unique in its ability to quickly deploy, easily scale - and most importantly - provide companies with tangible, immediate results that validate a return on investment. Splunk's innovative approach to keeping the IT infrastructure available, secure and compliant, enables customers to index and search logs, configurations, messages, traps, alerts, metrics and more from any IT component, from one location and in real time. Organizations use this data to troubleshoot outages, speed threat analysis and response, and drive compliance reporting.

"The diversity of challenges that a CTO faces was very evident in this year's InfoWorld CTO 25 entries. But what was common across the 25 CTOs we chose as the year's top CTOs was a combination of management savvy, technological insight, and the ability to lead a team to success even in difficult circumstances," said Galen Gruman, executive editor, News and Features, InfoWorld . "This year's honorees reinvented untenable legacies, provided game-changing insight to make their businesses succeed through the use of technology. Our honorees did much more than implement technology well; they brought its use to a new level."

InfoWorld coverage, with additional detail of achievements by Swan and Splunk can be found at http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-management/best-ctos-2009-133.

In addition to earning this esteemed award, Splunk's recent list of accomplishments include:

  • Q1 2009 results: adds 110 customers, best quarter ever (+110% over Q1 2008)
  • Winner 2009 SC Magazine Award, Europe: Best Integrated Security Solution
  • Winner of 2009 TiE50 Award
  • Ranked #1 in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Rising Stars
  • Thirty-one licensed customers in the Fortune 100
  • Named Among San Francisco Business Times "2008 Best Places to Work"

About InfoWorld Media Group

InfoWorld Media Group helps IT Decision Makers choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy for business impact at their organizations. InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, research, and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com.

About International Data Group

International Data Group (IDG) is the world's leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG's online network includes more than 450 web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment and video games worldwide. IDG also publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries. IDG's media brands include CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG's lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers. IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related events including Macworld Conference & Expo, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Entertainment for All Expo (E for All), DEMO, Storage Networking World, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 900 IDC analysts in more than 90 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends.

Additional information about IDG, a privately held company, is available at http://www.idg.com. ]]> Mon, 1 Jun 2009 9:25:37 +0800 /company/3205 Uncategorized Splunk Named a Winner of the TiE50 SAN FRANCISCO – May 20, 2009 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced that it has won a 2009 TiE50 award, a highly influential list of the hottest and most promising startup companies across five segments -- Internet Infrastructure, Wireless, Cleantech, Software, and Consumer Web. The TiE50, which was presented at this month's TiEcon 2009, honors the top 50 startup companies that are leaders in innovation, ingenuity, and show excellence in management.

"The concept behind Splunk is simple, if Google can make it possible for users to search billions of pages of Web content, why not apply that same principle to the datacenter? Splunk is the only company that does this and we do it really well," said Godfrey R. Sullivan, President and CEO, Splunk. "As a result, IT Search has emerged as an indispensable technology that provides organizations with the ability to understand what's really happening across their entire IT infrastructure."

Over 1,200 nominees competed for the honor and the TiE50 judging process included meticulous screening and judging by a list of over forty prominent entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, corporate executives and other domain experts, as well as voting by the wider segment community. TiE50 winners are diverse in terms of size, progress, maturity and location. However, each winner shares a common thread of innovation, ingenuity, strong management teams and overall quality of ideas.

"All of this year's winners embraced TiE's message of the bold entrepreneur," said Mateen Syed, TiE50 Chair. "The judges were impressed by the quality of ideas and execution across each vertical segment. These fifty companies represent the finest in entrepreneurship and serve as role models, encouraging and inspiring emerging start-ups to succeed as Bold Entrepreneurs stimulating the economy."

Splunk IT Search is pioneering an innovative approach to keeping the IT infrastructure available, secure and compliant. Splunk lets organizations index and search their logs, configurations, messages, traps, alerts, metrics and more from any IT component from a single location in real time. Organizations use this data to troubleshoot outages, speed threat analysis and response, and drive compliance reporting in minutes instead of hours or days. Splunk customers can create and distribute their own custom searches, alerts, and reports (apps), in addition to downloading apps created by anyone in the Splunk ecosystem.

TiE50 winners, which also included innovative companies such as Kiva and Mint, presented their companies in a live showcase over the two days of TiEcon 2009, on May 15th and 16th in Santa Clara, CA. TiEcon 2009 is two action-packed days of rich dialogue, networking and deal making with thousands of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, industry executives, and thought leaders. TiEcon 2009 is themed "The BOLD Entrepreneur", focusing on dynamic individuals who are able to adapt to changing conditions and create their own future despite downturns and uncertainties.

About TiE

TiE is a global, not-for-profit, non-political, and non-religious organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurs across its international network sponsored by top venture capital firms and Fortune 500 corporations. TiE is spread across 53 chapters in 12 countries comprising of 1,800 experienced entrepreneurs and business executives as charter members, 12,000 aspiring entrepreneurs and professionals as members.

About Splunk

Splunk is the IT Search company radically changing the way organizations manage and secure their IT infrastructures. Only Splunk enables you to search, analyze, monitor and report on data from any application, server or network device in real time to troubleshoot outages, investigate security incidents, meet compliance requirements, and more, in minutes instead of hours or days. Over 900 enterprises, government organizations and service providers, and more than 300,000 users, use Splunk to achieve higher availability, investigate security incidents in record time, and realize new levels of IT operational efficiency. Partners such as BT and Cisco and over 50 OEM, System Integrator, Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners are driving new business and fueling their offerings with IT Search.

]]> Wed, 20 May 2009 8:00:00 +0800 /company/3194 Uncategorized Splunk Named Among "Best Places to Work" in Bay Area, Again SAN FRANCISCO – May 5, 2009 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced the San Francisco Business Times ranked Splunk 29th in their annual list of "Best Places to Work" 2009. Awarded to the top 100 companies in the Bay Area, this award is based upon surveys completed by 61% of company employees. Prestigious honor is given to the most outstanding companies to work for based on a ranking solely comprised from employee surveys. This is the second year in a row Splunk was recognized with this award.

"Without our employees, Splunk would not be the company it is today or on such a fast trajectory. Few companies are experiencing growth like Splunk during these challenging times," said Sheren Bouchakian, VP of Human Resources, Splunk. "Being ranked highly among the best companies to work for by the San Francisco Business Times is a true representation of our commitment to our employees and it reflects their hard work, dedication and loyalty to Splunk." She added, "Our employees represent the best and brightest in the industry and we are incredibly appreciative of each one of them."

The overall goal of the San Francisco Business Times in announcing the "Best Places to Work" is to give proper recognition to companies within the Bay Area that promote a positive workplace experience where employees enjoy coming to work everyday.

Employees were tasked with completing a survey that was completely voluntary, requiring personal time to be taken in order to supply the answers. The questions on the survey inquired about workplace satisfaction, personal growth opportunities and managerial effectiveness. Employees were asked to rate each question on a scale of one to 10, indicating how well your employer satisfied the inquiry, which included potential for career growth and foreseen future with the company. Results from the employee surveys were overwhelmingly positive.

"The energy at Splunk is like no other company that I’ve ever worked for," said Erin Sweeney at Splunk. "When you have such a solid core group of coworkers, and founders who aren’t afraid of breaking the mold, coming to work everyday isn’t a task, it's fun and something I look forward to doing."

In addition to this recognition, Splunk’s recent list of accomplishments includes:
  • Year over year growth over 85% (2008 vs. 2007)
  • Winner 2008 Systems Management Product of the Year Award
  • Winner 2009 SC Magazine Award, Europe: Best Integrated Security Solution
  • Thirty-one licensed customers in the Fortune 100
  • Added 110 new customers in Q1 ’09 (994 total customers)
]]> Tue, 5 May 2009 9:44:14 +0800 /company/3171 Uncategorized Splunk Wins 2009 SC Magazine Reader Trust Award LONDON and SAN FRANCISCO — May 1, 2009 — Splunk, the IT Search company, announced today that the company has been recognized with SC Magazine UK’s 2009 Reader Trust Award. The award was announced at the exclusive SC Magazine Awards Europe Gala in at the Hurlingham Club in London during the Infosecurity Europe 2009 Conference & Expo. The awards were designed by the publication to reward companies, such as Splunk, for affording excellence and innovation in every aspect of IT security.

"With the ever-changing IT landscape, companies have recognized the tremendous value associated with IT Search, especially to improve their security posture," said Erik Swan, chief technology officer, Splunk. "Splunk’s selection by the SC Magazine readers as the Best Integrated Security Solution in EMEA is a reflection of the power of IT Search for security and compliance, providing users with the ability to dramatically speed investigations and lower their exposure through monitoring and detecting attacks."

Splunk, also a finalist in the SC Magazine US award program, was recognized with the Best Integrated Security Solution in the EMEA region by readers representing information technology’s most knowledgeable security professionals. Splunk's innovative security and compliance capabilities deliver companies, including prominent EMEA customers such as Telenor, Gala Coral, Crosskey Banking Solutions, Carlson Marketing, and PostFinance, the ability to quickly search and analyze their entire IT infrastructure from a single location in real time. Most customers achieve a reduction in incident investigation times of 50 to 90 percent, not only lowering incident response costs, but also dramatically reducing risk as attack windows are shortened.

"Our judges have recognized the Splunk IT Search Platform for its ability to address pressing IT security challenges facing the industry today," said Paul Fisher, editor in chief, SC Magazine. "It's a well deserved testament to Splunk's success in helping organizations tackle IT security on a day-to-day basis."

The annual SC Magazine Awards highlight and showcase the best solutions, services and professionals while recognizing achievement and technical excellence in the information security industry in the EMEA region. This year, with almost 700 entries submitted in thirty categories, the 2009 EMEA SC magazine Awards was the most competitive yet in the program’s twelve year history. Featured on the SC website, Splunk and the other winners are in five different award sections — professional, technology, excellence, product and industry.

For more information and a detailed list of categories and winners, please visit http://www.scmagazineuk.com.

About Splunk

Splunk is the IT Search company radically changing the way organizations manage and secure their IT infrastructures. Only Splunk enables you to search, analyze, monitor and report on data from any application, server or network device in real time to troubleshoot outages, investigate security incidents, meet compliance requirements, and more, in minutes instead of hours or days. Over 900 enterprises, government organizations and service providers, and more than 300,000 users, use Splunk to achieve higher availability, investigate security incidents in record time, and realize new levels of IT operational efficiency. Partners such as BT, Cisco and over 50 OEM, System Integrator, Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners are driving new business and fueling their offerings with IT Search. Download your own free copy of Splunk today at http://www.splunk.com

About SC Magazine

SC Magazine provides IT security professionals with in-depth and unbiased information through timely news, comprehensive analysis, cutting-edge features, contributions from thought leaders and the best, most extensive collection of product reviews in the business. By offering a consolidated view of IT security through independent product tests and well-researched editorial content that provides the contextual backdrop for how these IT security tools will address larger demands put on businesses today, SC Magazine enables IT security pros to make the right security decisions for their companies. The brand’s portfolio includes the SC Awards, SC Directory, SC Magazine Newswire and SC Magazine IT Security Executives Forums.

]]> Fri, 1 May 2009 0:00:00 +0800 /company/3168 Uncategorized Splunk and GlassHouse Launch Enterprise Security Application Suite SAN FRANCISCO — April 21, 2009 — Splunk, the IT Search company, and GlassHouse Technologies, a global IT consulting and services firm, announced today the immediate availability of the Splunk Enterprise Security Suite (ESS). Jointly developed by Splunk and GlassHouse, Splunk ESS brings the power of enterprise security information and event management together with the fast ad-hoc search, flexibility, scalability and easy-to-deploy benefits of Splunk in one integrated suite. For the first time, enterprises with limited security resources can harness the power of Splunk to turn all their IT data into security-relevant information.

As the search engine for IT data, Splunk can index logs, events and activities generated by any application, server or network device without complex connectors, custom parsers or expensive database deployments. GlassHouse adds security operations domain knowledge that Splunk ESS users can now leverage to correlate IT data and provide insight into the security posture of their organizations. Splunk ESS is a robust solution that integrates security, compliance and operations activities and enables enterprises to achieve faster incident response, more comprehensive security and compliance reporting and lower security operations costs.

The Splunk Enterprise Security Suite is immediately available directly through Splunk, its channel partners and as a managed service offering, called Interrogate, through co-development partner GlassHouse. Splunk and GlassHouse are currently delivering Splunk ESS and Interrogate to Motorola and other enterprise customers.

Splunk ESS is an enterprise-class security suite built on the Splunk Common Information Model (SCIM) and supports both Common Event Expression (CEE) and Common Event Format (CEF) for interoperability of event data with other security and log management solutions.

Today's enterprise security environment is characterized by an increasingly dynamic threat landscape driving a rapid escalation in the number of potential security incidents and the cost of dealing with increasing risk and exposure. In their "2009 Market Outlook for IT Security", Forrester Research estimates the cost of enterprise security operations will increase by 18% in 2009 over 2008.

"This first release of the Enterprise Security Suite demonstrates the power to create breakthrough applications that leverage the Splunk engine and its universal indexing. Making all IT data universally available means we can knock down the silos that have traditionally kept individual security, compliance and operational functions separate and cost IT organizations a lot of money," said Michael Baum, Chief Corporate & Business Development Officer and Co-founder, Splunk.

"Leveraging Splunk's powerful engine has allowed us to create security services providing significant business value to our customers," said Mark Shirman, Chief Executive Officer, GlassHouse. "Our managed service offering, Interrogate, helps customers understand how to use the data in their log files to better manage their security environment. Together, GlassHouse and Splunk have created the next evolution in IT security management." The Splunk Enterprise Security Suite is a collection of security applications consisting of packaged searches, correlations, reports, dashboards, visualizations and analysis integrating a wide variety of security use cases including:

  • Security Posture Overview
  • Compliance Reporting
  • Endpoint Protection
  • Event Monitoring
  • Incident Response
  • ISO 27002 Governance
  • Log Management
  • Network Protection
  • User and System Access Reporting
  • Forensics

For more information on the Splunk Enterprise Security Suite, please visit: http://www.splunk.com/goto/ess

About Splunk

Splunk is the IT Search company radically changing the way organizations manage and secure their IT infrastructures. Only Splunk enables you to search, analyze, monitor and report on data from any application, server or network device in real time to troubleshoot outages, investigate security incidents, meet compliance requirements, and more, in minutes instead of hours or days. Over 900 enterprises, government organizations and service providers, and more than 300,000 users, use Splunk to achieve higher availability, investigate security incidents in record time, and realize new levels of IT operational efficiency. Partners such as BT, Cisco and over 50 OEM, System Integrator, Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners are driving new business and fueling their offerings with IT Search. Download your own free copy of Splunk today at http://www.splunk.com

About GlassHouse Technologies

GlassHouse Technologies is a global provider of IT infrastructure services enabling organizations to consolidate, virtualize, protect and manage their IT environments. GlassHouse delivers services through TransomSM, a unique delivery framework comprised of proprietary software tools, methodologies and domain expertise. We reduce costs, decrease risk and improve service levels by providing measurable results and vendor independent solutions. GlassHouse focuses on the storage, security, data protection, virtualization and data center markets. http://www.glasshouse.com

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Splunk, Inc.
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GlassHouse Technologies
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Katie Watson
Voce Communications
408.439.2002
kwatson@vocecomm.com

]]> Tue, 21 Apr 2009 0:00:00 +0800 /company/3154 Uncategorized Stopping Data Crashes Before They Can Start

SAN FRANCISCO - April 9, 2009 - The founders of Splunk Inc. used to feel the pain of trying to fix huge databases that crashed.

In response, they created an innovative search engine that searches IT logs and other data and packages them into an index that can be searched constantly for errors, allowing IT professionals to find the problems in minutes instead of hours and avoid crashes in the first place.

The result is substantial buzz in global geekdom and rapidly growing sales for San Francisco-based Splunk, which has been taking market share from other established companies, according to analysts.

Splunk, founded in 2004, did about $20 million in business in 2008, up from $10 million in 2007 and $1 million in 2006. The fourth quarter was the company’s best yet, with 143 new customers added.

“Our goal for 2009 is to double our customer base, double revenues and keep the headcount flat,” said Godfrey Sullivan, who became Splunk’s president and CEO in September.

Splunk doubled its staff in 2008 to 150 people, with much of the investment going into sales. The company has raised $45 million in venture capital, including $25 million in 2007, and expects to be profitable by the end of this year. It claims 900 paying customers, up 411 in 2008, including 29 enterprises in the Fortune 100, and large government agencies. Customers range from Boeing and NASA to Visa and LinkedIn.

A key strategy Splunk has employed to win converts is distributing a free version capable of handling the requirements of a small business. The application has been downloaded roughly 300,000 times. Once an organization’s techies see what Splunk can do, they typically want the more sophisticated version, Sullivan said. That was the case with Adobe Systems of San Jose, said Peter Mierau, senior engineering manager at Adobe.

“Having a worldwide evangelism community for Splunk is the single most powerful thing we have as a company,” said Sullivan, who previously was CEO of Hyperion Solutions, which was acquired by Oracle in 2007 for $3.3 billion.

One Splunk fan is Segan Maddox, senior director of customer operations for San Carlos-based DemandTec Inc., which provides software to help manufacturers and retailers maximize their pricing and promotion strategies.

“It’s a very powerful product,” said Maddox. Splunk allows Maddox’s staff to centralize, search and monitor data from 250 separate servers and to keep watch for repeats of particular problems.

In the past, Maddox said he was mostly limited to monitoring availability of service.

“When you discover that service is not available, it is too late,” he said. “This allows us to investigate and in most cases remediate before an outage can occur.”

Nick Selby, a technology analyst at The451Group, said Splunk and other log management companies are poised to do very well, partly because what they offer is exactly what will be required to comply with increasing government regulation, particularly in the arena of financial services following numerous scandals involving failed firms on Wall Street.

That being said, Splunk has done an exceptional job of distinguishing itself from the pack, he said. Competitors are numerous and include Arcsight, Exaprotect, RSA and SenSage of San Francisco.

“Splunk has shown a marketing savvy and a business development strategy which is formidable, and it has managed to get a lot of attention for itself in the world of IT in a relatively short span of time,” Selby said.

Glenn O’Donnell, a senior analyst with Forrester Research, said what Splunk is offering is unique, and bigger vendors have been inquiring about it, either viewing the company as a threat or a potential acquisition target.

“In general, there’s a lot of buzz in the industry about Splunk,” he said. “When there’s that kind of interest, you know something interesting is happening.”

Snapshot: Splunk Inc.

  • What it does: Created a search engine that scans corporate IT data constantly for errors.
  • CEO: Godfrey Sullivan.
  • Location: San Francisco.
  • 2008 revenue: $20 million.
  • 2007 revenue: $10 million.
  • 2006 revenue: $1 million.
  • Revenue growth: 2,000 percent.
  • Employees: 150.
  • Founded: 2004.
]]> Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:33:06 +0800 http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/04/13/smallb1.html Uncategorized Splunk Closes Record Quarter; Adds 110 New Customers SAN FRANCISCO – April 6, 2009 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced breakthrough results for its first quarter, ending March 31, 2009. The record-setting quarter witnessed a year-over-year growth rate of over 100 percent and the best quarter in company history. In combination with this explosive growth, the company announced 110 new customers in Q1 2009, increasing the customer count to 989 enterprise, service provider and government customers using Splunk IT Search to better troubleshoot outages, investigate security incidents and drive compliance.

Company growth was distributed across all geographies (North America, EMEA, APAC) and market sectors, including prominent new customers such as Swisscom, Telenor and Fast Web (EMEA - Telecommunications), Adobe (North America – Global Software), Discovery Communications (North America – Media), IG Index (EMEA – Entertainment), Match.com (North America – Online Services), NeuStar (North America – Global Communications and Internet Services), and NTT Data (the top system integration company in Japan).

Accomplishments during the first quarter also included further expansion in Asia highlighted by the addition of two leading Japanese resellers: NTT Data and Macnica Networks. Splunk expanded operations in South America as well with the addition of reseller Virtus (Brazil). In other achievements, Splunk was selected as a finalist in the SC Magazine Awards in the category for "Best Integrated Security Solution" and was named the "2008 Systems Management Product of the Year" by a team of users, industry experts, analysts, consultants and the editorial staff from TechTarget's SearchDataCenter.com.

During the quarter Splunk also made a number of strategic steps to better align resources with long-term business goals and help achieve its 2009 profitability target. These changes include streamlining the management structure and eliminating approximately 15 positions across the company. "Achieving a year-over-year quarterly growth of over 100 percent is testament to the powerful pay-back our customers achieve using our innovative IT Search technology," said Godfrey Sullivan, president and CEO of Splunk. "The changes we recently made in our organization will enable us to both expand our global salesforce and better ensure that despite the macroeconomic environment we achieve our goal of being profitable this year."

This blockbuster quarter's achievements included the launch of the Splunk Powered Associate Program, with inaugural program members Apani, F5 Networks, PlaSec, Radware and RightScale. This new program allows Splunk partners to offer the free license of Splunk as a download from their websites, embedded in their software or hardware product, or served within a managed services infrastructure. In other partner news, security consulting company, GlassHouse Technologies, also became a Splunk partner.

Key Q1 Accomplishments:

  • Best quarter in company history (+100% vs. Q1 '08)
  • Added 110 new customers (989 total customers)
  • 46 customer expansions (+60% vs. Q1 2008)
  • Announced Splunk Powered Associates program: Apani, F5 Networks, PlaSec, Radware, RightScale
  • Winner 2008 Systems Management Product of the Year Award
  • Finalist SC Magazine Awards: Best Integrated Security Solution- EMEA
  • Added three regional resellers: NTT Data, Macnica Networks (Japan), Virtus (Brazil)
  • 31 customers in the Fortune 100
]]> Mon, 6 Apr 2009 5:00:00 +0800 /company/3118 Uncategorized Splunk Fuels its Global Reseller Program with the Addition of Macnica Networks SAN FRANCISCO —February 17, 2009 — Splunk, the IT Search company, and Macnica Networks Corp., one of the leading distributors in Japan of network appliances, software, telecom and storage solutions with more than 20 years of experience in selling and localizing software for the Japanese market, announced today that the two companies have signed an agreement to distribute and support Splunk in the Japanese market. The partnership enables Splunk to increase its presence in the region, while Macnica Networks now has the expanded portfolio to continue to deliver leading-edge solutions to its customer base.

"Macnica Networks consistently identifies innovative new products that provide proven and powerful networking solutions for our partners and customers," said Masahiro Miyabukuro, President, Macnica Networks. "Splunk IT Search delivers a unique technology that will improve compliance coverage, reduce operational costs and increase network availability across our customers’ data centers. Local support is very important to Japanese customers and we are committed to providing the best services and support in partnership with Splunk."

Splunk IT Search bridges the gap created by silos of IT infrastructure data in enterprise and service provider environments. Splunk makes it possible to search and analyze data from any application, server or network device from a single location in real time. Splunk improves IT economics by reducing the time to troubleshoot problems and cutting operating costs in areas such as application management, security operations, and regulatory compliance. Traditional approaches to managing, securing, and auditing IT operations are typically complex, expensive, time-consuming to deploy, and limited to a small set of IT data sources. With Splunk IT Search, companies can now quickly and easily view and analyze all the data from every component of their IT infrastructure.

"This partnership and integration will enable companies to make their IT operations more efficient, a necessity in today’s economic climate," said Splunk President & CEO Godfrey R. Sullivan. "Macnica Networks is a recognized technology leader with an excellent distribution network in Japan. Their expertise in delivering innovative technologies and service support to data centers and networks is an ideal match for our pioneering IT Search technology. "

About Macnica Networks

Macnica Networks Corp. has over 20 years of experience in product localization, sales and substantial technical support of computer network equipment. Macnica Networks supplies a full line of leading-edge network appliances, software, telecom and storage solutions to its customers, and consistently brings innovative new products to their portfolio. Macnica Networks provides a high level of comprehensive technical support and educational programs to assist their customers with their applications. For more information, please visit: http://www.macnica.net/splunk

About Splunk

Splunk is the IT Search company radically changing the way organizations manage their IT infrastructures. Only Splunk enables you to search, analyze, monitor and report on data from any application, server or network device in real time to troubleshoot application outages, investigate security incidents, meet compliance requirements, and more, in minutes instead of hours or days. Over 900 enterprises, government organizations and service providers, and more than 300,000 users, use Splunk to achieve higher availability, investigate security incidents in record time, and realize new levels of IT operational efficiency. Partners such as BT and Cisco and over 50 OEM, System Integrator, Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners are driving new business and fueling their offerings with IT Search. Download your own free copy of Splunk today at http://www.splunk.com.

For more information, please contact:

Media Contacts

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

Yoko Ozawa
Public Relations
Macnica Networks Corporation
+81 45.476.1960
ozawa-y@macnica.net

Splunk Resellers

John Collins
Splunk Reseller Program
Splunk, Inc.
+1 415.848.8504
jcollins@splunk.com

]]> Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:31:29 +0800 /company/3019 Uncategorized Splunk Named 2008 Systems Management ‘Product of the Year’ SAN FRANCISCO —February 2, 2009 — Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced that Splunk has been named 'The 2008 Product of the Year' in the category of Systems Management by SearchDataCenter.com. The SearchDataCenter.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts, and consultants selected Splunk 3.3 based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality, and value.

Splunk provides a unique approach to indexing and searching IT infrastructures, making it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. As described by one SearchDataCenter.com judge, "Splunk has managed to establish itself as a solid new entrant into IT management. They found a hole in the tool-chain of operations people -- search -- and have worked diligently on filling that hole. On the business side, they've managed to partner with other players, large and small, and have been doing good work to become a mature company."

Splunk IT Search is the industry’s first integrated approach to keeping the IT infrastructure available, secure and compliant. Splunk lets organizations index and search their logs, configurations, messages, traps, alerts, and statistics from any IT component from a single location in real time. Organizations use this data to troubleshoot outages, speed threat analysis and response, and drive compliance reporting in minutes versus hours or days. Splunk customers can create and distribute their own custom searches, in addition to downloading apps created by anyone in the Splunk ecosystem. Apps for Splunk 3.3 include: Splunk for Change Management, Splunk for Microsoft Windows, Splunk for VMware and Splunk for Network Security.

"Winning top honors from SearchDataCenter.com is a great way to start off the New Year, validating our commitment to continuously innovating in a way that best serves our customers," said Godfrey Sullivan, CEO of Splunk. "We are excited about what lies ahead for Splunk in 2009 as we continue to push the envelope in terms of IT infrastructure management."

Splunk is available as a free download. To learn more about Splunk, or to download your copy of Splunk, please visit: http://www.splunk.com.

About SearchDataCenter.com

SearchDataCenter.com guides IT managers through the decision making and evaluation process they face when making key business choices for their corporate data centers. SearchDataCenter.com offers strategic and practical information on designing, maintaining, furnishing, staffing and running the enterprise data center, focusing on every aspect of the data center, including systems management, disaster recovery and backup, server consolidation strategies and more. SearchDataCenter.com is part of the TechTarget network (www.techtarget.com). TechTarget publishes integrated media that enable information-technology (IT) marketers to reach targeted communities of IT professionals and executives in all phases of the technology decision-making and purchase process. Through its industry-leading Web sites, magazines and conferences, TechTarget delivers measurable results that help IT marketers generate qualified sales leads, shorten sales cycles and grow revenues.

About Splunk

Splunk is the IT Search company radically changing the way organizations manage their IT infrastructures. Only Splunk enables you to search, analyze, monitor and report on data from any application, server or network device in real time to troubleshoot application outages, investigate security incidents, meet compliance requirements, and more, in minutes instead of hours or days. Over 900 enterprises, government organizations and service providers, and more than 300,000 users, use Splunk to achieve higher availability, investigate security incidents in record time, and realize new levels of IT operational efficiency. Partners such as BT and Cisco and over 50 OEM, System Integrator, Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners are driving new business and fueling their offerings with IT Search. Download your own free copy of Splunk today at http://www.splunk.com.

For more information, please contact:

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

]]> Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:22:13 +0800 /company/2835 Uncategorized Splunk Sails Into 2009 With Record-Setting Quarter and Year SAN FRANCISCO —January 28, 2009 — Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced record results for the fourth quarter and year, ending December 31, 2008. The record-setting year witnessed a year-over-year growth rate of 85% capped by the best quarter in company history. In combination with this explosive growth, the company announced 143 new customers and over 42,000 downloads in Q4 2008, increasing the customer count to over 900 enterprise, service provider and government customers using IT Search to troubleshoot network outages, investigate security incidents, and drive compliance. Customer growth was distributed across all geographies and market sectors, including prominent customers such as Live Nation (Global - Entertainment), Jamba Juice Company (North America – Food Service), Otto GmbH & Co KG (the world’s largest mail order company), and the University of California, Berkeley (North America – EDU).

Accomplishments during the fourth quarter also included two prestigious industry awards and noteworthy press coverage. Splunk was ranked number one in Deloitte’s "Technology Fast 50 Rising Star" awards for its rapid growth. In addition, Splunk was named a finalist in the SC Magazine Awards in the category for "Best Integrated Security Solution." Rounding out 2008, Splunk was honored to be named by ZDNet as "One of the Top 10 Most Influential Biztech Products of 2008."

The record-setting quarter included a partnership with F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. The Splunk and F5 partnership brings the disruptive IT Search and reporting capabilities of Splunk together with the leading application delivery technology of F5. Splunk for use with F5 solutions enables users to meet the complex needs of incident response, threat analysis and compliance and is designed specifically to work with the F5® BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™ (ASM™) and FirePass® SSL VPN solutions. Integration capabilities with these F5 solutions are now available as free downloads, with other F5 product-specific interoperability to follow.

In addition to the long list of fourth quarter achievements, Splunk expanded product platform support to support all current Windows® platforms including the 64 bit editions of Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2008.

Splunk’s continued growth extended to its team as well, with the company more than doubling its number of employees worldwide in 2008. In the fourth quarter, Sheren Bouchakian joined as Vice President of Human Resources. Bouchakian has over 17 years experience in HR, including previous experience at Jefferson Insurance Group and Alliance Capital Management. In her new role, she is responsible for all HR functions in building the Splunk global team.

"In the midst of the current economic environment, we are thrilled to close 2008 with a record-setting year and quarter," said Godfrey Sullivan, President and CEO of Splunk. "Our success is attributed to the value our customers achieve using IT Search to make their IT operations more efficient. Splunk customers gain complete visibility into their IT infrastructure that was previously unattainable and use this insight to achieve substantial operational efficiencies, drive security, and meet their service level agreements. As we move into 2009, our ability to deliver and advance upon this technology will only strengthen our position in the marketplace."

Key Company Accomplishments:

  • Best quarter in company history (+68% vs. Q4 '07)
  • Year over year growth of 85%
  • 143 new customers in Q4
  • 411 new customers in 2008 (+88% vs. 2007)
  • Added strategic partner: F5 Networks
  • Winner Deloitte Fast 50 Rising Star Award
  • Finalist SC Magazine Awards: Best Integrated Security Solution
  • Named on ZDNet: 10 Most Influential Biztech Products of 2008
  • Support for all current Windows® platforms incl. 64 bit Windows Vista®/Windows Server® 2008
  • 29 Customers in the Fortune 100
]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:27:28 +0800 /company/2825 Uncategorized Splunk Powered Associate Partner Program Launches SAN FRANCISCO — January 22, 2009 — Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced the launch of the Splunk Powered Associate Program, a new program that allows partners to offer the free license of Splunk as a download from their website, embedded in their software or hardware product, or served within a managed services infrastructure. The Splunk Powered Associate program enables partners to integrate the power of Splunk into their solutions at no cost to the partner, their channel or the customer. The program also provides the opportunity for partners to generate revenues, through Splunk enterprise license sales resulting from the relationship.

Splunk brings real time search, alerting, reporting and analytics to partner solutions allowing their customers to successfully reduce cost and address critical operations, security and compliance requirements within their IT infrastructures. Partners can easily package searches, alerts, reports and dashboards to provide immediate context for their customers.

"Our partnership with Splunk enables F5 customers to easily leverage the advanced search capabilities of the Splunk application" said Phil de la Motte, Sr. Business Development Manager at F5 Networks. "The integration between Splunk and F5's BIG-IP Application Security Manager and FirePass products gives our customers rapid and actionable insight into the log data produced from these security solutions, all with minimal deployment effort."

"With over 300,000 users, 900 enterprise customers, and more than 50 partners the demand for Splunk has created the opportunity to launch an affiliate program," said Michael Baum, Co-founder and Chief Corporate & Business Development Officer, Splunk. "As Amazon led the way with its Associate program for e-commerce, the Splunk Powered Associate program is doing the same for IT. Solution providers in analytics, cloud/SaaS/hosting, compliance, enterprise management, networking and storage, security and virtualization can freely distribute Splunk with their products and services to add new capabilities, generate download leads and share in Splunk enterprise license sales."

"RightScale is pleased to be one of the first members of the Splunk Powered Associate program and to bring Splunk's powerful IT Search technology to our cloud computing customers," said Josh Fraser, Vice president of Business Development at RightScale. "The integration of Splunk IT Search with the RightScale cloud computing management platform underscores our commitment to making cloud computing easy and reliable, while maintaining IT control and visibility."

Along with F5 and RightScale, other leading technology providers participating in the Splunk Powered Associate Program include Apani and Plasec. The Splunk Powered Associate program lets partners bring the power of Splunk to their community and increases the competitive position of their solutions at no upfront cost. Additionally, Splunk Powered Associate partners can optionally co-brand the Splunk user interface and include their own Splunk Apps with the free Splunk license distribution.

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 900 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 300,000 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 F5 Networks are driving new business with innovative products powered by Splunk. Download your own free copy today at http://www.splunk.com.

To find out more about the Splunk Powered Associate Program, please visit http://www.splunk.com/partners.

For more information, please contact:

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

Michael Wilde
Director, Splunk Powered Associate Program
512-524-9742
mwilde@splunk.com

]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:09:52 +0800 /company/2803 Uncategorized Splunk and NTT DATA Partner to Deliver Breakthrough IT Search Technology to Japanese Market SAN FRANCISCO – January 8, 2009 – Splunk, the IT Search company, and NTT DATA Corporation, the top system integration company in Japan, today announced an agreement to resell Splunk in combination with existing solutions and use Splunk to manage their own large-scale data centers. The partnership complements NTT Data's medium-term management goals, adding a powerful new software technology to their list of world class IT solutions.

Splunk IT Search bridges the gap created by silos of IT infrastructure data in enterprise and service provider environments. Splunk makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device from a single location in real time. Splunk improves IT economics by reducing the time to troubleshoot problems and cutting the cost of operations in areas like application management, security operations, and regulatory compliance. With this partnership, NTT Data aims to gain 10 percent of the log management solution market share in Japan by the end of fiscal year 2010.

NTT DATA Executive Vice President & CTO Shin-ichi Yamada said, "Splunk is a perfect solution to introduce to the Japanese market. Our clients are very focused on gaining operational efficiencies, reducing operating costs and improving their IT operations. Splunk software has proven to do this very cost-effectively. In addition, as our customers address JSOX and other compliance mandates, Splunk offers the capabilities needed to quickly meet these requirements."

"We are thrilled that a partner as prestigious as NTT DATA has evaluated and selected our software for both their internal use and for reselling to their clients throughout Japan," said Splunk President & CEO Godfrey R. Sullivan. "The Japanese market represents a tremendous opportunity for Splunk, and this partnership with NTT DATA is an important milestone for our company."

Traditional approaches to managing, securing, and auditing IT operations are typically complex, expensive, time-consuming to deploy, and limited to a small set of IT data sources. With Splunk IT Search, companies can now view all the data from every component of their IT infrastructures. Users can search the data quickly, identify the source of application failures or problems, investigate security incidents, easily generate the reports needed for compliance purposes, and more. With Splunk, finding and fixing problems, stopping an attacker or tracing transaction issues is made faster and easier.

More than ever before, IT infrastructures are far more mission critical, vulnerable to security threats and scrutinized for compliance. Trends such as virtualization, which promise to provide significant operating savings for companies, further increase the challenge of effectively managing IT operations. IT Search arms network engineers, system administrators, security and compliance analysts, developers, customer support, help desk staff, and even business users with an up-to-the-moment understanding of what’s happening within the IT infrastructure. IT Search enables companies to make their IT staff far more productive, particularly essential in today’s economic climate.

Splunk is used in areas such as:

  • Operations: pinpoint and recover from problems quickly; keep applications, servers and networks running
  • Security: fast, in-depth incident investigation and response to lower exposure and risk
  • Compliance: meet mandates and requirements for IT data management without disrupting operations
  • Log Collection: turn terabytes of logs into actionable information, Splunk transforms capturing and storing logs into providing powerful operational insight

To download a free copy of Splunk, please visit: http://www.splunk.com/download

For information on how to become a Splunk Partner, please visit: http://www.splunk.com/partners

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA Corporation is the top system integration company in Japan, with a long record of accomplishments in large-scale system integration, network service and other areas. http://www.nttdata.co.jp/en/index.html

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 900 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 300,000 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, and F5 Networks are driving new business with innovative products powered by Splunk. Download your own free copy today at http://www.splunk.com.

For more information, please contact:

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

]]> Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:55:13 +0800 /company/2785 Uncategorized Splunk IT Search Adds Silver Lining to Cloud Computing SAN FRANCISCO – December 18, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced that leading next generation technology companies, including Coghead, Elastra, GoGrid, Mashery, and RightScale, have deployed Splunk IT Search to strengthen their offerings and reliably deliver services, applications, platforms and infrastructure, via the cloud. Splunk IT Search delivers critical infrastructure management and reporting, allowing end users and cloud providers to prosper through managing available resources and reliably delivering on their service level agreements.

As end users scale out their infrastructures with the cloud, they are turning to Splunk to manage, secure and audit the environment, pushing cloud providers to focus on the operational efficiency of their own infrastructures and ensuring an overall reliable computing environment. In addition to promoting cloud computing reliability, these Splunk customers have been able to migrate to the cloud quickly, taking full advantage of the flexibility of IT Search.

"Information provided by the Splunk IT Search Platform is vital for managing mission critical applications on the cloud," said Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and Founder, RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management. "By integrating Splunk’s offering with our cloud management platform, we are able to provide our customers with the information they need to manage standard operational jobs like troubleshooting, enhancing security, and compliance log management as well as valuable insights into their users’ interaction and relevant business trends."

Splunk customer and the leading provider of enterprise cloud application management software, Elastra, is using IT Search in the cloud to facilitate its enterprise-grade application delivery automation, "Our customers rely on Elastra’s products to rapidly configure, deploy and manage enterprise application systems in public and private computing clouds, so it is essential that we provide clear visibility and seamlessly delivery of their applications in this dynamic environment. Splunk IT Search helps us make this happen," said Stuart Charlton, chief software architect, Elastra.

While cloud computing offers great efficiencies and improved economies of scale, it opens up a new set of infrastructure management challenges including availability, security, policy and support. As more and more companies move to the cloud they encounter the struggle of using incumbent tools to monitor and measure these transient environments. Unfortunately, traditional monitoring and management tools were not designed for the cloud and lack the capabilities needed to keep up with dynamic environments. Splunk’s ability to provide insight into rapidly changing IT infrastructures enables end users and cloud providers to detect anomalies, ensure service levels and identify risks quickly. In addition, the simplicity and flexibility of IT Search makes the transition to the cloud fast and straightforward, fundamentally changing how cloud-based technology providers deliver and end-users adopt these infrastructures.

"Traditional IT management and monitoring tools have a hard enough time keeping up with yesterday's infrastructures," said Erik Swan, chief technology officer and co-founder, Splunk. "That's why the leading cloud providers are turning to Splunk IT Search to deliver the visibility their customers need into critical security, compliance and operational data. The ability to turn logs, metrics, configurations, messages, and alerts from across any IT infrastructure, including the cloud, into actionable information has made Splunk a necessary ingredient for any cloud provider."

Splunk's next generation technology customers represent a list of leaders in the cloud service provider space:

  • Coghead empowers tech-savvy business people to develop applications for common business problems. By combining the benefits of zero infrastructure, drag and drop tools, powerful development features and more, Coghead is changing the app development game. Coghead's support team uses Splunk IT Search to reduce the number of case escalations and help developers troubleshoot applications more effectively. Coghead is also using Splunk to manage and properly resource its virtualized environment.
  • Elastra is the leading provider of software for designing, deploying and managing Enterprise application systems in public and private compute clouds. Elastra is using Splunk IT Search for application availability and troubleshooting.
  • GoGrid is the leading cloud computing, hosted, Internet service that delivers true "Control in the Cloud" by enabling system administrators, developers, IT professionals and SaaS (Software as a Service) vendors to create, deploy, and control load balanced cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root/administrator access via an intuitive, Web interface or API. Customers who use Splunk-enabled servers within the GoGrid cloud enjoy robust resource and troubleshooting analysis.
  • Mashery is a leading provider of API management services, giving companies all the ingredients required to get Web Services up-and-running quickly, easily and successfully while ensuring that they will scale. Mashery uses Splunk IT Search to properly resource and manage its customers' installations across traditional, cloud and virtualized environments.
  • RightScale is the leader in cloud computing management. RightScale’s Cloud Management Platform delivers the power of cloud computing, while maintaining complete IT control and transparency. With over 250,000 servers launched, RightScale is committed to making it easy to deploy and manage mission critical applications, regardless of deployment size or complexity, across multiple clouds. RightScale is using Splunk to help manage standard operational jobs like troubleshooting, enhancing security, and compliance log management.

To download a free copy of Splunk, please visit: http://www.splunk.com/download

For information on how to become a Splunk Partner, please visit: http://www.splunk.com/partners

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, and F5 Networks are driving new business with innovative products powered by Splunk. Download your own free copy today at http://www.splunk.com.

For more information, please contact:

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

Michael Wilde
Director, Splunk Associate Program
Splunk, Inc.
1-512-524-9742
mwilde@splunk.com

]]> Thu, 18 Dec 2008 0:00:00 +0800 /company/2777 Uncategorized Splunk Named Finalist in 2009 SC Awards Program in US and EMEA SAN FRANCISCO – December 16, 2008 – Splunk Inc., the IT Search company, has been named a finalist in the 2009 SC Awards program for outstanding achievement in information technology (IT) security. Splunk was named in the Best Integrated Security Solution category of the Reader Trust Award competition, which honors best-in-class security products and services.

Splunk was selected in the US and EMEA from more than 1,000 entries submitted in more than 30 technology categories. Winners will be chosen by a panel of readers that represent the circulation of SC Magazine. The Reader Trust Voting Panel is comprised of a cross-section of SC Magazine readership that is comprised of large, medium and small enterprises from all major vertical markets.

"Splunk is among today's most respected security products as chosen by our panel. Security is a key challenge for IT organization and businesses worldwide and our readers recognize that companies such as Splunk are helping them meet their security challenges," said SC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Illena Armstrong.

The annual SC Awards have recognized security's key contributors and outstanding products for more than a decade. As the industry's preeminent awards program, individuals, brands and products shortlisted address not only the challenges prominent today, but also the emerging threat landscape of tomorrow.

"The disruptive nature of IT Search—searching all your IT infrastructure data from a single location in real time—has proven itself to be invaluable in IT Operations, and is now being recognized for providing tremendous value in security as well," said Godfrey Sullivan, President & CEO, Splunk. "Having Splunk's innovative IT Search software included as a finalist in the SC Magazine Awards in the US and EMEA is testament to a powerful use case for IT Search and a great honor."

Winners of this year's SC Awards will be announced at gala dinners and awards ceremonies to be held in April in London and San Francisco.

About SC Magazine

SC Magazine provides IT security professionals with in-depth and unbiased information through timely news, comprehensive analysis, cutting-edge features, contributions from thought-leaders and the best, most extensive collection of product reviews in the business. By offering a consolidated view of IT security through independent product tests and well-researched editorial content that provides the contextual backdrop for how these IT security tools will address larger demands put on businesses today, SC Magazine enables IT security pros to make the right security decisions for their companies. Besides the monthly print magazine and daily website, the brand's portfolio includes the SC Awards, SC Directory, SC Magazine Newswire and the SC World Congress.

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, and F5 Networks are driving new business with innovative products powered by Splunk. Download your own free copy today at http://www.splunk.com.

For more information, please contact:

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

]]> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:45:11 +0800 /company/2774 Uncategorized Splunk and F5 Team Up To Deliver Advanced Search, Analysis and Reporting Capabilities SAN FRANCISCO, CA — November 25, 2008 — Splunk Inc., the IT Search company, today announced their partnership with F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, bringing innovative IT Search and reporting capabilitiesto the leading application infrastructure technology. Splunk and F5 have created Splunk for use with F5 solutions, running on the Splunk IT Search engine. Splunk for use with F5 solutions enables users to meet the complex needs of incident response, threat analysis and compliance and is designed specifically to work with the F5® BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™ (ASM™) and FirePass® SSL VPN solutions, with other F5 product-specific interoperability to follow.

Splunk for use with F5 solutions provides security event search correlation, visualization and reporting for large-scale enterprises and carrier grade networks. With the ability to search and index data from any server, application or network device, Splunk for use with F5 solutions works across all the IT components in complex infrastructures including WebApplication Firewalls and SSLVPNs, providing security teams pre-built searches, alerts and for a more complete understanding of any security threats.

"Enterprise customers demand technologies that validate and visualize the effectiveness of their security solutions," said Mark Vondemkamp, Director of Product Management, Security at F5. "Having the right tools in place to be able to report on threats before they create chaos is essential. With the Splunk application, our customers are able to more easily meet the complex needs of compliance, security alerting and reporting – increasing their ability to detect and respond to threats, and minimizing the risk of disruption, harmful events and punitive fines."

Splunk for use with F5 solutions delivers real-time information regarding security breaches and compliance that empower F5 customers to detect and halt these threats before they become costly or damaging to business. Splunk IT Search arms these organizations with an up-to-the-moment understanding of the IT infrastructure, without compromising access to mission critical systems or confidential data.

"The changing threat landscape in large-scale enterprise and carrier grade networks requires the ability to obtain real-time situational awareness," said Michael Baum, Co-founder and Chief Corporate & Business Development Officer, Splunk. "Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Application Delivery Controller market, F5 is at the center of tremendous critical security data. The combination of F5 and Splunk lets system and security administrators quickly understand new and changing attacks in the moment."

Product Features

Examples of the advanced searches and reports accessible for F5 ASM include:

  • Top violations
  • Top violations by protocol (HTTP, FTP, SMTP)
  • Top HTTP violations by web application
  • Top attackers
  • Top attackers by protocol (HTTP, FTP, SMTP)
  • Top web applications attacked, alerted or blocked
  • Top web applications alerted by IP address
  • Attacks by location
  • Top response codes by web application
  • Top alerted or blocked web application requests by time period
  • Web application requests by method
  • Custom ASM forensics filtering & search

Examples of the advanced searches and reports accessible for F5 FirePassSSL VPN include:

  • Detailed User, Browser, OS and Session Statistics
  • Configuration Change Statistics
  • Failed Logon Statistics

Splunk for use for F5 solutions can be installed as an add-on "application" to the core Splunk application, and can be easily configured to filter and report on any information available in the F5 product log files.

Product Pricing & Availability

Splunk for use with F5 solutions is free (indexing up to 500 MB a day) for Splunk users and F5 customers, and is available for download at: www.splunk.com/partners/f5

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.

The Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

F5, BIG-IP, Application Security Manager, ASM, and FirePass are either registered trademarks or trademarks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. Splunk is a registered trademark of Splunk Inc.

For more information, please contact:

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

]]> Tue, 25 Nov 2008 6:00:00 +0800 /company/2760 Uncategorized Splunk Ranked #1 in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Rising Star SAN FRANCISCO, CA — October 31, 2008 — Splunk, the IT Search company, has been ranked number one among fifty companies included in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Rising Star program for Silicon Valley. The Rising Star award is a special designation for fast-growth companies that have been in business a minimum of three years, and is part of the Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 program. Rising Star rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over three years (2005–2007). This year's Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 program is co-presented by Deloitte, Silicon Valley Bank, Korn/Ferry International, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, Cornish & Carey Client Solutions, and ABD Insurance and Financial Services — A Wells Fargo Company.

Over the past three years Splunk has experienced tremendous growth and hit significant milestones: doubling the number of employees; achieving 250,000 downloads; increasing the customer base to 750; and expanding globally with offices added in Europe and Asia. Being awarded top honors, with a number one ranking, amongst Deloitte’s 2008 Rising Stars solidifies Splunk’s continued progress and the growth of IT Search. New strategic global partnerships and the recent addition of CEO and president, Godfrey Sullivan, spotlight the significant progress made by the company, and further demonstrates the disruptive impact that IT Search has made on data center management.

"Making Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Rising Star is a testament to a company's vision that has resulted in exceptional growth over three years," said Mark Jensen, partner and national director, Venture Capital Services, Deloitte & Touche LLP. "Splunk's leadership team has the right stuff for growth, and Deloitte salutes their accomplishments."

"We're really proud to be recognized at the top of the list, amongst this year's pool of Rising Stars," said Michael Baum, Co-founder and Chief Corporate and Business Development Officer. "At the heart of our success is our disruptive technology, viral business model, and incredibly talented and passionate team. IT Search is fundamentally changing the way complex IT infrastructures are managed, secured and audited for compliance with increasingly stringent mandates. And in the current economic climate customers appreciate being able to do a lot more with a lot less using Splunk." added Baum.

To qualify for the Technology Fast 50 Rising Star program, companies must be incorporated a minimum of three years and have revenues in only three or four years, have operating revenues of at least $50,000 in 2005 and $5,000,000 in 2007, be headquartered within the San Francisco Bay Area (subsidiaries or divisions are not eligible, unless they have some public ownership and are separately traded), and own proprietary technology or proprietary intellectual property that contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues or devote a significant proportion of revenues to the research and development of technology. Using other companies' technology or intellectual property in a unique way does not qualify.

Rising Star companies are automatically entered in Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 Rising Star category. Its Rising Star ranking is based on percentage revenue growth over three years (2005–2007). For more information on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 or Technology Fast 50 programs, visit www.fast500.com.

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.

About Deloitte

As used in this document, "Deloitte" means Deloitte LLP. Please see http://www.deloitte.com about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries.

For more information, please contact:

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

]]> Fri, 31 Oct 2008 6:00:00 +0800 /company/2728 Uncategorized IT Search Is Powering the World's Largest Social Networks SAN FRANCISCO — October 22, 2008 — Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced new social network customers including MySpace, Hi5 and Ning. Hundreds of millions of users and blue-chip advertisers depend on social networking services to deliver secure, 24 x 7 access to videos, photos, music, resumes and click-throughs. The task can seem daunting with hundreds or thousands of servers distributed across multiple locations and time zones. It makes constant availability very challenging. That's why leading global social networking sites MySpace, Hi5, and Ning have deployed Splunk IT Search. Splunk is fundamentally changing how social media companies manage, secure and understand increasingly complex, always-on infrastructures. With Splunk network engineers, system administrators, security and compliance analysts, developers, customer support and help desk staff have an up to the moment understanding of what’s happening and are able to efficiently find and resolve problems to keep the infrastructure running smoothly.

"As the country’s most trafficked site on the Internet, MySpace users and advertisers expect MySpace to be up and running at all times," said Jim Benedetto, senior vice president of technology, MySpace. "To achieve this, our IT operations team works to understand any potential failures before they go into production. Splunk lets us quickly search all of our IT data in a single place and proactively monitor for recurring problems, ensuring our users get the highest level of service and availability."

The IT infrastructure is a complex web of siloed data and troubleshooting is usually managed across multiple proprietary tools spread across the company. Splunk IT Search transforms silos of information from applications, operating systems, servers, network devices and databases into an integrated, actionable index used to improve mean time to recovery (MTTR) and keep critical services running. In the world of social networks, faster MTTR means less downtime, higher service levels, and ultimately more revenue. Splunk IT Search enables companies such as MySpace, Hi5 and Ning to respond more quickly to downtime and other IT problems before their customers even realize there's an issue.

"Downtime for social networks not only impacts revenue, it affects the important reputation of services competing for mindshare. Users rely on these networks for many of their social and business interactions; they expect nothing less than the highest levels of performance and uptime," said Michael Baum, co-founder and chief corporate and business development officer, Splunk. "Social networking is a highly competitive market, and constant availability is one of the keys to building online communities," said Baum adding, "The success of IT Search in support of 'always-on infrastructures' is just as critical in social networking as it is in telecommunications, financial services and government agencies. Splunk is helping companies stretch their IT dollars and improve quality of service at the same time."

Splunk's social networking customers represent a prominent list of leaders in consumer networks (MySpace, Hi5), business-to-business networks, and platform providers (Ning).

  • MySpace, a unit of Fox Interactive Media Inc., is the premier lifestyle portal for connecting with friends, discovering popular culture, and making a positive impact on the world. MySpace has nearly 122 million monthly active users around the globe with localized versions in 29 regions across 15 languages.
  • Hi5, is one of the world's largest social networks and a top 20 website globally — with 80+ million registered members in over 200 nations. Hi5 receives almost 50 million unique visitors per month.
  • Ning provides an online platform for creating individual social networks on particular topics or interests of a user's choosing. Ning has over 500,000 social networks with a growth of over 2,000 new networks being created per day.

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 fueled 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:

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

]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 6:00:00 +0800 /company/2720 Uncategorized Vodafone Portugal Uses Splunk to Speed Up Incident Response and Problem Resolution SAN FRANCISCO — October 21, 2008 — Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced that Vodafone Portugal, a leading Portuguese telecommunications provider, has successfully deployed Splunk to support its Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) business with remarkable results.

In its search for operational excellence and continuous improvement, Vodafone Portugal adopted Splunk to speed up incident response and problem resolution, provide transaction assurance, and access business information related to customer complaints and quality of service delivery. Splunk collects all the logs from their MMS infrastructure, indexes the data, and provides the information access, reports, and alerts that the IT team needs to quickly analyze and resolve customer issues and debug system problems.

"The deployment of Splunk was combined with the implementation of adequate issue-resolution procedures, and it resulted in the number of escalated incidents being reduced by 90 percent," said Paulo Carvalho, Network Services Support Manager for Vodafone Portugal. He highlights Splunk’s ability to consolidate logs from disparate systems into a single view, which enables more efficient support processes. "Our time to problem resolution has dropped by 67 percent," said Carvalho. "As a result of our current success with Splunk, Vodafone Portugal is therefore considering the adoption of Splunk to manage other services."

"Vodafone Portugal stands out as the most innovative and customer-centric operator in the highly competitive Portuguese market," said Steve Sommer, VP Marketing, Splunk. "We are very pleased Vodafone Portugal is using Splunk to contribute to a more efficient IT operation and an improved customer experience, Vodafone typifies Splunk customers who quickly deploy and achieve rapid payback, and then expand their use of Splunk to other parts of their business."

One of the benefits of Splunk is the integration of all the IT infrastructure logs into a single, easily searchable system, which helps Vodafone Portugal improve service levels by better understanding thresholds and norms for transactions. If thresholds are exceeded, Vodafone Portugal IT staff can proactively act to avoid potential downtime and other potential problems. In addition to the benefits for IT operations, Vodafone Portugal is also using Splunk for security and compliance with privacy regulations, such as tracking the access to confidential information.

About Vodafone Portugal

Vodafone Portugal is part of the Vodafone Group, the world's leading international mobile communications group. Vodafone Portugal focuses on delivering total communications solutions to its more than five million customers and has a leadership position in terms of innovation, brand image and customer satisfaction in Portugal. Visit Vodafone Portugal’s website at http://www.vodafone.pt.

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:

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

]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2008 9:00:00 +0800 /company/2715 Uncategorized Splunk Continues Momentum in Q3 — Adds 120 New Customers SAN FRANCISCO — October 15, 2008 — Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced results for the third quarter of 2008 ending September 30. The company added 120 new customers and upgraded 41 existing customer deployments to higher data indexing levels. The most active industries contributing to the quarter were online services, telecommunications and education. New customers include General Electric, eBay, Magna International, and LinkedIn.

This quarter also brought the appointment of Splunk's new President and CEO Godfrey Sullivan, former President and CEO of Hyperion Solutions. The addition of Mr. Sullivan comes at a time when Splunk is expanding all aspects of its business. In addition to expanding its North American operations, Splunk reached 60 customers in EMEA and appointed Brian Haynes as Vice President Sales, EMEA. During the quarter Splunk added three new Asia-Pacific resellers — Systex, Unixpac and Digital Networks Australia (DNA). The Systex agreement covers distributor rights across 8 Asian countries including dedicated sales, marketing and support people focused on building Splunk’s Asian business. The three new partners bring Splunk's global ecosystem of OEMs, systems integrators, VARs and managed service providers to over 50.

The third quarter also saw the introduction of Splunk for VMware™, extending Splunk's powerful IT Search capabilities to include indexing of VMware’s virtual infrastructure data. Now IT professionals can easily get real-time visibility across their IT infrastructures including virtual environments.

"In addition to adding this quarter significant new customers such as GE, eBay and Magna International, we added to our list of global partnerships, and launched a new product," said Godfrey Sullivan, President and CEO, Splunk. "The value Splunk customers derive from IT Search is the driving force behind our success and the key to our future growth, regardless of the geography or adverse economic conditions," said Sullivan.

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 fueled 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:

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

]]> Tue, 14 Oct 2008 9:00:00 +0800 /company/2698 Uncategorized Splunk and Systex Sign Strategic Partnership with Major Resource Investment SAN FRANCISCO and TAIPEI — October 6, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company, and Systex , 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 fueled 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

]]> Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:31:25 +0800 /company/2682 Uncategorized Splunk Steps Up to Meet European Demand with Appointment of Brian Haynes as Vice President EMEA LONDON — 2nd October, 2008 — Splunk (www.splunk.com), the IT Search company, today announces the appointment of Brian Haynes as Vice President Sales in the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region. The appointment of Haynes follows Splunk's continued and exceptional growth — in Q2 alone Splunk added 94 new customers and upgraded 45 existing customer to higher data indexing levels. The company ended Q2 with more than 750 enterprise, service provider and government agency customers worldwide, including more than 60 in EMEA.

"Expanding the tremendous success of Splunk in the UK and the rest of Europe is a critical part of our growth strategy," says Godfrey Sullivan, President and CEO, Splunk. "The combination of Brian's experience, the Splunk brand and our leading IT Search technology will continue to accelerate our business throughout the region."

As Vice President Sales, EMEA, Haynes is responsible for further accelerating Splunk's growth in the European market. Haynes joins Splunk having held senior management positions at EMC/Legato and CA/Wily. At Legato Sytems, which was acquired by EMC in 2003, he held the role of VP Northern EMEA. During his time there, Haynes was part of an EMEA start-up team that took Legato Systems EMEA from virtually zero annual revenue to circa £70 million. He started his managerial career at Logitek, one of the UK's largest publicly quoted distribution companies at the time.

Commenting on his appointment, Haynes responded, "Splunk has experienced exceptional growth in the US and the talented team that we're buiIding in EMEA will seek to replicate this success on this side of the pond. In all my years of working in IT, I’ve never encountered a product as easy to deploy or one that delivers such immediate value."

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 fueled 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:

Steve Douthwaite / Alex Pullin
Rocket PR
08453 707 024
steve@rocketcomms.net / alexp@rocketcomms.net

]]> Thu, 2 Oct 2008 0:00:00 +0800 /company/2671 Uncategorized Splunk Tames the Chaos Brought on by Virtualization SAN FRANCISCO – September 9, 2008 – Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced the immediate availability of Splunk for VMware™ Management which offers extended management capabilities for VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure. The application provides IT professionals in charge of managing complex virtual environments with the only approach that easily crosses the boundaries of traditional IT systems and the virtual infrastructure.

Splunk’s powerful IT Search delivers a comprehensive view of the entire IT infrastructure in real-time, not only from ESX and VirtualCenter, but also from the server, guest operating systems, applications, and network. VMware ESX partitions servers into multiple virtual machines, and VirtualCenter helps manage the virtual machines.

"Splunk indexes in real time the highly transient information in VM environments, enabling users to achieve higher availability and service levels, faster troubleshooting, proactive debugging, as well as increased security and compliance," said Splunk customer Damian Murdoch, of Technical Architecture Solutions, a VMware consulting company.

"In May of 2008 we announced our commitment to take on the chaos created by a virtualized computing environment. With our new application specifically for VMware, Splunk enables IT staff to collect, analyze and report on data across their entire infrastructure—including virtualized environments," said Christina Noren, VP Product Management of Splunk. "Only by consolidating all the logs and information across the infrastructure can IT professionals effectively manage their computing environments."

The promise of increased efficiency and cost savings inherent in server virtualization has many IT professionals planning or starting virtual implementations. Existing system management tools were not designed to handle the dynamic nature of virtualization. The Splunk for VMware Management application includes a VMware API for data input, over 25 pre-defined searches, alerts, reports and dashboards specifically designed to monitor key metrics for the VMware Virtual Infrastructure.

RedMonk industry analyst Michael Cote stated, "Virtualized data centers have grown by leaps and bounds and are continuing to do so. Tools to manage virtualized servers haven't grown at the same clip, and having an IT search tool that consolidates physical and virtual management into a more unified view is especially welcome."

Splunk supports all management use cases throughout the virtualization deployment lifecycle - virtualization planning, workload optimization, performance monitoring, root cause analysis and log management.

Product Pricing & Availability

Users can download Splunk and the Splunk for VMware application for free from http://www.splunk.com/goto/vmware.


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

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


www.splunk.com ]]> Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:13:58 +0800 /company/2602 Uncategorized Splunk Launches 2008 SysAdmin of the Year Awards

SAN FRANCISCO--Sept. 9, 2008--Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced the opening of the 2008 SysAdmin of the Year (SAOTY) awards. SAOTY is back to shine the spotlight on the technical and unsung superheroes of an organization--the men and women that work tirelessly behind the scenes to troubleshoot, resolve issues, fight fires, and keep the day-to-day businesses running smoothly. The third annual Splunk-created SAOTY contest provides business professionals with a way to recognize their company's network, system, database or application administrators. It's also a venue to toot one's own horn and show everyone how they saved the day.

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/

    9. 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 Godfrey Sullivan, former Hyperion CEO, Joins Splunk as CEO

    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 Gala Coral Triumphs Over PCI Compliance with Splunk

    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 Splunk Sails Into 2009 With Record-Setting Quarter

    SAN FRANCISCO —January 28, 2009 — Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced record results for the fourth quarter and year, ending December 31, 2008. The record-setting year witnessed a year-over-year growth rate of 85% capped by the best quarter in company history. In combination with this explosive growth, the company announced 143 new customers and over 42,000 downloads in Q4 2008, increasing the customer count to over 900 enterprise, service provider and government customers using IT Search to troubleshoot network outages, investigate security incidents, and drive compliance. Customer growth was distributed across all geographies and market sectors, including prominent customers such as Thomson Reuters (Global - Financial Services and Media), Live Nation (Global - Entertainment), Jamba Juice Company (North America – Food Service), Otto GmbH & Co KG (the world’s largest mail order company), and the University of California, Berkeley (North America – EDU).

    Accomplishments during the fourth quarter also included two prestigious industry awards and noteworthy press coverage. Splunk was ranked number one in Deloitte’s "Technology Fast 50 Rising Star" awards for its rapid growth. In addition, Splunk was named a finalist in the SC Magazine Awards in the category for "Best Integrated Security Solution." Rounding out 2008, Splunk was honored to be named by ZDNet as "One of the Top 10 Most Influential Biztech Products of 2008."

    The record-setting quarter included a partnership with F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. The Splunk and F5 partnership brings the disruptive IT Search and reporting capabilities of Splunk together with the leading application delivery technology of F5. Splunk for use with F5 solutions enables users to meet the complex needs of incident response, threat analysis and compliance and is designed specifically to work with the F5® BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™ (ASM™) and FirePass® SSL VPN solutions. Integration capabilities with these F5 solutions are now available as free downloads, with other F5 product-specific interoperability to follow.

    In addition to the long list of fourth quarter achievements, Splunk expanded product platform support to support all current Windows® platforms including the 64 bit editions of Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2008.

    Splunk’s continued growth extended to its team as well, with the company more than doubling its number of employees worldwide in 2008. In the fourth quarter, Sheren Bouchakian joined as Vice President of Human Resources. Bouchakian has over 17 years experience in HR, including previous experience at Jefferson Insurance Group and Alliance Capital Management. In her new role, she is responsible for all HR functions in building the Splunk global team.

    "In the midst of the current economic environment, we are thrilled to close 2008 with a record-setting year and quarter," said Godfrey Sullivan, President and CEO of Splunk. "Our success is attributed to the value our customers achieve using IT Search to make their IT operations more efficient. Splunk customers gain complete visibility into their IT infrastructure that was previously unattainable and use this insight to achieve substantial operational efficiencies, drive security, and meet their service level agreements. As we move into 2009, our ability to deliver and advance upon this technology will only strengthen our position in the marketplace."

    Key Company Accomplishments:

    • Best quarter in company history (+68% vs. Q4 '07)
    • Year over year growth of 85%
    • 143 new customers in Q4
    • 411 new customers in 2008 (+88% vs. 2007)
    • Added strategic partner: F5 Networks
    • Winner Deloitte Fast 50 Rising Star Award
    • Finalist SC Magazine Awards: Best Integrated Security Solution
    • Named on ZDNet: 10 Most Influential Biztech Products of 2008
    • Support for all current Windows® platforms incl. 64 bit Windows Vista®/Windows Server® 2008
    • 29 Customers in the Fortune 100

    About Splunk

    Splunk is the IT Search company radically changing the way organizations manage their IT infrastructures. Only Splunk enables you to search, analyze, monitor and report on data from any application, server or network device in real time to troubleshoot application outages, investigate security incidents, meet compliance requirements, and more, in minutes instead of hours or days. Over 900 enterprises, government organizations and service providers, and more than 300,000 users, use Splunk to achieve higher availability, investigate security incidents in record time, and realize new levels of IT operational efficiency. Partners such as BT and Cisco and over 50 OEM, System Integrator, Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners are driving new business and fueling their offerings with IT Search. Download your own free copy of Splunk today at http://www.splunk.com.

    For more information, please contact:

    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

    ]]>     Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:47:21 +0800 /company/2534 Uncategorized Splunk and i-Secure Announce Agreement To Deliver Managed Security Services In Thailand 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     Splunk Takes On the Chaos of Server Virtualization 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     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 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     BT and Splunk To Bring Managed Log Retention to Customers 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     Splunk IT Search Wins Best of Interop 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     Splunk for Change Management Brings Integrated Change Audit, Detection and Validation 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     Splunk for Windows Application Delivers First Complete Picture of IT Data to Windows Environments 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     Splunk Hits Q1 Sales Forecast; Launches Splunk for PCI Compliance App and Developer API 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     Splunk Introduces The World’s First IT Data Platform 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     Splunk Accelerates, Beats Q4 and Annual 2007 Forecasts 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     Splunk Announces Winner of 2007 SysAdmin of the Year Award 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 has won the 2007 SysAdmin of the Year (SAOTY) contest. Chosen from five thousand nominations for his tireless support of hundreds of Alaska’s law enforcement agencies, Matt was awarded the grand prize including a $5000 Splunk license, an Apple MacBook Pro laptop, an all expense-paid trip to LISA, and a Gibson Explorer guitar. The award will be presented during the LISA Conference in Dallas on Wednesday, November 14, at 5:30pm CST, during the conference that runs from November 11 – 16, 2007. See all the winners at www.sysadminoftheyear.com.

    The second annual Splunk-created SAOTY contest provides business professionals with a way to recognize their company’s network, system, database or application administrators. Winners of the awards were evaluated by a panel of representatives from the sponsoring organizations and other IT professionals based on the merits of administrator responsibilities, workplace attitude, how far they went above and beyond the call of duty, and acknowledgment by peers as a valuable member of the team, company or organization.

    "As a company that works hard to make a system administrator’s job easier, Splunk knows first-hand how challenging and thankless their jobs can be," said Patrick McGovern, vice president, community and marketing at Splunk. "With more than 5000 nominations in its second year running, SAOTY is a wild success. It’s providing more and more people with the opportunity to recognize their peers for the heroic, selfless acts that make companies and organizations run smoothly year-round."

    Nominated by his supervisor at the Alaska Department of Public Safety, Matt is a network administrator who leads a three-person network support staff responsible for meeting the IT needs of more than 850 users at 70 sites. Hundreds of other law enforcement agencies, including the Alaska State Troopers, connect directly to a network of more than 80 servers that Matt and his team maintain at multiple sites. As the lead technical resource for network security, network management and monitoring, server virtualization and technology evaluations, among other duties, Matt also finds time to mentor in-house teams of application developers and junior staff, as well as support everyone from the troopers to the Commissioner.

    "I’ve worked with dozens of system administrators in many settings over the years and Matt has the best combination of skills and dedication to his users," said Lance Ahern, IT Manager, Alaska Department of Public Safety. "Being a part of a law enforcement agency is a difficult and often stressful task to which Matt dedicates long hours. He is beyond rock star – there is no ego. He always handles himself well and takes the time to understand the business requirements and issues at hand. Above all, he understands how dependent the Alaska law enforcement community is on his skills and is always willing to go the extra mile."

    "I was so surprised to learn I had won this award," said SysAdmin of the Year Matt Timken of the Alaska Department of Public Safety. "Things are changing – more and more sysadmins are gaining recognition for their achievements. But, this isn’t just a one-man job. If it was, we’d never get anything done so I wish that all of my co-workers could get equal recognition for the long hours they spend in the trenches ensuring services are up."

    Additional SysAdmins Honored

      Three Runners-Up received an Apple iPhone
    • Hank Arnold of Hospice
    • Wes Craig of University of Michigan
    • Ryan Langseth of InvisiMax

      • Ten Honorable Mentions received a case of Red Bull
    • Jason Boyer of EchoStorm
    • Brad Myers of ADNET Systems
    • Sonny Sarai of Digital Ocean Marketing
    • James Schwonek of the City of St. Petersburg
    • Jonathan Heller of The Love Botswana Outreach Mission
    • Randy Brogen of CResaPartners
    • Karen Fernsler of NCSA
    • Patrick O’Grady of EM Communication
    • Bradley Heilbrun of You Tube
    • Michael Oberg of The National Center for Atmospheric Research

    All the winning nominations can be seen at www.sysadminoftheyear.com. ]]> Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:26:26 +0800 /company/2116 Uncategorized Splunk 3.1 Adds Form Search and Enhanced Data Management

    SAN FRANCISCO – October 17, 2007 – Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine for logs and IT data, today released Splunk 3.1 including Form Search and enhanced data management. Form Search makes it easy for non-IT people to search the vast amounts of IT data generated by applications, servers and network devices in their IT infrastructures. Enhanced Data Management adds more flexible archiving and exporting of IT data to meet long-term storage requirements and compliance needs.

    More and more Splunk customers have support and call center personnel who benefit from using IT Search to get their jobs done. Form Search lets non-technical users use Splunk efficiently, without needing to understand the underlying technologies in the data center.

    Customers across a wide variety of industries are using Splunk as their primary repository for months, even years worth of IT data. Compliance mandates like SOX, PCI, FFIEC, FISMA and COBIT are driving the adoption of Splunk to automate the collection, indexing and storage of terabytes and in some cases petabytes of data. New enhanced Data Management includes improved archive and export features to simplify the complexity of managing large data sets. Splunk can archive IT data based on time or size and archived data can be quickly recalled by for historical searches.

    "From day one we’ve intimately integrated our customers into the product design process," said Christina Noren, vice president, product management at Splunk. "All this listening allowed us to deliver Form Search and enhanced Data Management quickly. Because we’re so close to the customer experience, new features were scoped, specified, implemented, tested and delivered less than seven weeks after the 3.0 product release."

    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 450 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 125,000 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.

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    Contact: Trisha Ristagno
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8474
    trisha@splunk.com

    Morgan Mauritz
    CXO Communications
    650.462.2969
    morgan@cxocommunication.com ]]>     Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:19:42 +0800 /company/2109 Uncategorized     Splunk Beats Forecast For the Fifth Consecutive Quarter SAN FRANCISCO – October 16, 2007 – Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine for logs and IT data, today announced results for the third quarter of 2007 ended September 30. The company beat its sales forecast for the quarter by 30 percent, and is at 84 percent of its forecast for the year ending December 31, 2007. During Q3 Splunk also raised $25 million in funding, added Microsoft’s former CFO and CIO to the board, brought on an experienced industry leader in customer support and shipped major new products.

    More Customers

    During Q3, Splunk added 106 new customers and upgraded 14 existing customers to higher data indexing levels, bringing the total number of paying customers to 450. The three most active industries contributing to the quarter were telecommunications, financial services and government agencies. New customers include Verizon Wireless, Viewpoint Bank and NASA.

    More Product

    Splunk 3.0 and Splunk for AIX were both made available for general download in Q3. Splunk 3.0 takes IT Search beyond the scope of log management and troubleshooting with interactive reporting of search results, dashboards and personalization and an expanded search language with new statistical and arithmetic operators. Customers are applying these IT Search innovations to security, compliance and performance management. 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.

    More Opportunity

    "We’re seeing new data center innovations like SOA and virtualization attempting to simplify IT infrastructures. In reality every new layer of technology generates more logs, changing configurations, messages and alerts," said Michael Baum, Splunk’s CEO and co-founder. "The pace at which machines generate IT data makes it impossible for humans to keep up. By making it possible for people to interact with vast amounts of machine data, Splunk is changing how increasingly complex computing environments are managed, secured and understood."

    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 450 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 125,000 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.

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    Contact:
    Trisha Ristagno
    415.848.8474
    trisha@splunk.com

    Morgan Mauritz
    CXO Communications
    650.462.2969
    morgan@cxocommunication.com ]]>     Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:07:01 +0800 /company/2108 Uncategorized     New Splunk and uptime software Partnership Delivers Super-charged IT Operations Management SAN FRANCISCO – Oct. 2, 2007 – Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine, and uptime software, developers of ‘up.time,’ today announced a technology and licensing agreement that enables Splunk to be built into the up.time IT operations management solution. Under this agreement, Splunk will license its IT Search technology to up.time as a means to index, search, and navigate the high volumes of events generated during any data center operations.

    The integration of Splunk and up.time delivers unprecedented levels of IT performance and availability management that significantly improves the ability to identify and resolve complex data center problems. The result is better IT Operations through easy proactive monitoring, and extremely fast root-cause analysis.

    "Splunk for up.time is an innovative approach to improving data center management and service availability," said Pervaiz Choudhry, director, business development at Splunk. "This integrated solution lets joint customers diagnose complex issues and determine the root cause of failures straight from the up.time console. This approach replaces primitive – and in most cases non-existing – tools for troubleshooting complex failures."

    up.time monitors and reports on IT services, servers and applications across platforms to detect performance issues and outages. Splunk indexes and lets you search, navigate, alert and report on IT data from any application, server or network device. This partnership allows up.time users to tap into Splunk’s search engine when outages occur, making it simple to track underlying errors in logs that couldn’t otherwise be found. The result is deeper root-cause analysis, simple tracking and notification of security, performance and other audit-related events, and easier detection of elusive problems like J2EE performance degradation.

    "This partnership truly super-charges application, database, and server monitoring to performance levels not available with other IT Operations management solutions. The benefit is clear – system administrators and IT departments can solve complex outage issues faster than ever," explains Alex Bewley, Vice President of R&D at uptime software. "up.time’s integration with Splunk is making our customers very happy, and that makes us excited about this partnership."

    The Splunk Powered Partner Program is designed to empower OEMs, ISVs and technology partners to offer IT Search across availability, security, compliance and business intelligence solutions. By embedding or bundling Splunk IT Search with their products and services, Splunk partners provide the ability to aggregate and mine IT data to troubleshoot, perform root-cause and forensic security analysis, and generate reports for compliance requirements. Splunk is proud to have uptime as a distinguished member of the program.

    About uptime

    uptime software inc. is a privately held corporation founded in 2000 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada and is a premier provider of systems management, server monitoring, and capacity planning technology to the Fortune 1000 marketplace. With clients in more than 30 countries worldwide, it has made numerous innovations in business software enabling clients to experience a Return on Investment (ROI) by as much as 510 percent. Download a free enterprise trial of ‘up.time’ at www.uptimesoftware.com

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    Contact:
    Trisha Ristagno
    415.848.8474
    trisha@splunk.com

    Contact:
    Nick Johnson
    uptime software inc.
    416.594.4605
    nick.johnson@uptimesoftware.com ]]>     Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:13:18 +0800 /company/2107 Uncategorized     Splunk Closes $25 Million in Funding SAN FRANCISCO – September 11, 2007 – Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine for logs and IT data, today announced $25 million in Series C funding led by Ignition Partners of Bellevue, Washington. Also participating in the round were the company’s existing investors August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds. Splunk’s free download business model has put the company on a rapid growth trajectory. The funding will be used to continue Splunk’s rapid adoption in data centers around the world by accelerating innovation, expanding sales and marketing, growing international operations and fueling the company’s partner ecosystem.

    In just 18 months since the launch of Splunk 1.0, the company has added 35 OEM and channel partners, 450 enterprise, service provider and government agency customers and more than 100,000 user downloads worldwide. Customers like Visa International, Verizon Business and The U.S. Department of Justice use Splunk’s IT Search to take advantage of all the different types of machine data generated by applications, servers and network devices. Never before has it been possible to dig into everything happening at every layer of the data center from one place. Splunk is changing how complex computing environments are managed, secured and understood by letting humans interact with terabytes of IT data.

    "The fast growth of our user community and customer base indicates the market for IT Search is huge and the technology has many applications across systems management, security, compliance and business intelligence. We have a deep pipeline of ideas and innovations to bring our users, and expand the footprint of search in the data center. We decided to partner with Ignition so we can go even faster and leverage our first mover advantage," said Michael Baum, Splunk’s CEO and co-founder. "We had a lot of interest in this round from a number of highly respected investors. We chose the Ignition guys for their breadth of experience operating large-scale technology businesses."

    Former Microsoft CFO and CIO John Connors, a partner with Ignition will join Splunk's board. Cameron Myhrvold, founding Ignition partner, will become a board advisor and bring his experience creating the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) to the table.

    "We could see immediately Splunk is disruptive to the existing order in the data center. It's simple, and quick to achieve gains in production environments," said John Connors, partner, Ignition Partners. "IT Search turns the top-down model on its head, and puts the person who has to solve the problem right in the middle of a very broad value proposition. Splunk is addictive – users download it for one thing and quickly realize they can use it for many others. And Splunk is viral – allowing experts in different technology and operational domains quickly share context and knowledge. Splunk is having a major impact."

    This funding round follows Series A investment of $5 million in December 2004 from August Capital and Sevin Rosen, and $10 million Series B in January 2006 led by JK&B Capital.

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    Contact:
    Trisha Ristagno
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8474
    trisha@splunk.com
    ]]>     Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:55:07 +0800 /company/2106 Uncategorized     Splunk 3.0 GA Release Expands IT Search Capabilities SAN FRANCISCO – August 6, 2007 – Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine for logs and IT data, today announced general availability of Splunk 3.0. More than 2500 users downloaded Splunk 3.0 beta, applying IT Search to problems beyond the scope of log management and troubleshooting. New interactive filtering and dashboard features in Splunk 3.0 now let customers apply the power of IT search to security, compliance and performance management. New data input options help customers see further than logs into configurations, messages and metrics across all the heterogeneous components of a modern IT infrastructure. Splunk 3.0 is available for download at www.splunk.com.

    Users who downloaded 3.0 are among some of the most sophisticated technology professionals from the world’s largest organizations across Fortune 500 companies, service providers and government agencies. Response to the latest Splunk innovations, its new features, and capabilities has been enthusiastic. Many of the customer comments and ideas from the beta have already made the Splunk 3.0 GA richer in functionality.

    "The ability to pipe your search results into Splunk's new powerful commands, combined with the ability to construct your own commands with Python, allows for limitless possibilities," said Anthony Spina, senior system administrator, SunGard, Assent LLC (Member NASD/SIPC).

    Tens of thousands of users already Splunk their datacenters to maintain availability, manage security, meet compliance mandates, and gather business intelligence. These users drove the development of Splunk 3.0 by sharing their ideas for features to unlock new ways of using IT Search across the enterprise.

    "Understanding the day-to-day challenges of customers sparks innovation,"said Michael Baum CEO and co-founder of Splunk. "Our community always helps expand the Splunk vision. Solving the problems of the modern datacenter is a data and information overload problem. IT Search isn’t just about logs, it’s an entirely new way to navigate, manage and use IT data from any application server or network device."

    Matt Haswell, OSS lead developer with BT Radianz, was impressed by the new reporting capabilities, "I'm excited about Splunk 3.0 since it now supports our European-based environment and requirements, provides graphical reporting, and the new ability to stream results onto the search page as you scroll down in real-time."

    Splunk 3.0 features include:

    • Interactive reporting: Analyze any logs and IT data in real time with dynamic field extraction, eliminating the need for complex data mapping and set-up. Move seamlessly between unstructured search and structured reporting
    • Dashboards and personalization: Any report, chart, search or alert can be placed onto a personalized dashboard. Dashboards can be shared or private
    • Expanded search language: Powerful new statistical, arithmetic and reporting operators
    • Scripted inputs: Index the output of any shell script or command line actions, greatly expanding data inputs to any data source
    • 64-bit multi-processor support: Improved indexing and search throughput on 64-bit and multi-processor platforms
    • Deployment server: Centralized management and control of distributed Splunk deployments across large numbers of applications, servers and devices

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    Contact:
    Trisha Ristagno
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8474
    trisha@splunk.com

    ]]> Sun, 5 Aug 2007 20:20:03 +0800 /company/2097 Uncategorized Second Annual SysAdmin of the Year Contest Launches to Celebrate the Rock Stars of IT

    SAN FRANCISCO – July 27, 2007 – Today, System Administrator Appreciation Day (the last Friday of every July), brings with it the kickoff of the Second Annual SysAdmin of the Year Contest. Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine for logs and IT data, along with other industry leaders and co-sponsors SourceForge.net, Digg, NaSPA, LOPSA, and USENIX/SAGE have officially launched the 2007 "Is Your SysAdmin A Rock Star?" contest. Bringing much deserved attention to the work of system administrators, the annual contest recognizes superstar individuals for outstanding achievements from the smallest server room to the biggest datacenter.

    "Last year’s first SysAdmin of the Year contest was a great success with over 5000 nominations. It proved people want to recognize the SysAdmins who make their jobs easier," said Patrick McGovern, VP marketing and community at Splunk. We are thrilled to once again be a sponsor, making sure these unsung heroes get the recognition they clearly deserve."

    During the three-month contest, anyone can nominate their system administrator, network manager, database administrator, or other IT professional simply by submitting an online nomination describing why their IT person is a SysAdmin Rockstar, going beyond the call call-of-duty on a daily basis. The panel of judges includes Jeff Bates, co-founder of Slashdot,org, Ted Kekatos, originator of System Administration Appreciation Day, and 2006 SysAdmin of the Year Grand grand prize winner, Michael Beck of Emerging Technologies Group. The contest is open to U.S. and Canadian resident IT administrators currently employed as an IT administrator.

    Prizes will be awarded at five levels:

    • Grand Prize - One winner will receive a Gibson Explorer guitar, an Apple MacBook Pro, a trip to the LISA Conference in Dallas (November 11-16, 2007), and a Splunk Enterprise license
    • Runners-Up - Three individuals will receive an Apple iPhone
    • Honorable Mentions - Ten individuals will receive a case of Red Bull Energy Drink
    • Nominees - The first 2500 nominees will receive a free SysAdmin of the Year t-shirt

    "SyAdmins typically only hear from higher-level managers when there's a problem", said Tom Limoncelli, contest judge and co-author of The Practice of System and Network Administration. "These IT professionals are the ones on the front lines, keeping mission critical servers and applications running. They deserve to be recognized and applauded."

    "Syadmins are rarely appreciated - whether things are running smoothly or not," said Ethan Galstad, creator of Nagios, a leading Open Source systems management tool. "This contest is a great way of showing people the amount of planning, hard work, and quick-thinking that goes into the production and use of system pixie dust."

    To nominate your system administrator, visit: http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com. Deadline for nominations is October 12, 2007.

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    Contact:
    Trisha Ristagno
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8474
    trisha@splunk.com

    ]]>     Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:20:44 +0800 /company/2095 Uncategorized     Splunk Beats Second Quarter Forecast Bringing IT Search to More Data Centers SAN FRANCISCO – July 16, 2007 – Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine for logs and IT data, today announced results for its fiscal 2007 second quarter ending June 30, 2007. The company beat its sales forecast for the quarter by 38 percent, and is at 50 percent of its forecast for the year.

    During the quarter, Splunk added 94 new customers and upgraded 17 existing customers to higher data indexing levels, bringing the total number of paying customers to 340. New customers include Barnes & Noble, Bridgestone, BT Radianz, Catholic Healthcare West, Chevron, Ericsson, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Mapquest, Raytheon, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Quest Communications, Telecom New Zealand, U.S. Department of Justice, Verizon Business, and Vodafone.

    The company also crossed the 100,000 user download mark, a major milestone after only 18 months.

    The Splunk Powered partner program has seen continued growth as well. Three new OEM partners -- Netcordia, TriGEO and Uptime Software, have joined the Splunk family in Q2, bringing the total ecosystem to more than 30 OEM, VAR and SI partners.

    "IT Search has opened a completely new world of information for our users and customers" said Michael Baum, Splunk’s CEO and co-founder. "IT, security and compliance professionals around the world are waking up to a better way of turning the terabytes of data trapped in their IT systems into valuable information to find and fix problems, detect and investigate security breaches and comply with audits, laws and mandates. The more users Splunk, the more applications they find. We’ve really focused on making it is easy to download, install and use for data from any application, server or network device."

    Splunk’s IT Search innovations take advantage of the time series nature and highly unstructured form of IT data. By making it possible for humans to interact with terabytes of machine data, Splunk is changing how increasingly complex computing environments are managed, secured and understood.

    About Splunk

    Splunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. The company’s 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 very powerful. More than 340 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 100,000 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.

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    Contact:
    Trisha Ristagno
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8474
    trisha@splunk.com

    ]]>     Mon, 16 Jul 2007 5:01:47 +0800 /company/2085 Uncategorized     Splunk 3.0 Grows IT Search Beyond Availability to Security, Compliance and Business Intelligence in the Data Center Interop, Booth #254 – Las Vegas – May 22, 2007 – Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine for logs and IT data, today announced Splunk 3.0. The newest version of Splunk adds interactive reporting, dashboards, a more powerful search language, scripted inputs, new levels of scale and performance with native 64-bit multi-processor support and a centralized deployment server. The Splunk 3.0 beta can be downloaded for free today at www.splunk.com.

    New Splunk 3.0 features include:
    • Interactive reporting: Analyze any logs and IT data in real time with dynamic field extraction eliminating the need for complex data mapping and set-up. Move seamlessly between unstructured search and structured reporting
    • Dashboards and personalization: Any report, chart, search or alert can be placed onto a personalized dashboard. Dashboards can be shared or private to a single user
    • Expanded search language: Powerful new statistical, arithmetic and reporting operators
    • Scripted inputs: Index the output of any shell script or command line actions, greatly expanding data inputs to any data source
    • 64-bit multi-processor support: Improved indexing and search throughput on 64-bit and multi-processor platforms
    • Deployment server: Centralized management and control of distributed Splunk deployments across large numbers of applications, servers and devices

    "IT Search has many applications within the chaotic modern data center, so listening to our customers is essential to hone any new innovation or technology," said Michael Baum CEO and co-founder of Splunk. "Our large and growing community has helped us dramatically expand our vision for IT Search, and focus on adding the capabilities critical to new uses and larger deployments."

    Recently, hundreds of current Splunk customers and users have been involved in providing feedback for Splunk 3.0 in an eight city tour that included presentations from customers and partners as well as interactive roundtable discussions about using and deploying IT Search. Customers shared how they are currently using Splunk and how they plan to take advantage of the 3.0 features.

    "We have adopted Splunk as a cornerstone of our security program for a major government agency. It just works. It's stable, scalable and extensible," said John Topp, Technical Director, Mantech. "It provides actionable information that allows my incident response program to function at a higher level. Splunk 3.0's real time interactive dashboards and reporting will give us a level of Global Situational Awareness from my Cyber Threat Environment that has never been possible before."

    In New York, Jonah Kowall, the Director of Enterprise Tools Architecture for a leading financial information services company said, "Splunk has already had a huge impact by making it much easier for people to share information and pinpoint changes." But he’s also eager to upgrade to 3.0. "We're hoping to expand our use of Splunk to new areas such as server configuration management and firewall logging. We critically need many of the new features of Splunk 3.0 such as dashboards and the ability to turn unstructured data into analytical data."

    "Splunk has greatly reduced the time in searching for syslog messages to investigate network issues. This is critical to the availability of our network which supports the trading activity of the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange," said Bill O'Brien, Network Specialist, Chicago Mercantile Exchange. "We looked at traditional appliance-based log solutions but they couldn't leverage our existing server investments. For our network architecture and environment, we particularly liked that Splunk was a software solution and not an appliance. The new punctuation filters in Splunk 3.0 will allow us to have more precise searches for Cisco Syslog messages."

    New applications of Splunk 3.0 include customer support incident analysis and resolution, change validation and detection, fraud and abuse monitoring, business analysis, electronic discovery requests and long-term compliance data retention. All of these applications share the common themes of overcoming barriers in data access, difficulty in analyzing diverse data, and scattered data locations.

    About Splunk
    Splunk is software that indexes, manages and enables you to search, alert and report on logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. More than 300 enterprises, government organizations, service providers and more than 100,000 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.

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    Contact:
    Patrick McGovern
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8410
    patrick@splunk.com

    Christopher Fucanan
    Atomic PR
    415.439.4219
    chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com
    ]]> Tue, 22 May 2007 6:15:10 +0800 /company/2047 Uncategorized Coradiant and Splunk Correlate User Experience and IT Logs

    The integrated solution, available immediately, enables systems administrators, developers and business users to search, navigate, alert and report on all aspects of real user performance data and logs. Splunk/Coradiant provides seamless collection, data integration and workflow between Coradiant TrueSight Real-User Monitoring equipment and Splunk. The solution allows rapid correlation between a multitude of data points to speed the resolution of multi-component problems and improve network, server and application availability.

    "This exciting capability lets us search across user experience data and IT logs in a single step," said Brian Thompson, hosting manager at MoxieInteractive.com. "It’s a dramatic shift in the way organizations operate web platforms."

    "Coradiant provides a unique ability to track and manage the actual performance delivered to online users," said Pervaiz Choudhry, director of business development at Splunk. "Combining IT Search with Coradiant’s end-user experience data gives customers a powerful tool to mine IT data for a range of measurement, reporting and analytics."

    "Integration of Coradiant’s rich user experience data with the complete infrastructure data that Splunk provides gives IT operations professionals a powerful way to correlate the user experience to infrastructure health," said Ali Hedayati, vice president of business development, Coradiant.

    About Coradiant

    Coradiant brings understanding to online user performance. Coradiant’s Real-User Monitoring equipment gives web operations teams the real-time insight into user experience that they need to find and fix problems quickly, and Performance Analytics turns detailed web transaction data into intuitive, real-time visualizations that are relevant across the entire organization. Coradiant’s award-winning Real-User Monitoring and Performance Analytics products are the first choice for customers in all online market segments. See Coradiant at www.coradiant.com.

    About Splunk

    Splunk is software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. More than 300 enterprises, government organizations, service providers and more than 100,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Check us out at www.splunk.com.

    Coradiant, Inc., TrueSight, Web.I , Watchpoints and Performance Cubes, are trademarks of Coradiant, Inc. All rights reserved. Other marks are trademarks of their respective companies.

    Coradiant press contact:
    Tony Tissot, 408-569-5942
    tony.tissot@coradiant.com
    or
    Atomic PR for Splunk
    Christopher Fucanan, 415-439-4219
    chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com
    ]]> Mon, 21 May 2007 11:07:09 +0800 /company/2053 Uncategorized Splunk Wins 2007 CODiE Award

    SAN FRANCISCO - May 1, 2007 - Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine, today announced it has been named "Software Newcomer of the Year" by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Software Newcomer of the Year is a prestigious category within the SIIA's annual CODiE Awards honoring "the best new software or software services company whose product or service has the potential for significant impact on the industry."

    IT Search is a new approach for information security, systems availability, compliance, and business analysis. Splunk's IT Search engine crawls through a modern IT infrastructure and indexes all data logged by applications, servers and network devices across the data center to provide IT with visibility into exactly what's going on in a datacenter across every machine and piece of software.

    "I applaud all the companies selected as winners or finalists in the 22nd annual CODiE Awards," said Ken Wasch, SIIA President. "The software and information industry continues to move at a dizzying pace, and being recognized by your peers for getting to and staying at the head of the pack in such a dynamic environment is a major accomplishment. It is one of the reasons why the CODiE Awards hold such a special place in our industry."

    Winners of the 22nd annual CODiE Awards were chosen from more than 1,197 nominations for the excellence of their products, services, corporate leadership and philanthropy. Judges for the first round of voting included journalists from industry trade publications, technology writers from mainstream publications, consultants and other industry experts. SIIA member companies then voted in the second round of selection.

    This award is one of a number of recent industry accolades for Splunk. In April Splunk won both the Info Security Products Guide 2007 Global Excellence in IT Search Customer Trust Award, and Government Computer News' Best of FOSE Award for Network Administration. In February, Splunk received the Datamation Product of the Year Award for Compliance Software. Splunk also won the InfoWorld 100 Award for cutting-edge troubleshooting implementation and the Computerworld Horizon Award in 2006. In addition, Splunk was named one of Gartner's "Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management."

    A complete list of winning companies is available at: www.siia.net/codies/2007/winners.asp

    To read more about Splunk and download your own free copy, please visit www.splunk.com.

    About IT Search

    IT infrastructure today is more complicated than ever. At the same time, security, privacy and compliance controls throw up barriers to visibility into runtime environments and make it hard to see what's actually happening. IT Search can help make sense of the chaos. An IT search engine crawls through a modern IT infrastructure and indexes all the data logged by applications, servers and network devices across the data center. Splunk turns all IT data into actionable information. Security analysts, IT operations, compliance staff, auditors and senior management can now see across every component in the data center and gain an up to the moment understanding of what's happening.

    About SIIA

    The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 800 leading software and information companies. For further information, visit www.siia.net.

    About Splunk

    Splunk is software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. More than 200 enterprises, government organizations, service providers and more than 75,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Check us out at www.splunk.com.


    Contact:
    Patrick McGovern
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8410
    patrick@splunk.com

    Christopher Fucanan
    Atomic PR
    415-439-4219
    chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com ]]>     Tue, 1 May 2007 0:20:09 +0800 /company/2037 Uncategorized     Info Security Products Guide Names Splunk Winner of the 2007 Global Excellence Awards for IT Search SAN FRANCISCO - April 25, 2007 - Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine, announced today that Info Security Products Guide has named Splunk 2.2 the winner of the 2007 Global Excellence in IT Search Customer Trust Award.

    The Info Security Products Guide Award recognizes and honors excellence in all areas of information security. More than 18,000 end-users and prospective customers worldwide were invited to vote for the products that they trust the most when it comes to protecting their digital resources.

    A new concept for information security, IT Search includes technologies such as Splunk that crawls through a modern IT infrastructure and indexes all data logged by applications, servers and network devices across the data center. IT Search is critical to:

    • Availability to keep services and applications running
    • Security to detect and investigate incidents
    • Compliance to meet new and existing mandate requirements

    Security analysts, IT operations, compliance staff, auditors and senior management can search, navigate, alert and report on logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Compliance forces IT data demands but creates new barriers to accessing critical data. Splunk meets the full range of compliance demands on IT data for CoBIT, COSO, FFIEC, FISMA, GLBA, HIPAA, ISO17799/BS7799, NISPOM, PCI, and SOX without consuming precious IT resources.

    "Security products have continued to evolve rapidly in the past few years and advanced technologies are now making it possible to take a pro-active approach to most security scenarios," said Rake Narang, Managing Editor of Info Security Products Guide. "End-users or consumers of these products have to deal with real-live threats which may differ vastly from lab simulated environments. These users build a strong "Customer Trust" for products that best meet their requirements and therefore also play a key role in the security evolution cycle."

    This award is one of a number of recent industry accolades for Splunk. Splunk won Government Computer News' Best of FOSE Award for Network Administration in April. In February, Splunk received the Datamation Product of the Year Award for Compliance Software. Splunk also won the InfoWorld 100 Award for cutting-edge troubleshooting implementation and the Computerworld Horizon Award in 2006. In addition, Splunk was named one of Gartner's "Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management."

    Splunk's winning product is listed at: http://www.infosecurityproductsguide.com/products/index.html

    To read more about Splunk and download your own free copy, please visit www.splunk.com.

    About IT Search

    IT infrastructure today is more complicated than ever. At the same time, security, privacy and compliance controls throw up barriers to visibility into runtime environments and make it hard to see what's actually happening. IT Search can help make sense of the chaos. An IT search engine crawls through a modern IT infrastructure and indexes all the data logged by applications, servers and network devices across the data center. Splunk turns all IT data into actionable information. Security analysts, IT operations, compliance staff, auditors and senior management can now see across every component in the data center and gain an up to the moment understanding of what's happening.

    About Info Security Products Guide Awards

    Info Security Products Guide, published by Silicon Valley Communications, plays a vital role in keeping end-users informed of the choices they can make when it comes to protecting their digital resources. It is written expressly for those who are adamant on staying informed of security threats and the preventive measure they can take. You will discover a wealth of information in this guide including tomorrow's technology today, best deployment scenarios, people and technologies shaping info security and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent security decisions. The Info Security Products Guide Awards recognize and honor excellence in all areas of information security. To learn more, visit www.infosecurityproductsguide.com and stay secured.

    About Splunk

    Splunk is software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. More than 200 enterprises, government organizations, service providers and more than 75,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Check us out at www.splunk.com.


    Contact:
    Patrick McGovern
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8410
    patrick@splunk.com

    Christopher Fucanan
    Atomic PR
    415-439-4219
    chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com ]]>     Wed, 25 Apr 2007 0:32:02 +0800 /company/2041 Uncategorized     Splunk Wins Government Computer News' Best of FOSE Award for Network Administration SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 -- Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine, today announced that Government Computer News (GCN), a leading government technology magazine, has honored Splunk with the Best of FOSE Award in the Network Administration Software category.

    Over 100 high technology companies exhibiting at the FOSE 2007 conference submitted new products in the annual GCN Best of FOSE Awards program. Winners were selected for outstanding technology advancement and innovation by Lab staff and technology editors from both GCN and Washington Technology. The editors looked for product innovation that gives government new ways to operate more efficiently, safeguard the country, and move the national agenda forward.

    Splunk's IT Search engine indexes and securely manages all logs and IT data. System administrators, developers and even business users can search, navigate, alert and report on logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is already in use at a number of government agencies and major government contractors including the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, Department of Transportation, and NASA.

    This award is one of a number of recent industry accolades for Splunk. In February, Splunk received the Datamation Product of the Year Award for Compliance Software. Splunk also won the InfoWorld 100 Award for cutting-edge troubleshooting implementation and the Computerworld Horizon Award in 2006. Splunk was also named one of Gartner's "Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management."

    To view the Best of FOSE winners and listen to the podcast visit http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/43357-1.html

    About 1105 Government Information Group

    1105 Government Information Group is the leading provider of integrated information and media for the government information technology market. Our comprehensive portfolio of print, online, event, custom media and research products distinctively serves the information needs of the government IT buying team -- agency executives, program managers, IT managers and systems integrators -- across all segments of federal, state and local government. Flagship brands include Defense Systems, Federal Computer Week, FOSE, GCN, Government Health IT and Washington Technology. http://www.1105govinfo.com/

    About Splunk

    Splunk is software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. More than 200 enterprises, government organizations, service providers and more than 75,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Check us out at www.splunk.com.


    Contact:
    Patrick McGovern
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8410
    patrick@splunk.com

    Christopher Fucanan
    Atomic PR
    415-439-4219
    chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com ]]>     Tue, 10 Apr 2007 0:30:26 +0800 /company/2040 Uncategorized     Splunk to Discuss IT Search at SANS 2007 San Francisco - April 2, 2007 - Splunk, the leader in IT Search, will be hosting a hands-on discussion on the challenges of analyzing IT data and the emergence of IT Search at SANS 2007, the largest training event focused on best practices and hands-on skills in auditing, legal, management, operations, and security. Christina Noren, Splunk VP of Product and Support will discuss using IT Search for security investigations using real world customer examples and best practices.

    Splunk customers regularly apply Splunk's IT search solution to solve security issues and conduct security investigations. The flexible nature of search allows IT to easily locate and report on security problems within their enterprise.

    "With Splunk it's much easier to find, correlate and report possible network intrusions and anomalies for investigation," said Kim Halavakoski, Network Manager at Crosskey Banking Solutions, Security and Architecture. "Splunk gives us a network wide looking glass that makes finding ANY discrepancy a lot easier than before! The "show events by time" feature is really good for correlating events across time!"

    Kevin Graham, Director of Networks, Security and Storage at ValueClick, also uses Splunk in his environment. Graham said, "Splunk has proved invaluable in providing a level of confidence when we're working on hardening machines. Before we had the visibility into our environment that Splunk provides, implementing additional security measures took a very long time, as it was very difficult to ensure that they wouldn't impact normal activity. Splunk has allowed us to confirm that our good ideas really are good ideas and to identify what level of coordination is needed before pulling the trigger on wide-scale changes."

    WHAT: A hands-on discussion on the challenges of analyzing IT data and the emergence of IT Search for security investigations using real-world customer case studies. The presentation will include a comprehensive demo of Splunk 2.2 an IT Search engine that indexes and securely manages all logs and IT data in real time. From a central location Splunk can search logs for security/compliance, application servers, network services and email.

    WHO: Christina Noren, vice president of product and support, Splunk, Inc.

    WHERE: SANS 2007, Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego

    WHEN: Tuesday, April 3, 2007, 5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.

    URL: http://www.sans.org/sans2007/

    About Splunk

    Splunk is software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. More than 200 enterprises, government organizations, service providers and more than 75,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Check us out at www.splunk.com.


    Contact:
    Patrick McGovern
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8410
    patrick@splunk.com

    Christopher Fucanan
    Atomic PR
    415-439-4219
    chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com ]]>     Mon, 2 Apr 2007 0:28:50 +0800 /company/2039 Uncategorized     Splunk Extends IT Search Into Government Sector SAN FRANCISCO - March 20, 2007 — Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the IT search engine for logs and IT data, today announced it has launched a new practice dedicated to working with government agencies. The focus will be spearheaded by Richard Moreira, Federal Accounts Representative, and will focus on providing IT search solutions to help government agencies improve the availability, security and compliance of their IT infrastructures. Splunk will be exhibiting at FOSE in booth 1449.

    In addition to being a former Sergeant for the United States Marine Corps, Richard Moreira brings hands on engineering and IT experience to Splunk. Most recently he was a Communication Systems Field Service Engineer in Iraq under contract with Northrop Grumman. Working with Tony Ayaz, Director of East Coast and Federal Sales for Splunk, Richard will be responsible for business development initiatives within the federal government, its agencies, resellers, and systems integrators.

    "IT search provides the ability to dive deep into the complex IT environments running our government agencies and find problems, investigate security incidents and automate compliance reporting," said Michael Baum, CEO of Splunk. "Splunk is already in use at a number of government agencies and major government contractors including the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, Department of Transportation, and NASA. There is a tremendous opportunity in this market for Splunk and we’re honored to have someone of Richard’s caliber join our team."

    "The Government sector is in need of a solution to manage the volume and velocity of IT data in their data centers," said Richard Moreira, Federal Accounts Representative. "Just as in the commercial market, our government’s organizations rely on their IT infrastructure to be available 24/7/365 and Splunk can help them do that. I look forward to expanding Splunk’s market reach in federal and local governments."

    Richard served for 10 years as a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps and received his Bachelors of Arts in Organizational Communications and Marketing from San Francisco State University.

    About Splunk

    Splunk is software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. More than 200 enterprises, government organizations, service providers and more than 75,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Check us out at www.splunk.com.


    Contact:
    Patrick McGovern
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8410
    patrick@splunk.com

    Christopher Fucanan
    Atomic PR
    415-439-4219
    chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com ]]>     Tue, 20 Mar 2007 0:27:01 +0800 /company/2038 Uncategorized     Proofpoint Gets Splunk Powered San Francisco – March 12, 2007 — Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine, and Proofpoint, Inc., the leader in large-enterprise messaging security solutions, today announced an OEM partnership that will license Splunk's technology to power the new Proofpoint Smart SearchTM product. Splunk's IT search technology provides Proofpoint's customers intelligent, high-performance indexing and search capabilities for enterprise messaging security.

    Splunk indexes and lets you search all your logs and IT data in real time. Messaging system administrators can quickly follow the maze of complex component interactions and email delivery problems and automate reporting and analysis of their overall messaging infrastructure behavior.

    "Proofpoint's vision to empower their customers with a real-time, in-depth understanding of large-scale enterprise messaging environments is a great application of IT Search," said Michael Baum, Splunk's chief executive officer. "Email has become the lifeblood of the modern enterprise but messaging systems have a lot of moving parts. Figuring what's happening when problems occur or security threats loom is very difficult. Proofpoint is listening to their customers and together we’re easing the burden to messaging system administration. We’re psyched to have Proofpoint as our newest Splunk Powered partner."

    Proofpoint's messaging security platform provides comprehensive defense against both inbound and outbound messaging threats. Proofpoint Smart Search will make it possible to trace both inbound and outbound messages anywhere in an enterprise's messaging infrastructure.

    Powered by Splunk, Proofpoint Smart Search gives users a 360-degree view of message handling and disposition. Proofpoint Smart Search will offer customers:

    • Real-time processing and indexing and search of all messaging systems logs
    • Ability to trace messages across all messaging components in seconds
    • Multiple reports and views on data: Summaries, Details and Raw log information

    "Today's messaging infrastructures are complex and securing these systems generates an extremely large volume of logging data from multiple, globally-distributed sources," says Sandra Vaughan, senior vice president of products and marketing at Proofpoint. "Our partnership with Splunk will benefit our customers by reducing the amount of time they spend solving message delivery issues and by giving them a birds-eye view of message handling across their entire messaging infrastructure."

    "We use Proofpoint to defend against inbound spam and virus threats while also reducing compliance risks associated with outbound email. Proofpoint Smart Search will be valuable in both areas," said Sharon Finney, information security administrator for DeKalb Medical Center. "Proofpoint Smart Search will empower our IT helpdesk staff to quickly answer the most common email troubleshooting and message tracing requests, without requiring any special training or access to our Proofpoint appliances. It will also help us in investigating compliance violations, identifying outbound email trends and complying with e-discovery rules."

    About Proofpoint, Inc.

    Proofpoint provides messaging security solutions for large enterprises to stop spam, protect against email viruses, ensure that outbound messages comply with both corporate policies and external regulations and prevent leaks of confidential information via email and other network protocols. The company's flagship products, the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway™ and Proofpoint Protection Server® provide future-proof messaging security using Proofpoint MLX™ technology, an advanced machine learning system developed by Proofpoint scientists and engineers. Proofpoint was founded by technology visionary and former CTO of Netscape Communications, Eric Hahn. The Cupertino, California-based company is funded by investors including Benchmark Capital, Bridgescale Partners, Inventures Group, JAFCO Ventures, Meritech Capital, Mohr, Davidow Ventures, and RRE Ventures. For more information, please visit http://www.proofpoint.com.

    About Splunk

    Splunk is software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. Enterprises, government organizations, service providers and more than 75,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Check us out at www.splunk.com.


    Contact:
    Trisha Ristagno
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8474.4208
    trisha@splunk.com

    Christopher Fucanan
    Atomic PR
    415-439-4219
    chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com
    ]]>     Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:42:37 +0800 /company/1246 Uncategorized     Splunk Wins the Datamation Product of the Year Award for Compliance Software San Francisco – February 28, 2007 – Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine, today announced they’ve received the Product of the Year Award in the Compliance Software category by Jupitermedia’s Datamation, a provider of news and analysis for IT managers.

    The Datamation 2007 Product of the Year awards recognizes end users’ and Datamation readers’ choices for achievement and innovation in enterprise hardware and software. The Datamation editorial staff selected the finalists in each category then offered readers a chance to vote for their favorite enterprise products.

    Splunk’s IT Search engine indexes and securely manages all logs and IT data. System administrators, developers and even business users can search, navigate, alert and report on logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. As a compliance solution, Splunk offers customers the ability to manage, alert and report on logs and IT data for CoBIT, COSO, FFIEC, FISMA, GLBA, HIPAA, ISO17799/BS7799, NISPOM, PCI, SOX without consuming IT resources.

    This award is one of a number of recent industry accolades for Splunk. In 2006, Splunk received the InfoWorld 100 Award for cutting-edge troubleshooting implementation and the Computerworld Horizon Award. Splunk was also named one of Gartner’s "Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management."

    To view the Datamation Product of the Year Award winners, visit http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3660631. For Datamation's complete profile on Splunk as the Compliance Product of the Year Award winner, visit http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3662576.

    About the Datamation 2007 Product of the Year Awards

    Datamation has a long tradition of recognizing and honoring the best IT product vendors through its Product of the Year Awards. For the winners, these annual awards are a mark of distinction and symbol of achievement in a crowded, highly competitive marketplace.

    About Datamation.com

    Datamation.com provides ideas and analysis for IT managers and features case studies and trend-spotting reports on the issues faced by corporate computing professionals and also includes daily news and columns.

    About Jupitermedia Corp.

    Jupitermedia Corp. (Nasdaq: JUPM), headquartered in Darien, Conn., is a leading global provider of original information, images, research and events for information technology, business and creative professionals. JupiterWeb, the online media division of Jupitermedia, operates four distinct online networks: internet.com and EarthWeb.com for IT and business professionals; DevX.com for developers; and ClickZ.com for interactive marketers. JupiterWeb properties include more than 150 Web sites and over 150 e-mail newsletters that are viewed by approximately 20 million users and generate over 300 million page views monthly. Jupitermedia also includes: JupiterImages, one of the leading images companies in the world with over 5.0 million images online serving creative professionals with products like Comstock Images, Thinkstock Images, Thinkstock Footage, Photos.com, HemeraImages.com, Ablestock.com, Clipart.com and Animations.com; JupiterResearch, a leading international research advisory organization specializing in business and technology market research in 18 business areas and 14 vertical markets; and JupiterEvents, which produces offline conferences and trade shows focused on IT and business-specific topics, including Search Engine Strategies and Wi-Fi VoWiFi Planet.

    About Splunk

    Splunk is software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. Enterprises, government organizations, service providers and more than 75,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Check us out at www.splunk.com.


    Contact:
    Trisha Ristagno
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8474
    trisha@splunk.com

    Christopher Fucanan
    Atomic PR
    415.439.4219
    chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com
    ]]>     Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:56:29 +0800 /company/1239 Uncategorized     Splunk Demonstrates IT Search for Security and Compliance at RSA RSA, Booth #2649 - San Francisco – February 5, 2007 — Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine, today announced they will be demonstrating IT Search working with top security and compliance vendors at RSA. Splunk will show the power of IT Search to help customers meet security and compliance requirements working with Arkoon, Juniper Networks, IronPort, Proofpoint, Inc. and Wildpackets at the Splunk booth #2649.

    Splunk can index any type of logs and IT data by sampling and learning formats automatically. System administrators and security analysts can search and navigate server logs, firewall events and IDS alerts to investigate potential incidents in real time. Compliance analysts and auditors can review, report and achieve long-term retention of data from every component in the data center.

    Data center professionals know that logs and IT data play a key role in security and compliance mandates and policies. The issue they face is that ad hoc access to the information is difficult to get or often denied to the people that need it and seeing relationships between data from different technologies is often impossible.

    "IT Search used in conjunction with our DX load balancing and application acceleration platform allows customers to see end-user and server response times, in real time, providing more efficient management and troubleshooting, while giving them the ability to track and monitor SLAs," said Satya Vardharajan, product line manager at Juniper Networks.

    "Splunk has made our daily log review a lot easier because of its automated event typing and intelligent grouping of events," said Steve Loyd, VP of Information Technology and Security at Intraware, a provider of Web-based electronic license and software delivery and management solutions. "Splunk’s cut the time it takes for us to do this from an average of an hour a day down to 10-20 minutes most days."

    Add IT Search to Your Solution

    Running an effective data center requires integrating and managing many products and technologies. Powered with Splunk, hardware and software vendors can provide their customers the ability to troubleshoot problems and investigate issues as they happen with their own products and across other vendor’s technologies. Splunk partners can expand their product’s solutions to include:

    • Advanced, real-time troubleshooting.
    • Reduced mean time to repair (MTTR).
    • Improved log management and extended troubleshooting capabilities beyond single products and technologies to multi-vendor installations.

    More than twenty OEM, technology and system integration partners are now part of the growing IT Search ecosystem providing log and IT data search technology to the world's IT environments.

    A 30-day free trial of Splunk is available at www.splunk.com/download.

    To learn more about Splunk Powered partners visit www.splunk.com/partners.

    About Splunk

    Splunk is software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. Enterprises, government organizations, service providers and more than 75,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Check us out at www.splunk.com.


    Contact:
    Trisha Ristagno
    Splunk Inc.
    415.848.8474
    trisha @splunk.com

    Christopher Fucanan
    Atomic PR
    415.439.4219
    chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com ]]>     Mon, 5 Feb 2007 7:15:11 +0800 /company/1234 Uncategorized     IT Search Gains Rapid Momentum San Francisco —January 16, 2007 — Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine, today announced the company dramatically exceeded its business goals for 2006. One year ago Splunk released their high-performance IT Search engine. More than 140 enterprise customers now have their data centers equipped with IT Search and more than 75,000 users around the world, more than 80% of which are Fortune 500, have downloaded the free Splunk software. The company also added 19 OEMs and technology partners to its growing Splunk Powered program. This milestone year established IT Search as a new category of solution for availability, security and compliance in the data center and positioned Splunk as the innovator driving the market.

    IT Search

    Splunk's software, launched in December 2005, is an IT Search engine that crawls applications, services and devices looking for sources of logs, configurations, traps and alerts, messages and activity reports produced by any data center technology. Splunk indexes any source of IT data in real time. With ad-hoc search and navigation any network engineer, system administrator, operations manager, security and compliance analyst, developer or help desk staff can figure out what’s happening anywhere in their IT infrastructure. Any search can be summarized as a report or saved as a live alert. IT Search is critical to availability of applications, servers and devices, detecting and investigating security incidents and meeting compliance requirements.

    The company's most recent release, Splunk 2.1, added enhanced performance and unlimited scalability through distributed search, improved datastore efficiency, solution bundles for common configurations and a developer API to customize, extend and integrate Splunk with other data center tools.

    During 2006, the company also launched Splunk Base, a global IT data wiki. Splunk Base is a free online service that integrates with the Splunk IT Search engine. Through a global wiki of IT events the worldwide community of IT professionals can look-up and share in-depth information about specific events recorded by any application, server or device. More than 10,000 people are already participating in Splunk Base.

    Customer and Partner Momentum

    Splunk experienced rapid sales momentum in 2006, gaining over 140 enterprise customers and exceeding 75,000 user downloads. Customers cover a wide range of industries including e-commerce, transportation, energy, financial, government, higher education, manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, consumer products, consumer electronics, online services, healthcare, biotechnology, entertainment and IT services.

    "Splunk has made it possible for us to quickly report on log exceptions, contributing to our own SOX compliance efforts, as well as those of our customers," said Steve Loyd VP of Information Technology and Security, Intraware. "Splunk has made our daily log review a lot easier because of its automated event typing and intelligent grouping of events. Splunk's cut the time it takes for us to do this from an average of an hour a day down to 10-20 minutes most days."

    See the Splunk / Intraware case study at http://www.splunk.com/customers/1230

    Other customers include: Aetna, BEA Systems, Cornell Weill Medical College, Children’s Hospital of Boston, Comcast, Dow Jones & Company, FAA, Fedex Custom Critical, First Franklin Financial, Fresh Direct, GE Consumer Finance, HBO, NASA, Open Source Lab at Oregon State University, Revolution Health Group, Sybase, United States Department of State, United States Postal Service, University of California at Berkeley, University of Idaho, and Wynn Resorts Limited.

    Additional Corporate Milestones

    • Industry Recognition for Excellence. Splunk earned the following honors in 2006: The InfoWorld 100 Award for cutting-edge troubleshooting implementation and the Computerworld Horizon Award. Splunk was also named one of Gartner’s "Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management."
    • Attracted High-Level Talent and Experience to Executive Team. New members of Splunk's executive team include: Frank Swain, vice president of sales, joined from Wily Technology. Pervaiz Choudry, Director OEM Sales, joined from BEA. Ethan Galstad, creator and lead developer of Nagios and Frederick Felman, former VP Marketing at Zone Labs were appointed to the Splunk advisory board. JK&B partner and industry veteran Marc Sokol joined the Splunk Board of Directors.
    • Series B Funding: Splunk secured a second round of funding totaling $15 million led by JK&B Capital and existing investors August Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

      • About Splunk

      Splunk is the industry’s highest performing IT Search engine. It’s software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. Enterprises, government organizations and more than 75,000 users are achieving higher availability, better security and meeting compliance requirements with Splunk. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds. Check us out at www.splunk.com.


      Contact:
      Trisha Ristagno
      Splunk Inc
      415.848.8474
      trisha@splunk.com

      Christopher Fucanan
      Atomic PR
      415-439-4219
      chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com ]]> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:42:50 +0800 /company/1232 Uncategorized Splunk Unveils Sysadmin of the Year 2006 San Francisco – December 4, 2006 – Splunk, creators of the search engine for logs and IT data, in conjunction with SourceForge.net, Digg, NaSPA (the Network and Systems Professionals Association), LOPSA (the League of Professional System Administrators), USENIX/SAGE, and Bawls Guarana, today announced that Michael Beck of Emerging Technology Group has won the grand prize 2006 Sysadmin of the Year (SAOTY) contest. He was chosen out of nearly five thousand nominations. Michael has been awarded a $2,500 Splunk professional license, a lifetime membership to NaSPA and a trip to Washington, D.C. to attend the LISA Conference, December 3-7, 2006. Michael will be honored with a presentation at LISA on December 6.

      SAOTY is an annual contest, spearheaded by Splunk, providing business professionals with a way to recognize their company’s network, system, database or application administrators. Winners of the awards were evaluated by a panel of representatives from the sponsoring organizations and other IT professionals.

      "The Sysadmin of the Year Award brings attention to the work of system administrators and acknowledges outstanding achievements," said Patrick McGovern, vice president, community and services at Splunk. "Our panel of senior IT executives and acclaimed system administrators received roughly five thousand nominations from industries across the board. Winners were chosen on the merits of administrator responsibilities, workplace attitude, how far they went above and beyond the call of duty, and acknowledgment by peers as a valuable member of the team, company or organization."

      Michael Beck is a system administrator for Emerging Technologies Group. Nominated by his supervisor as well as the president of Emerging Technologies Group, he exemplifies the traits of a model sysadmin with top-notch technical skills but also excels with people as a mentor, teacher and coworker. With eight years of experience, Michael has taken on a broad range of responsibilities at Emerging Technologies Group, above and beyond his job duties. He was described as a "go-getter" who doesn’t have the word "no" in his vocabulary. He has been responsible for the complete build out of two office spaces that exceeded 100+ workstations, all related network infrastructure, security features, and general business equipment. With Michael’s help, the company employees knew they could just "walk in and go to work." His technical knowledge is broad and his work ranges from network administration to email administration, to operations to managing voice communications and mobile devices. He is also responsible for building management and physical security of the Emerging Technologies Group offices.

      "Michael understands a huge range of technologies and puts them together to meet business needs," said Tom Limoncelli, SAOTY judge, system administrator and author of The Practice of System and Network Administration. "Twice he's built out systems for new 100+ person offices with somewhat vague business requirements. Most business people have no idea how difficult this is, and such skills often go under-appreciated. Yet, that is how sysadmins usually operate. Michael is a ‘soup to nuts’ kind of sysadmin."

      "It was a surprise and an honor that the president of the company worked with my direct supervisor to nominate me," said Sysadmin of the Year Michael Beck of Emerging Technologies Group. "I’m excited to have won the grand prize. It’s not common that sysadmins are recognized for achievement. More often we’re associated with IT frustration especially when something goes wrong. I really didn’t do anything special. Like all administrators, I feel I’m just doing my job."

      Additional SysAdmins Honored

      Sean Thomas of True Prism Technologies demonstrated heroic, selfless acts as a sysadmin that led him to be the First Prize winner. In the fall of 2004, the offices of True Prism Technologies burned down when a fire started in an adjacent unit. With less than four minutes to evacuate the building, Sean was the last person to leave the building and rescued the RAID backup server on his way out – all equipment and infrastructure was bolted down in the server room. As a technical team of one, Thomas set up the backup server and got business back up and running. Thomas has been awarded an Apple MacBook.

      Additional prize winners include:

      Runners-Up (3)

      1. Darren Barry of the US Air Force
      2. Micah Anderson of Eggplant Media Workers’ Cooperative
      3. Dawn Lovell of CenturyTel

      Honorable Mentions (5)

      1. Mike Jennings of Rackspace
      2. Nik Keating of Digital Forest
      3. Russ Steffen of Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (US Navy)
      4. Denis Roy of Eclipse Foundation
      5. Justin Hartwell of Yarn Lady

      All the winning nominations can be viewed at www.sysadminoftheyear.com.

      System Administrators Go the Extra Mile for Companies Across Industries and Geographies Nominations for the 2006 SAOTY award illustrated the broad range of skills and traits that make up great system administrators, often debunking the stereotypical characterization of a sysadmin. Many of the nominations highlighted the unflagging willingness of the administrator to go beyond their job description, work at any and all hours and on holidays, and their ability to find the answer to any problem. Many of the nominations spoke of passion and dedication to the work, and keen technical ability, including a strong uptime record, leading to saving the company money and/or time. In general these system administrators are admired for keeping business running smoothly.

      IT departments across all industries, such as the military, government and city/county offices, technology, insurance, education, automotive, medical, and financial services, online services, web design, and telcom participated in the award program. A sample of companies includes: AOL, Blue Cross, State Farm, Charles Schwab, AMD, AT&T, Airforce, US Army, Fidelity Investments, IBM, Intel, Lucasfilm Animation, Mozilla, Red Hat, PayPal, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Time Warner, T-Mobile, US House of Representatives, Verizon, Yahoo, and Yellowpages.

      About SysAdmin of the Year

      SAOTY is a contest inviting business professionals to nominate their company's system administrator to receive recognition and prizes for their outstanding achievements. Any network, system, database or application administrator can be nominated. Nominators are required to submit an online nomination entry form summarizing why they believe the nominee deserves the honor of being named the Sysadmin of the Year. Submissions are judged by a panel consisting of representatives from the sponsoring organizations and other IT professionals. The contest is open to U.S. and Canadian resident IT administrators currently employed as an IT administrator.

      About Splunk

      Splunk is the search engine for logs and IT data. It’s software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. Enterprises, government organizations and more than 75,000 users are achieving higher availability, meeting compliance requirements and cutting IT costs with Splunk. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds. Check us out at www.splunk.com.

      Contact:
      Trisha Ristagno
      Splunk Inc.
      415.848.8474
      trisha@splunk.com

      Christopher Fucanan
      Atomic PR
      415.439.4219
      chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com
      ]]>       Mon, 4 Dec 2006 4:24:01 +0800 /company/1221 Uncategorized       Splunk Shares Expertise By Leading Discussions at LISA ‘06 San Francisco – November 28, 2006 – Industry experts from Splunk, creators of the search engine for logs and IT data, will lead several IT infrastructure sessions at LISA ‘06 in Washington, DC, December 3-7, 2006. LISA ’06 will also serve as the platform for Splunk to announce the winner of the industry’s first Sysadmin of the Year Award. Marking its 20th year, the Large Installation System Administration (LISA) Conference is an annual technical conference for the global community of system and network administrators.

      Michael Baum, chief executive officer at Splunk, will deliver a presentation that will highlight the challenges of virtualization and offer troubleshooting tips within the IT environment. Michael’s presentation, "Virtualization: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," is on Wednesday, December 6 from 4:00-4:40 p.m. ET.

      Splunk, in conjunction with SourceForge.net, Digg, NaSPA (the Network and Systems Professionals Association), LOPSA (the League of Professional System Administrators), USENIX/SAGE, and Bawls Guarana, will also announce the winner of the first Sysadmin of the Year Award, a contest to bring attention to the work of system administrators and recognize their outstanding achievements. The winner will be announced Wednesday, December 6 at 5:30 p.m. ET at the Exhibit Hall Reception.

      Sessions: In addition to Michael Baum’s presentation, experts from Splunk will deliver the following technical presentations:

      "Leveraging the IT Community"
      Wednesday, December 6, 2:00-3:30 p.m. ET
      Patrick McGovern, vice president, community and services at Splunk, will address troubleshooting and leveraging the expertise and knowledge of IT professionals globally to find the solution. Patrick will address a new resource for sysadmins by sysadmins, concepts that made the site Wikipedia a great success, the challenges of building a large IT community/knowledge base, and how to bring IT troubleshooting to the next level.
      "Building a Log and IT Data Infrastructure"
      Wednesday, December 6, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET
      Industry experts from Splunk will be on hand and will provide a Birds of a Feather session on setting up a logging infrastructure. Experts will address data access methods, log rotation schemes, archiving and how to get data centralized with specific deployment architectures. Attendees will learn best practices for alerting on privilege events, monitoring configuration changes, performing ad hoc investigations and what to keep in mind when granting access to data.

      The presentation, filled with beer, wine, and logging, will be located in Washington 1 room.


      Event:
      Large Installation System Administrator Conference (LISA)
      Wardman Park Marriott Hotel
      2660 Woodley Road, NW
      Washington, DC 20008

      Dates:
      December 3-7, 2006

      URL:
      http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa06/

      About Splunk
      Splunk is the search engine for logs and IT data. It’s software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. Enterprises, government organizations and more than 75,000 users are achieving higher availability, meeting compliance requirements and cutting IT costs with Splunk. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds. Check us out at www.splunk.com.

      Contact:
      Trisha Ristagno
      Splunk Inc.
      415.848.8474
      trisha@splunk.com

      Christopher Fucanan
      Atomic PR
      415.439.4219
      chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com ]]>       Tue, 28 Nov 2006 4:02:55 +0800 /company/1220 Uncategorized       Splunk Customer Wins InfoWorld 100 Award for Cutting Edge Troubleshooting Implementation San Francisco – November 15, 2006 – Today, Splunk, creators of the search engine for logs and IT data, applauds its customer, Open Source Lab at Oregon State University (OSL), for being recognized as one of the most creative and cutting-edge implementers of enterprise technology by industry-leading publication InfoWorld. OSL was among 100 companies honored with the prestigious InfoWorld 100 Award for the most innovative corporate IT solutions in 2006. The acclaimed project includes Splunk, the industries highest performance log and IT data search engine.

      OSL provides free hosting for many of the most high profile open source projects in the world: the Linux Kernel Project, the Apache Software Foundation, Debian Linux, Gentoo Linux, OpenOffice.org, KDE, Mozilla and Drupal. The lab’s size has more than tripled in the past 18 months and hosts 130 servers. Utilizing Splunk enables OSL staff to reduce the time it takes to investigate and resolve routine issues. OSL uses Splunk about three times a day to dig through gigabytes of logfiles to get to the root cause of issues. They also use Splunk to proactively discover issues before users experience and report them.

      "Congratulations to OSL for this well-earned recognition as one of today’s top IT innovators," said Michael Baum, chief executive officer at Splunk. "We’re thrilled our customer’s Splunk implementations continue to receive third-party, independent recognition. OSL is on the forefront of using innovative IT solutions like Splunk to manage systems supporting thousands of open source developers worldwide."

      "We are honored to receive the InfoWorld 100 Award for our use of Splunk to maintain our on-demand systems and application availability. We use Splunk on a daily basis along with open source products like GNU/cfengine and Xen,? said Corey Shields, infrastructure manager at Open Source Labs at Oregon State University. "If you're a systems administrator, you need to check out Splunk. Grep and awk give you a ‘fire and hope you aimed right’ interface to finding what you are looking for, but Splunk’s interface gives you a way to 'aim that bullet' once it leaves the chamber."

      Splunk's search software indexes and enables you to search and navigate logs and other types of IT data generated by any application, server or networking device, making it possible to achieve extreme levels of availability, meet compliance mandates and cut operations costs.

      More than 60,000 system administrators, developers and support engineers have downloaded Splunk since its launch in late last year. More than 70 enterprise customers including Apple, BEA, Comcast, FedEx, Sybase, U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of State and Vodafone are splunking their IT infrastructures. The demand for real-time search and navigation through complex mountains of production log and IT data is turning Splunk into a global experience.

      For more information on OSLOSU application of Splunk, please visit: http://www.splunk.com/customers/357

      For more information on the InfoWorld 100 awards, please visit: http://www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=83513

      About OSL

      The Oregon State University Open Source Lab is a global, world-class facility and data center for Open Source Software (OSS) knowledge, hosting, infrastructure, development, and collaboration. The Open Source Lab fosters the development of unique OSS products, as well as directly assists in the development, implementation, and use of targeted OSS solutions for use in education, research, government, and business. By working closely with the OSU community, other universities, governments, and private sector business, the OSU Open Source Lab is quickly becoming a critical worldwide center for services related to Open Source software.

      About Splunk

      Splunk is the search engine for logs and IT data. It’s software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. Enterprises, government organizations and more than 60,000 users are achieving higher availability, meeting compliance requirements and cutting IT costs with Splunk. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds. Check us out at www.splunk.com.

      ]]>       Wed, 15 Nov 2006 8:51:29 +0800 /company/1219 Uncategorized       Splunk Launches The World's Highest Performance Log and IT Data Search Engine Interop, Booth # 844 - San Francisco – September 18, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com), innovator in log and IT data search, today announced the availability of Splunk 2.1. The latest version of Splunk adds new capabilities for distributed search across multiple data centers and geographies. With enhancements to speed, capacity and performance, Splunk 2.1 is the highest performance log and IT data search engine for the enterprise. Splunk 2.1 can be downloaded at www.splunk.com.

      "Enterprises are dealing with mountains of data," said Jasmine Noel, technology analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates. "Finding the cause of a problem in terabytes of data can use up costly resources. Splunk is continuing to set the standard for log and IT data search with faster indexing, real-time search and lower storage requirements, making troubleshooting easier for companies with large datasets across many different systems and technologies."

      Splunk's search software indexes and enables you to search and navigate log and other types of IT data generated by any application, server or networking device making it possible to achieve extreme levels of availability, meet compliance mandates and cut operations costs.

      Splunk 2.1 extends the Splunk core functionality with enhanced performance, new capabilities and features.

      • Higher performance – With indexing speeds now ranging from 20,000 to 120,000 events per second on a single server, Splunk is the world’s highest performance search engine for log and IT data. Unlimited indexing speed can now be achieved by clustering multiple Splunk servers together. Splunk is three to five times faster than other log technologies and log appliances.
      • Distributed Search – Now you can achieve massive scalability across multiple data centers or geographies with Splunk’s distributed search. IT professionals can search terabytes of data a day across two, ten or a thousand Splunk servers running in different locations. Search results are conveniently merged and presented to the user in an interactive AJAX web user interface.
      • Lower storage requirements – Splunk now requires 40% less storage capacity for indexing and storing the original log or IT data.
      • Enhanced Administration – All the Splunk Server settings including new data inputs can be configured a new web based administration interface.
      • Solution Bundles – Configuration packages of Saved Splunks, Live Splunks and configurations for accessing and processing data can be created and shared on Splunk Base.
      • Expanded Developer APIs – C++, SOAP, REST and command line APIs have been enhanced to allow for customization, integration and extension of the Splunk web user interface and the underlying Splunk index and search engine.

        • "Splunk 2.1 is dramatically expanding the ability to indexing log and IT data across the enterprise," said Michael Baum, Chief Executive Splunker. "Our customers see log and IT data as an asset rather than a daunting avalanche of data. With the insight Splunk brings, developers, system administrators, security analysts and operations managers are regaining control of their data centers."

        More than 60,000 system administrators, developers and support engineers have downloaded Splunk since its launch in late last year. More than 70 enterprise customers including Apple, BEA, Comcast, FedEx, Sybase, U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of State and Vodafone are splunking their IT infrastructures. The demand for real-time search and navigation through complex mountains of production log and IT data is turning Splunk into a global experience.

        Splunk 2.1 Pricing and Availability
        Splunk 2.1 is available immediately at www.splunk.com. Pricing begins at just $2,500 per year.

        About Splunk
        Splunk lets you instantly figure out what's happening in any part of your IT infrastructure by indexing and enabling you to search all your logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real-time. The idea was born of our own frustration running some of the world's largest computing environments at places like Apple, HP, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.


        Contact:
        Trisha Ristagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com

        Christopher Fucanan
        Atomic PR
        415-439-4219
        chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com ]]> Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:06:36 +0800 /company/1172 Uncategorized Splunk Appoints Industry Veteran Nancy Leon to Lead Partner Program San Francisco – August 28, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com), today announced the appointment of industry veteran Nancy Leon as vice president of partnering. Leon brings to Splunk a breadth of corporate expertise and proven leadership in strategic alliances and business development from industry leaders such as EMC, Cisco, Niku and SMARTS. Sales and business development veteran Frank Swain has also been named vice president of sales to drive worldwide sales initiatives.

        As vice president of partnering, Leon is responsible for Splunk's ecosystem of partners including applications and systems management, network, security and storage vendors, managed service providers and systems integrators. Leon brings over 20 years of domestic and international experience with a background in strategic alliances, business development and executive management for both startup and public technology companies.

        With the Splunk Powered program, Splunk is already partnering with industry leaders to embed its powerful IT data search into their offerings. With Splunk the partner's customers can easily diagnose and resolve IT issues faster.

        Leon was most recently Director of Strategic Alliances/Business Development for the EMC Software Group where she was responsible for OEM Sales and Strategic Alliances focused on the Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment markets. Prior to EMC, Leon was Vice President of Business Development/Strategic Alliances for System Management Arts ("SMARTS"), acquired by EMC in February 2005. Nancy established and managed the Asia-Pacific Sales Region for SMARTS in 2002, as well as leading SMARTS' Technology Alliance Business Development, working with Cisco, Oracle, Alcatel, Nortel, Veritas, Opsware, Sun, Motorola and other partners. Prior to SMARTS, Leon held business development and sales positions at Cisco and Niku.

        "Nancy is definitely Splunk material and brings an incredible portfolio of business development expertise to the team," said Michael Baum, CEO of Splunk. "With Nancy's leadership we'll build a strong ecosystem of software, hardware, managed services and system integration partners."

        Frank Swain Named VP of Sales
        Splunk also named Frank Swain vice president of sales. Swain formerly led partner programs at Splunk. Frank joined the company earlier this year and brings deep technology sales experience from companies such as Wily Technology and Mercury Interactive.

        Swain is responsible for Splunk's worldwide sales organization and delivering outstanding service and value to customers. The company has already seen rapid sales and adoption. Fifty enterprise customers are currently splunking their IT systems and over 50,000 users have downloaded the Splunk software since the beginning of the year.

        Swain was director of worldwide system integrators and channels for Wily Technology, a provider of enterprise application management solutions for Java and J2EE platforms. Prior to Wily Technology, Swain held the position of global account manager at Mercury Interactive, a leader in Business Technology Optimization (BTO) software and services. He also founded two technology companies, Vicom and United Software. Swain led United Software to revenues of over $4 million and an initial public offering.

        About Splunk
        Splunk lets you instantly figure out what's happening in any part of your IT infrastructure by indexing and enabling you to search all your logs and IT data from any application, service or network device in real-time. The idea was born of our own frustration running some of the world's largest computing environments at places like Apple, HP, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        Contact:
        Trisha Ristagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com


        Christopher Fucanan
        Atomic PR
        415.439.4219
        chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com

        ]]>         Mon, 28 Aug 2006 5:49:34 +0800 /company/1051 Uncategorized         Splunk Receives Computerworld Horizon Award San Francisco – August 22, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com) today announced that IDG's Computerworld, the premier source of IT industry news and analysis, selected Splunk as a winner of its second annual Computerworld Horizon Awards for cutting-edge technologies.

        The Computerworld Horizon Awards were established to inform readers of the most cutting-edge technologies "on the horizon" from research labs and private companies. Finalists for the awards were evaluated by an independent panel of CIOs based on the enterprise IT need the technology or solution addresses.

        "The Computerworld Horizon Awards recognize companies developing innovative, promising technologies which hold the potential to significantly affect enterprises in the near future," said Don Tennant, editor in chief of Computerworld. "Our panel of senior IT executives evaluated more than two hundred submissions from leading corporations, universities and research labs. Splunk was chosen for its unique approach to troubleshooting--applying search technology to IT data to keep the world's systems running and highly available. Splunk joins a select group of organizations leading the industry in developing new technologies that will benefit enterprises in the future."

        Splunk's search software indexes and links together all the log files and other types of IT data generated by any application, server or network device making it possible to search and navigate running IT infrastructures.

        Over 50,000 system administrators, developers and support engineers have downloaded Splunk since its launch earlier this year. Fortune 500 companies, developers and consultants in the United States, as well across Europe, Australia, India, and South Africa, are splunking their systems to troubleshoot problems faster, improve availability and reduce the cost of managing IT infrastructure. The demand for quickly searching and navigating through complex mountains of production IT data is turning Splunk into a global experience.

        The Horizon Award winners are profiled in a special report in the August 21 issue of Computerworld. See Splunk profile online at: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleTOC&specialReportId=9000103&articleId=9002558.

        About the Horizon Awards
        The Computerworld Horizon awards were established in 2005 to inform readers of the most cutting-edge technologies that are "on the horizon" from research labs and private companies. The program is accompanied by an eight-page special report in Computerworld magazine and online at http://www.computerworld.com/horizon. The feature will look at this year's winning technologies, which include Altiris' Altiris Software Virtualization Solution; BioPassword Inc.'s BioPassword; SAP AG and Microsoft Corp.'s joint effort, Duet; HyperOffice's HyperOffice; IBM Almaden Research Center's Business Insights Workbench; Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Tycoon Electronic Auctioneer; Splunk's Splunk; Stanford University's Password Hash; University of Maryland's Oasys Opinion Analysis System, and VMware's VMware DRS.

        About Splunk
        Splunk lets you instantly figure out what's happening in any part of your IT infrastructure by indexing and enabling you to search all your logs and IT data from any application, service or network device in real-time. The idea was born of our own frustration running some of the world's largest computing environments at places like Apple, HP, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.


        Contact:
        Trisha Ristagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com


        Christopher Fucanan
        Atomic PR
        415.439.4219
        chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com

        ]]>         Tue, 22 Aug 2006 5:49:34 +0800 /company/1052 Uncategorized         Splunk Hits 50 Enterprise Customers and 50,000 Downloads in Less Than One Year San Francisco – August 15, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com) today announced that the company has won over 50 enterprise customers and experienced 50,000 downloads of its software in less than one year. Splunk's software, launched in December 2005, is an IT data search engine for troubleshooting IT issues. IT departments in large and small enterprises are using Splunk to achieve extreme availability and cut costs.

        Splunk's search software indexes and links together all log files and other types of IT data generated by any service, application or device, making it possible to search and navigate running IT infrastructures. Splunk offers an enterprise-class version of Splunk with enhanced features and a free version, available at www.splunk.com.

        IT departments across government and vertical industries, such as e-commerce, education, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, shipping, and technology have adopted Splunk. Customers currently splunking their infrastructure include: the City of Prescott, AZ, Cornell Well Medical College, Fedex Custom Critical, First Consulting, First Franklin Financial, Fresh Direct, Open Source Lab at Oregon State University, Revolution Health Group, Paciolan, Inc., Sybase, United States Department of State, United States Postal Service, University of California at Berkeley, University of Idaho, and Wynn Resorts Limited.

        "From the beginning, our mission has been to make IT data more accessible, understandable and useful to the people that need it. We've been successful because we address real problems for our customers," said Michael Baum, Splunk's Chief Executive Splunker. "We've developed revolutionary tools and a collaborative community of IT professionals around the world to help the front line people in the data center who fight IT fires on a daily basis. Splunk is becoming a must have for mission critical applications and services."

        Splunking Across the Enterprise
        Customers splunk systems across many types of IT infrastructure to keep application availability high and servers and networks up and running. Splunk has seen high adoption rates in several key IT areas within the enterprise. Customers are solving critical troubleshooting issues in applications, networking, email and transaction validation.

        Application Availability
        A sudden flood of support tickets, failed web requests, application server errors and stack traces can cause serious application failures. Splunk's automatic event classification, graphs by time and breakdowns by host can quickly cut a mess of thousands of individual events in a short time period down to a small number of unique issues and isolate particular hosts with problems.

        "Keeping our online commerce site up and running is critical and we need solutions that can help us do that," said Robert Reilly, Senior Systems Administrator at FreshDirect, a leading online fresh food provider and delivery service in the New York metropolitan area. "Splunk allows us to accurately troubleshoot application problems faster and more efficiently than anything else, avoiding down time and protecting revenues."

        Server and Network Management
        When monitoring systems or users alert the IT department to a problem, whether it is an issue with a server or a networking device, IT administrators spring into action. But find the problem can often take hours or weeks in a complex system. Splunk allows IT folks to search remotely across all the logs of all hosts or networking devices from an intuitive web-based interface. Administrators can search by time of the alert, review patterns of activity and types of events. By iterating on the search users can more easily pinpoint root cause.

        "Splunk is a great asset to our network, security and application operations," said Eric Yen, Technical Operations Engineer at Paciolan, Inc.

        "Our operations staff uses Splunk to search through multiple log files quickly, and generate alerts in real time. Splunk's ability to routinely report on logs enabled us to meet new log reporting requirements associated with the VISA PCI standard," said Rama Sankaralingam, Web Applications Manager at Paciolan, Inc.

        Email administration and Transaction Validation
        Companies are also using Splunk to troubleshoot difficult problems in email and comply with requests to validate activity using logs. Splunk gets to the bottom of individual email message status in seconds and can quickly locate antispam, antivirus, greylisting, quarantine and actual mailbox delivery events for that message.

        Many companies need to investigate activity logs for compliance or to validate transactions such as trade requests. Splunk can index any kind of event data, including the log sources used for this kind of request such as web proxy, firewall and email logs, and make them easily searchable by keyword in an intuitive web-based interface. Splunk makes this type of research much faster and can even allow compliance and HR personnel to search for themselves.

        About Splunk
        Splunk is a radical new approach to troubleshooting IT systems, improving availability and cutting IT costs. We're making the world’s IT data accessible, understandable and useful. The idea was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest computing environments at places like Apple, HP, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        Contact:
        Trisha Ristagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com


        Christopher Fucanan
        Atomic PR
        415.439.4219
        chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com

        ]]>         Tue, 15 Aug 2006 5:49:34 +0800 /company/1053 Uncategorized         Nexa Technologies Splunks Systems for Higher Availability San Francisco – August 8, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com) today announced that Nexa Technologies, a leading provider of advanced trading solutions and a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNSN), is using Splunk, the industry's first search software for fast moving IT data, to enhance its on-demand system availability and offer optimal transaction support to over 100,000 active retail and professional users throughout North America and Europe. With Splunk's advanced troubleshooting capabilities, Nexa is able to respond more quickly to customer questions about their trades, leading increased client satisfaction. In addition, the IT staff has been freed from the distraction and labor cost of customer support escalation requests.

        Nexa Technologies provides online brokerage and trading applications deployable in any market, language, and currency. To build capacity to manage up to 200,000 transactions per day and host more than 500,000 customer accounts globally, Nexa has implemented 50 Windows Server hosts running custom trading software in a highly secure data center. Todd Boppell, Senior Vice President of Operations, administers the back-end trading applications that Nexa develops and hosts on behalf of its brokerage customers. Splunk helps Mr. Boppell's team maintain the uptime of its applications and servers, and also alleviates the daunting task of searching application logs specific to the status of trade executions. Splunk's ability to quickly index custom logs enables Nexa to quickly search log transactions through a simple, web-based interface. This minimizes the time associated with validating transactions so Todd’s team can focus their efforts on Nexa Operations.

        "It's not about getting information out of the logs, it's about getting the right information quickly and efficiently. Splunk makes this happen," Boppell said. "Splunk helps us take what used to be 20-30 minute jobs, searching multiple log files from multiple servers, to just a couple of minutes searching a single log."

        In another example, Nexa used Splunk to save critical setup time. The company had been using scripts to retrieve files containing all log events for a particular time range that matched some simple criteria. Running the script to retrieve a file for each request took about five minutes to an hour. With Splunk, Nexa instantly saves up to five minutes per request in setup time. In addition, it avoids return trips to retrieve more logs when the initial set doesn’t answer the question.

        "Our customers need a rapid response from us in order to continue executing their trading strategies. Splunk allows us to save as much as an hour per request, which is critical when the markets are open," added Boppell. "Support personnel no longer need to escalate issues to the IT team, saving valuable Nexa resources and improving the customer experience."

        More than 49,000 system administrators, developers and support engineers have downloaded Splunk since its launch late last year. Fortune 500 companies, developers and consultants in the United States, as well as globally across Europe, Australia, India, and South Africa are splunking their systems to troubleshoot problems faster, improve availability and reduce the cost of managing IT infrastructure. The demand for quickly searching and navigating through complex mountains of production IT data is turning Splunk into a global experience.

        Nexa Technologies and Splunk have worked in cooperation to develop a case study. To read the case study, please visit www.splunk.com/r/nexa.

        About Nexa Technologies, Inc.
        Nexa Technologies, Inc. is a provider of online and direct access trading solutions. Founded in 1999, Nexa Technologies is a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. Its comprehensive product set incorporates multi-asset direct access trading systems, FIX-compliant order routing, comprehensive data and market access to European & North American equity, options and derivatives exchanges and ECNs.

        Nexa Technologies added historical intraday time series data into its product range in January 2005 when Penson Worldwide acquired Tick Data, Inc. The Tick Data division, which provides clean, reliable historical intraday time series data for the equities and futures markets, employs proprietary compression algorithms, price-filtering techniques, and ticker symbol mapping processes to produce complete, research-ready historical data. From efficient data collection and distribution to seamless integration with third-party analytical software, the Tick Data division removes the frustration from building and maintaining historical databases.

        Forward-Looking Statements
        Statements contained in this news release that are not based on current or historical fact are forward-looking in nature. Such forward-looking statements are based on current plans, estimates and expectations. Forward-looking statements are based on known and unknown risks, assumptions, uncertainties and other factors. Penson's actual results, performance, or achievements may differ materially from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Penson undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement.

        About Splunk
        Splunk is a disruptive new approach to troubleshooting IT systems. The company was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest data centers, search engines and distributed technologies at places like Apple, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. We're out to make navigating IT infrastructure as easy and powerful as surfing the Web. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        Contact:
        Trisha Ristagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com


        Christopher Fucanan
        Atomic PR
        415.439.4219
        chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com

        ]]>         Tue, 8 Aug 2006 5:49:34 +0800 /company/1054 Uncategorized         Sysadmin of the Year Contest Launches to Honor IT's Unsung Heroes San Francisco – July 28, 2006 – In conjunction with today's celebration of System Administrator Appreciation Day, Splunk (www.splunk.com) and co-sponsors SourceForge.net, Digg, NaSPA (the Network and Systems Professionals Association), LOPSA (the League of Professional System Administrators), USENIX/SAGE, and Bawls Guarana have announced a contest to bring attention to the work of System Administrators and recognize individual system administrators for their outstanding achievements.

        July 28, 2006 is recognized as Sysadmin Day. According to SAGE, a system administrator "is one who as a primary job function, manages computer and network systems on behalf of another, such as an employer or client." The Sysadmin of the Year program aims to honor these folks for their work creating the computing environment that nearly every business today needs to run. With a simple nomination, IT management and other business professionals can recognize their system administrators for the hard work they put in every day.

        "Computers matter more than ever today. If computers are to work and work well, then system administration matters," said Tom Limoncelli, system administrator and author of The Practice of System and Network Administration. "System administrators do many things. They look after computers, networks, applications and security. They are the reason we can do everything that touches a computer, like send an email, make a purchase or even get money from an ATM. I'm pleased to be taking part in a program that recognizes the work that system administrators do, because more often than not, people only recognize us when there's a problem. They don't recognize the hours and weeks of work behind keeping things running smoothly."

        The Sysadmin of the Year grand prize winner will be flown to Washington, D.C. to USENIX's annual Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA) and awarded a license to Splunk Professional. A first place winner will receive an Apple MacBook. The first 2500 nominees will be awarded a Sysadmin of the Year t-shirt. Final winners will be chosen by a panel of esteemed judges, including Tom Limoncelli.

        "As a former operations executive and someone who works closely with system administrators on a daily basis, I can tell you that they spend their days troubleshooting, problem solving and firefighting to make businesses run seamlessly and are not often recognized," said Michael Baum, CEO of Splunk. "Our goal at Splunk has always been to make the lives of system administrators easier. We created Splunk to help make the daily grind of digging through log files easier and more effective. Now we're calling on everyone to take out a moment to pat their sysadmin on the back for a job well done."

        About Sysadmin of the Year
        Sysadmin of the Year is a 3-month program inviting business professionals to nominate their company's system administrator to receive recognition and a prize for their outstanding achievements. Any business professional is able to nominate an IT system, networking, database or other type of technical administrator. Nominators are required to submit an online nomination entry form summarizing why they believe the nominee deserves the honor of being named the Sysadmin of the Year. Submissions will be judged by a panel consisting of representatives from the sponsoring organizations and other IT professionals. The contest is open to U.S. and Canadian resident IT administrators currently employed as an IT administrator.

        Prizes will be awarded at five levels:

        • Grand Prize - One Grand Prize winner will receive a $2,500 Splunk Professional license and a trip to Washington, D.C. to attend the LISA Conference, December 3-7, 2006.
        • First Prize – An Apple MacBook
        • Runners-Up - Three individuals will receive $2,500 Splunk Professional licenses.
        • Honorable Mentions - Five individuals will receive a case of Bawls soda.
        • Nominees - The first 2500 nominees will receive a Sysadmin of the Year tshirt.

        To nominate a system administrator for their achievements, visit: www.sysadminoftheyear.com. Deadline for nominations is October 31, 2006.

        About Splunk
        Splunk is a disruptive new approach to troubleshooting IT systems. The company was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest data centers, search engines and distributed technologies at places like Apple, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. We're out to make navigating IT infrastructure as easy and powerful as surfing the Web. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        Contact:
        Trisha Ristagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com


        Christopher Fucanan
        Atomic PR
        415.439.4219
        chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com

        ]]>         Fri, 28 Jul 2006 5:49:34 +0800 /company/1055 Uncategorized         Nagios Ready for Splunking San Francisco – July 10, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com) today announced the availability of Splunk 2 Nagios, an integrated module that provides seamless workflow between the Nagios project, the most popular open source systems management host and service monitor, and Splunk, the industry's first search software for fast moving IT data. Splunk 2 Nagios is a result of a partnership with the Nagios project announced in February of this year.

        Splunk indexes and links together all the IT data generated by any system, application or device making it possible to search and navigate production IT infrastructures. Nagios utilizes a monitoring process that runs intermittent checks on hosts and services and returns status information to Nagios. When issues are identified, Nagios notifies the appropriate parties via email, instant message, SMS, etc.

        Splunk-2-Nagios provides administrators with the combined power and performance of Nagios monitoring with Splunk’s troubleshooting approach to enable customers to diagnose and resolve issues faster, decrease mean time to repair (MTTR), improve service quality and reduce the cost of incident response.

        Splunk-2-Nagios includes:

        • Real-time indexing of Nagios events and alerts by the Splunk server.
        • Splunk searches embedded into Nagios alerts and notifications.
        • Forwarding of Live Splunk notifications to Nagios for alerting workflow.
        • Nagios plugin(s) for monitoring the status of Splunk Servers from Nagios.
        • Population of Nagios event descriptors and tags into Splunk Base, the global knowledge base of product IT data.
        "The Nagios project is the most successful open source management software out there. Our users have been clamoring for a way to combine their two favorite tools," said Michael Baum, chief executive splunker. "Splunk 2 Nagios is a natural combination that integrates the best of troubleshooting and open source management. Users can now navigate directly from a Nagios alert to any IT data from any part of their infrastructure - diagnosing and resolving issues faster."

        More than 42,000 system administrators, developers and support engineers have downloaded Splunk since its launch late last year. Fortune 500 companies, developers and consultants in the United States, as well as globally across Europe, Australia, India, and South Africa are splunking their systems to troubleshoot problems faster, improve availability and reduce the cost of managing IT infrastructure. The demand for quickly searching and navigating through complex mountains of production IT data is turning Splunk into a global experience.

        Splunk 2 Nagios is available today at www.splunk.com.

        About Nagios
        Nagios® is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external "plugins" which return status information to Nagios. When problems are encountered, the daemon can send notifications out to administrative contacts in a variety of different ways (email, instant message, SMS, etc.). Current status information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed via a web browser.

        About Splunk
        Splunk is a disruptive new approach to troubleshooting IT systems. The company was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest data centers, search engines and distributed technologies at places like Apple, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. We're out to make navigating IT infrastructure as easy and powerful as surfing the Web. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.


        Contact:
        Trisha Risagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com


        Christopher Fucanan
        Atomic PR
        415.439.4219
        chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com

        ]]>         Mon, 10 Jul 2006 5:49:34 +0800 /company/1056 Uncategorized         Splunk Ensures Developers Get Their Open Source At Oregon State University Open Source Lab San Francisco – June 26, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com) today announced that the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) is using Splunk, the industry's first search software for fast moving IT data, to help in its mission to manage systems that support thousands of open source developers worldwide. With Splunk's advanced log file search capabilities saving many man-hours, the lab has been able to maintain staffing levels while still tripling in size.

        OSUOSL was developed to accelerate the adoption of open source software across the globe and aid the community that develops and uses it. The lab provides hosting for the most high profile open source projects in the world, including the Linux Kernel Project, the Apache Software Foundation, Debian Linux, Gentoo Linux, OpenOffice.org, KDE, Mozilla and Drupal. With the rapid increase in open source adoption, the lab has tripled in size over the last year and requires advanced monitoring and management tools to support the 130 servers hosting projects. Seventy of these servers are fully managed by the OSL staff, which is mostly made up of revolving OSU student interns.

        Corey Shields, Infrastructure Manager at OSUOSL, is in charge of computing infrastructure for the lab. Splunk is helping Shields deal with the constantly changing infrastructure and loss of institutional knowledge as different interns come and go. Splunk's ability to deal with any kind of data from any application or device means that OSUOSL can monitor and manage the steady stream of projects that arrive for hosting. Splunk's ability to save searches, Saved Splunks, and Splunk's online wiki of IT event information, Splunk Base, allow Shields’ team to save knowledge for future staff that would otherwise be lost as an intern leaves.

        "If you're a systems administrator, you need to check out Splunk. That's all there is to it," Shields said. While using Splunk to proactively look across his infrastructure, Shields noticed a cron job set up by a developer who had left six months earlier that was running every minute. "Splunk showed its worth almost immediately by helping to find problems I didn’t even notice the symptoms of."

        OSL often receives troubleshooting issues for email both internally and for the projects they host. With Splunk spanning across multiple hosts, Shields and his team can simply start splunking for a user’s email address to find out where an email ended up or if it was ever sent out at all.

        Shields added, "Grep and awk give you a ‘fire and hope you aimed right’ interface to find what you’re looking for. Splunk’s interface gives you a way to ‘aim that bullet’ once it leaves the chamber."

        More than 42,000 system administrators, developers and support engineers have downloaded Splunk since its launch in late last year. Fortune 500 companies, developers and consultants in the United States, as well as globally across Europe, Australia, India, and South Africa are splunking their systems to troubleshoot problems faster, improve availability and reduce the cost of managing IT infrastructure. The demand for quickly searching and navigating through complex mountains of production IT data is turning Splunk into a global experience.

        OSUOSL and Splunk have worked in cooperation to develop a Splunker's Guide case study, for more information please visit www.splunk.com/r/OSL.

        About OSU Open Source Lab
        The Oregon State University Open Source Lab is a global, world-class facility and data center for Open Source Software (OSS) knowledge, hosting, infrastructure, development, and collaboration. The Open Source Lab fosters the development of unique OSS products, as well as directly assists in the development, implementation, and use of targeted OSS solutions for use in education, research, government, and business. By working closely with the OSU community, other universities, governments, and private sector business, the OSU Open Source Lab is quickly becoming a critical worldwide center for services related to Open Source software.

        About Splunk
        Splunk is a radical new approach to troubleshooting IT systems and improving availability. We're making the world's IT data accessible, understandable and useful. The idea was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest computing environments at places like Apple, HP, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        Contact:
        Trisha Ristagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com


        Christopher Fucanan
        Atomic PR
        415.439.4219
        chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com

        ]]>         Mon, 26 Jun 2006 5:49:34 +0800 /company/1057 Uncategorized         Splunk Sequel Extinguishes IT Fires with New Capabilities JavaOne, Booth # 1036 - San Francisco – May 16, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search engine for fast moving IT data, today announced the availability of Splunk 2.0. The second generation of the world's first search engine for fast moving IT data. Splunk 2.0 includes new capabilities for troubleshooting IT issues across complex data center environments, including greater scalability, flexibility and ease of use. The new software can be downloaded at www.splunk.com.

        "As enterprises continue to implement virtualization and automation into their data centers, they're adding more complexity to their existing infrastructure," said Michael Baum, chief executive splunker. "Today's data centers are an intricate web of applications and infrastructure, made up of thousands of components, technologies and services. With Splunk 2.0, we’re enabling the front line folks in the data center who fight IT fires on a daily basis to deal with this complexity."

        Splunk's search software indexes and links together ALL the log files and other types of IT data generated by ANY service, application or device making it possible to search and navigate running IT infrastructures.

        "Rearden Commerce is enabling people and businesses to find, schedule and buy the services they need anytime, anywhere--so our systems are literally the life blood of our business. Splunk consolidates log data from multiple server and application environments into a single console, making it much easier to isolate, identify and troubleshoot issues in real-time. The new data access options in Splunk 2.0, especially the ability to index syslog, log4j and SNMP directly over TCP, provide us with new levels of information about our infrastructure." said Chris McDaniel, director of network operations at Rearden Commerce." Splunk has already significantly reduced our time spent on troubleshooting, and with the new release we’re combining server operating data with application logs and network data to gain a better real-time understanding of what is happening across our infrastructure."

        Splunk 2.0 extends the Splunk core functionality with new capabilities.

        • Expanded real-time data access options including mounted and remote files, FIFO queues, network ports via UDP/TCP, syslog, log4j, database tables with ODBC, Windows event logs and Windows files.
        • Splunk-2-Splunk enables a variety of flexible deployment options. Multiple copies of Splunk can now work together enabling data access, processing and indexing to be partitioned across multiple hosts for larger, more complex environments and greater scalability.
        • An advanced user interface streamlines the Splunk user experience, empowering users to control the density and content of search results and have better visibility into event types, sources, source types and hosts. This added functionality also adds richer presentation and more export options for search results and report output.
        • Splunk Base is now enhanced with powerful new wiki editing capabilities allowing log samples, code samples and Splunk searches to be embedded right within the wiki pages. User forums and topics to organize event types have also been added.

        Splunk 2.0 was recently stress tested as the official troubleshooting tool of the InteoptNet at Interop Las Vegas. More than half a billion events were indexed in real-time over the course of the six-day show. Wireless access points, firewalls and network routers and switches were easier to troubleshoot with Splunk.

        "I was impressed with Splunk 1.0 which we used in the InteropNet at Interop New York last year, but with 2.0 Splunk has really taken their software to the next level," said Glenn Evans, Interop Lead Network Engineer. "We used an advanced copy of 2.0 in the InteropNet at Interop Las Vegas 2006 recently, which enabled us to more quickly drill down into issues and resolve them in a timely manner."

        More than 40,000 system administrators, developers and support engineers have downloaded Splunk since its launch in late last year. Fortune 500 companies, developers and consultants in the United States, as well as globally across Europe, Australia, India, and South Africa are splunking their systems to troubleshoot problems faster, improve availability and reduce the cost of managing IT infrastructure. The demand for quickly searching and navigating through complex mountains of production IT data is turning Splunk into a global experience.

        "With today's enterprise infrastructures being a complex, interconnected web of a variety of distributed computing assets, finding the source of service problems can be like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack," said Jasmine Noel, technology analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates. "Splunk simplifies root-cause analysis by providing a simple, yet powerful search and navigation as well as the ability to build a troubleshooting knowledgebase to share with peers. These type of capabilities will fast become a requirement in every data center."

        Splunk 2.0 Pricing and Availability
        Splunk 2.0 is available immediately at www.splunk.com. Pricing begins at $2,500.

        About Splunk
        Splunk is a radical new approach to troubleshooting IT systems and improving availability. We're making the world’s IT data accessible, understandable and useful. The idea was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest computing environments at places like Apple, HP, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        ]]>         Tue, 16 May 2006 5:49:34 +0800 /company/1058 Uncategorized         Splunk Introduces Splunk For Unicenter NSM Through Partnership With CA San Francisco – May 1, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search engine for fast moving IT data, today introduced and made available an integrated module that provides seamless workflow and data integration between CA’s systems management product, Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Unicenter NSM) and Splunk Professional—Splunk for Unicenter NSM.

        "Today's service oriented architectures are extremely challenging to manage—even for the most skilled and efficient IT staffs," said Melvin Estrada, business and product manager for CA. "By providing customers with increased visibility into the data generated by CA’s Unicenter NSM, Splunk enables IT support personnel to quickly pinpoint and respond to potential problems before they adversely impact critical business processes."

        Splunk Professional indexes and links together all the IT data generated by any system, application or device making it possible to search and navigate production IT infrastructures. Unicenter NSM r11 unifies and simplifies management of complex, multi-vendor environments and enables organizations to cost-effectively ensure the health, performance, and responsiveness of business critical IT services.

        Splunk for Unicenter NSM enables administrators to search an up-to-the-minute index of Unicenter NSM events, along with other network or system events, in real-time. The combination can dramatically improve service availability and operations efficiency by reducing the mean-time-to-repair (MTTR), especially for more complex problems.

        Splunk for Unicenter NSM
        Splunk for Unicenter NSM provides seamless workflow and data integration between Unicenter NSM r11 and Splunk Professional. The software enables CA customers to drill down from the Unicenter NSM console and directly launch the Splunk browser interface to search for events related to the host or device being monitored. It also seamlessly indexes and allows Unicenter NSM users to search and navigate Unicenter NSM events with other types of IT data including logs, configurations, message queues, JMX notifications, SNMP traps and database transactions from any service, application or device.

        With Splunk for Unicenter NSM, customers can:

        • Eliminate up to 90% of the time spent manually analyzing logfiles and other data from production systems after incidents are detected.
        • Enable IT support personnel to perform faster and more accurate troubleshooting by providing access to IT data in real-time.
        • Identify root cause and restore IT services faster.
        • Reduce incident response time and cost while improving IT support personnel productivity.

        Splunk Professional has received the ca smart seal of excellence, which is awarded to products that integrate seamlessly with CA’s Unicenter NSM, enabling customers to take advantage of best-in-class enterprise technologies while minimizing cost, time-to-benefit and risk.

        "Splunk for Unicenter NSM provides IT Administrators with a way to get the information they need about their data center in real time when issues are escalated to level two or level three support," said Michael Baum, chief executive splunker. "Our customers tell us that the combination of a comprehensive management system like Unicenter NSM with the ability to quickly troubleshoot problems with Splunk Professional is a powerful means to improve and maintain service availability."

        About Splunk
        Splunk is a radical new approach to troubleshooting IT systems and improving availability. We’re making the world's IT data accessible, understandable and useful. The idea was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest computing environments at places like Apple, HP, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.


        Contact:
        Trisha Ristagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com

        ]]>         Mon, 1 May 2006 5:49:34 +0800 /company/1059 Uncategorized         Splunk Taps Industy Veteran to Build Splunk Powered San Francisco – April 19, 2005 – Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search software for fast moving IT data, today announced that Frank Swain, an industry veteran business development executive, has joined the company. Swain brings a blend of corporate expertise, business acumen and proven leadership in partner relationships and channel development to Splunk from industry systems management leaders Wily and Mercury Interactive. Swain will work from Splunk's new office in Boston.

        Swain will head Splunk's partner initiatives with managed service providers and systems integrators. Splunk has already begun signing partnerships with ISVs, appliance, storage and network vendors, and open source technology providers to embed its namesake IT search and troubleshooting technology into their offerings as part of its Splunk Powered program. With Splunk integrated into their products and service offerings, customers can diagnose and resolve IT issues faster and improve availability of their offerings.

        "Frank brings an impressive breadth of corporate and business expertise to the Splunk team," said Michael Baum, chief executive splunker at Splunk. "A number of technology vendors and managed service providers have already expressed interest in embedding Splunk into their offerings. We provide them with a powerful way to troubleshoot any system. With Frank's help we expect to continue expanding the channel beyond ISV’s and appliance vendors to hosted services and system integrators."

        "Splunk has some of the most impressive technology I've seen in my career in the technology industry," said Frank Swain, head partner splunker at Splunk. "It's truly a new approach to systems management. In addition, the integration process for partners is incredibly easy. I'm excited to be joining such a talented team."

        Swain was most recently director of worldwide channels for Wily Technology, a provider of enterprise application management solutions for Java and J2EE platforms. Prior to Wily Technology, Swain held the position of global account manager at Mercury Interactive, a global leader in Business Technology Optimization (BTO) software and services. He also founded two technology companies, Vicom and United Software. Swain led United Software to revenues of over $4 million and an initial public offering.

        About Splunk
        Splunk is a radical new approach to troubleshooting IT systems and improving availability. We’re making the world’s IT data accessible, understandable and useful. The idea was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest computing environments at places like Apple, HP, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        Contact:
        Trisha Ristagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com


        Christopher Fucanan
        Atomic PR
        415.439.4219
        chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com

        ]]>         Wed, 19 Apr 2006 5:49:34 +0800 /company/1060 Uncategorized         Troubleshooting 2.0 – IT Communities Gather at Splunk Base San Francisco – April 3, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search software for fast moving IT data, today announced the launch of Splunk Base, a global wiki of IT events enabling the worldwide community of IT professionals to access and share in-depth information about specific events recorded by any service, application or device and benefit from what many IT professionals consider their most trusted resource--their peers. Splunk Base integrates into Splunk's search software for log files and other types of IT data to cut troubleshooting time and speed problem resolution. More than 3,500 people have registered so far to participate in the beta test of Splunk Base.

        "Splunk has integrated two key productivity strengths for optimizing IT troubleshooting--search and community. Search makes discovering problems amid data overload easier, and community involvement provides rich fix-it advice based on actual use and experience," said Dana Gardner, principal analyst, Interarbor Solutions. "Most IT professionals already look to their peers for answers to tough problems. Splunk Base now brings the resident knowledge of the global operations community to those who need more productivity, using a wiki approach that users and contributors can explore, reinforce and therefore trust. This is exactly the way IT people think and want to work."

        Splunk’s search software indexes and links together ALL the log files and other types of IT data generated by ANY service, application or device making it possible to search and navigate running IT infrastructures. Splunk Base is integrated into Splunk Professional and Splunk Server providing direct lookup of IT event information from Splunk search results.

        Splunk Base leverages the company’s universal event classification algorithms to automatically fingerprint individual events and identify common events in any kind of IT data. Splunk fingerprints every event it sees based on the structure and syntax of the event ignoring variables such as timestamps, IP addresses and process IDs. Universal "event types" are used to organize and lookup wiki entries and connect people working on similar kinds of infrastructures and technologies. System administrators, developers and support people can tap into hands-on experts with a vendor neutral point of view while maintaining privacy and security.

        Splunk Base allows IT professionals to:

        • Leverage the collective knowledge of the global Splunk Base community to find fixes to hard problems and improve their knowledge about the components in their IT infrastructure.
        • Capture their own knowledge for re-use by their global peers inside and outside their organization.
        • Establish credibility and expertise in particular areas and connect with other IT professionals working on similar problems and technologies.
        • Stay on top of new developments with automatic Splunk Base alerts.

        "Splunk's mission is to make IT data more accessible, understandable and useful to the people that need it," said Michael Baum, Splunk's Chief Executive Splunker. "Applications and underlying infrastructure today are complex, made up of thousands of components, technologies and services. You can't possibly understand it all in-depth in this lifetime. But you understand some of it and other IT professionals understand other parts of it. For the first time Splunk Base harnesses the collective knowledge of IT professionals around the world all in one place."

        More than 35,000 system administrators, developers and support engineers have downloaded Splunk since its launch in late last year. Fortune 500 companies, developers and consultants in the United States, as well as globally across Europe, Australia, India, and South Africa are splunking their systems to troubleshoot problems faster, improve availability and reduce the cost of managing IT infrastructure. The demand for quickly searching and navigating through complex mountains of production IT data is turning Splunk into a global experience.

        IT professionals can register to search or post event data at www.splunkbase.com. A free downloadable version of Splunk is available at www.splunk.com.

        About Splunk
        Splunk is a radical new approach to troubleshooting IT systems and improving availability. We’re making the world's IT data accessible, understandable and useful. The idea was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest computing environments at places like Apple, HP, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        Contact:
        Trisha Ristagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com


        Christopher Fucanan
        Atomic PR
        415.439.4219
        chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com

        ]]>         Mon, 3 Apr 2006 5:49:34 +0800 /company/1061 Uncategorized         Splunk Named Gartner "Cool Vendor in IT Operations" San Francisco – March 14, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search software for fast moving IT data, is excited to announce that it has been named one of Gartner’s "Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management" in a March 9, 2006 report released by Gartner, Inc. Written by Cameron Haight, et al, the report, "Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management, 2006," selected companies representing unique and interesting offerings in the IT operations management marketplace.

        The Gartner report states: "Most of today's IT operations management industry is focused on using structured data and metadata to describe infrastructure component relationships for the purpose of improving functions such as root cause analysis." It goes on to say, "Operations specialists, administrators and application support teams can use this tool to offload developers from having to become involved in problem determination exercises."

        "Splunk is honored to be selected by Gartner as a 'cool vendor' in IT operations management," said Michael Baum, Splunk’s chief executive splunker. "Splunk's mission is to make IT data more accessible, understandable and useful to the folks that need it. While IT infrastructure has changed, the current methods of managing and troubleshooting haven't. Splunk delivers a new way of dealing with massive amounts of IT data. We feel this recognition confirms what we already believe--that IT data is an asset, not a liability."

        Gartner's "cool vendor" list is the latest recognition Splunk has received since its launch last year. Splunk was named "One to Watch" by the Open Source Business Conference last month and recently received $ 10 million in funding. Splunk’s software has been downloaded by more than 30,000 IT professionals since its introduction in August 2005.

        Splunk makes it faster, easier and cheaper to troubleshoot applications, systems and underlying IT infrastructure in real-time. It is the only solution to leverage the simplicity and speed of search technology for troubleshooting IT systems. By making the vast amount of fast-moving IT data searchable, Splunk helps administrators troubleshoot problems faster, improve service quality, and reduce the cost of incident response.

        About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
        Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

        Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

        About Splunk
        Splunk is a radical new approach to troubleshooting IT systems. The company was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest data centers, search engines and distributed technologies at places like Apple, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. We’re making all IT data accessible, understandable and useful. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        ]]>         Tue, 14 Mar 2006 4:49:34 +0800 /company/1062 Uncategorized         Nagios Monitoring and Splunk Troubleshooting -- New Capabilities for the IT Tool Belt San Francisco – February 14, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search software for fast moving IT data, today announced they are working with the Nagios project, the most popular open source systems management host and service monitor, to provide system administrators with an integrated systems monitoring and problem resolution approach. Splunk is also pleased to announce the appointment of Ethan Galstad, creator and lead developer of Nagios, to its advisory board.

        As part of Splunk’s recently announced Splunk Powered program, Splunk is teaming with Galstad to deliver a Nagios monitoring and Splunk troubleshooting approach that enables customers to diagnose and resolve issues faster, decrease mean time to repair (MTTR), improve service quality and reduce the cost of incident response.

        "In today’s increasingly on-demand environments, it is critical that enterprises maintain the highest system and application availability," said Patrick McGovern, Splunk’s chief community splunker. "Splunk and Nagios are a natural fit—system administrators are soldiers on the front line, shielding users from the frustration of keeping complex distributed environments up 24x7. When I was heading up Sourceforge.net, I saw firsthand how powerful Nagios is in finding service and hardware problems when managing 100’s of high availability servers. With Splunk integrated with Nagios you can move from a Nagios alert directly to navigating your way through any IT data from any part of your infrastructure, diagnosing and resolving issues faster."

        Running an effective data center can be an extreme challenge requiring the integration and management of many products and technologies. The Nagios project is the second product to join the Splunk Powered program since its launch last month. Splunk and Galstad will work together to integrate event notification and centralize management across both solutions. Initial integration points include:

        • Real-time indexing of Nagios event and alerts by the Splunk server.
        • Splunk searches embedded into Nagios alerts and notifications.
        • Integration of Live Splunk notifications into Nagios events and monitoring.
        • Nagios plugin(s) for monitoring the status of Splunk Servers from Nagios.
        • Population of Nagios event descriptors and tags into Splunk Base, the global knowledge base of product IT data.

        "Splunk's ability to enhance troubleshooting of data center technologies through the use of search-based technology is a perfect complement to the monitoring and alerting features found in Nagios," said Galstad. "I am excited about working with Splunk and being a member of the company’s advisory board."

        Ethan Galstad’s background and expertise in open source and systems management technologies make him a perfect fit as the latest addition to Splunk’s industry advisory board. Ethan is the creator and lead developer of Nagios, which since its inception in 1999 as NetSaint, has attracted numerous developers and a large following of users. Ethan is also the president of Ayamon, LLC -- a company he founded in 2003 to promote open source solutions.

        More than 24,000 system administrators, developers and support engineers have downloaded the Splunk Server since its launch in August 2005. Fortune 500 companies, developers and consultants in the United States, as well as globally across Europe, Australia, India, and South Africa are splunking their systems to troubleshoot problems faster, improve service quality, and reduce the cost of incident response. The demand for quickly searching through complex mountains of production IT data is turning Splunk into a global experience.

        In addition to the incredible growth of the Splunk Community, Splunk Powered, the company’s partner program is providing the ability for software companies, data center device and appliance vendors, and hosted service providers to integrate Splunk’s advanced search and troubleshooting technology into their own offerings.

        A 30-day free trial of Splunk Professional is available at www.splunk.com/download.

        About Nagios
        Nagios® is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external "plugins" which return status information to Nagios. When problems are encountered, the daemon can send notifications out to administrative contacts in a variety of different ways (email, instant message, SMS, etc.). Current status information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed via a web browser.

        About Splunk
        Splunk is a disruptive new approach to troubleshooting IT systems. The company was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest data centers, search engines and distributed technologies at places like Apple, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. We're out to make navigating IT infrastructure as easy and powerful as surfing the Web. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        Contact:
        Trisha Ristagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com


        Christopher Fucanan
        Atomic PR
        415.439.4219
        chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com

        ]]>         Tue, 14 Feb 2006 4:49:34 +0800 /company/1063 Uncategorized         Investors Put Cash on the Table and Start Splunking San Francisco – January 24, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search software for fast moving IT data, today announced they’ve secured $10 million in a second round of funding. JK&B Capital joins the Splunk team along with existing investors August Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        JK&B partner and industry veteran Marc Sokol will join the Splunk Board of Directors. Marc’s 30 years in the software industry make him a perfect fit with the Splunk team. Before joining JK&B, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Marketing with Computer Associates. Prior to CA, Marc co-founded Realia, Inc., where he co-authored the Realia COBOL compiler, runtime and various utilities. Earlier in his career he was a software developer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Marc is widely recognized as an authority on Internet and infrastructure technologies and has addressed the United Nations on the challenges of managing global computer infrastructures.

        "The widespread adoption of distributed heterogeneous architectures makes troubleshooting increasingly difficult and expensive in today’s data center environments. The challenge has evolved from managing individual devices and components to finding the root cause of problems among the plethora of interactions between all the infrastructures moving parts," said Marc Sokol, Partner, JK&B Capital. "Splunk has delivered the solution to this problem by leveraging the growing mass of existing IT data from any source. We are convinced that search will be the dominant technology for troubleshooting complex IT environments."

        More than 15,000 system administrators, developers and support engineers have downloaded the Splunk Server since its launch in August 2005. Fortune 500 companies, developers and consultants in the United States, as well as globally across Europe, Australia, India, and Kenya, are splunking their systems to troubleshoot problems faster, improve service quality, and reduce the cost of responding to incidents. The demand for quickly searching through complex mountains of production IT data is turning Splunk into a global experience.

        In addition to the incredible growth of the Splunk Community, Splunk Powered, the company’s OEM partner program, is providing the ability for software companies, data center device and appliance vendors, and hosted service providers to integrate Splunk’s advanced search and troubleshooting technology into their own offerings.

        "We are excited to have Marc and the JK&B team join Splunk," said Michael Baum, Chief Executive Splunker. "This second round of funding will accelerate our goal of having Splunk everywhere. We will continue to advance the ability to Splunk any IT data in increasingly useful ways and improve the lives of all IT professionals. We will use this new investment to drive the world-wide adoption of Splunk in the data center through our growing Splunk Community and OEM partnerships with leading technology vendors through our Splunk Powered program."

        The free Splunk Server and Splunk Professional are available now and can be evaluated at www.splunk.com/download.

        About Splunk
        Splunk is a disruptive new approach to troubleshooting IT systems. The company was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest data centers, search engines and distributed technologies at places like Apple, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. We're out to make navigating IT infrastructure as easy and powerful as surfing the Web. Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        About JK&B Capital
        JK&B Capital is a venture capital firm focused in the software, IT and communications markets with over $900 million of capital under management. Founded in 1996, JK&B has built a track record of generating exceptional returns for investors by identifying and investing in companies with technologies which have been critical to the growth of the world’s information economy. Since 2000, JK&B Capital has funded many market leading security technology companies, including Zone Labs (acquired by Checkpoint) and Entercept (acquired by Network Associates/McAfee). For more information please visit www.jkbcapital.com.

        Contact:
        Trisha Ristagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com


        Christopher Fucanan
        Atomic PR
        415.439.4219
        chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com

        ]]>         Tue, 24 Jan 2006 4:49:34 +0800 /company/1064 Uncategorized         Troubleshooting Brews at First Ever Camp Sys Admin San Francisco – January 18, 2006 – Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search software for fast moving IT data, today announced the success of Camp Sys Admin – the first ever camp for IT system administrators. The first in a series of gatherings to confront the challenges that face systems administrators, Camp Sys Admin was co-sponsored by Splunk and leading IT community organizations including BayLISA, League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA), Network and Systems Professionals Association (NaSPA), and USENIX. Camp Sys Admin opened the dialogue on critical topics among system administrators, data center architects and technology developers.

        "This year more than $100B will be spent managing the world's data centers. The deployment of new technologies like VoIP, Web services, virtualization and competing open source solutions will mean sys admins and IT managers will be solving more difficult problems and working longer hours," said Michael Baum, Chief Executive Splunker. "As the world becomes more on-demand, the demand for effective administration of IT systems is on the rise. As a company, we've been surprised at the lack of dialogue regarding system administration challenges in the popular IT press and the IT community at large. System administrators are searching for vehicles to discuss troubleshooting and systems management problems haunting them on a daily basis. Our goal as Camp Sys Admin sponsors, is to create a forum for IT professionals to share knowledge and foster communication around the challenges they face in increasingly complex IT environments."

        Attendees from companies including Clorox, Danger, Google, Netblue, Partnership Healthplan of CA, Polimetrix, and Symantec engaged in discussions about key data center challenges across multiple industries. Campers all agreed on the need for a strengthened sys admin community and new ways to collaborate on systems management issues and best practices.

        Critical in today’s on-demand environment is achieving the most optimal balance of uptime and availability. System administrators are troubleshooting on the front lines, shielding users from the complexity and frustration of integrating complex distributed environments. In informal discussions moderated by experts including Brian Aker, Director of Architecture, MySQL; Erik Allman, Chief Technical Officer, Sendmail Inc.; Richard Whitehead, Chief Technical Officer, Clarus Systems; and Ethan Galstad, father of Nagios, the camp addressed topics such as:

        • IP Telephony and the lack of industry expertise
        • Lack of responsiveness in messaging systems
        • Data center alerting and monitoring technologies
        • Resolving cryptic issues that often span multiple systems and departments
        • Operational Collaboration – solving problems that cross different operational domains
        • Technology integration

        "The time for networking is now, not for companies, but for people," said Radi Shourbaji, President of NaSPA, Inc., the Network and Systems Professionals Association. "It's fascinating to see primary issues today being fueled by collaboration and away from the finger pointing. Today was not about new technology, rather sys admins coming together to address how we make technologies work."

        "The League of Professional System Administrators is proud to be a co-sponsor for Camp Sys Admin," said Sam Albrecht, executive director of League of Professional System Administrators. "As a professional society of system administrators, we feel local events like these are a great way to advance the practice of system administration, a primary mission of LOPSA, and we hope to see more of these events around the country."

        About Splunk

        Splunk is a disruptive new approach to troubleshooting systems. Splunk was born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest data centers, search engines, and distributed technologies at places like Apple, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. We're out to make navigating IT infrastructure as easy and powerful as surfing the Web. Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.


        Contact:
        Trisha Ristagno
        Splunk Inc.
        415.848.8474
        trisha@splunk.com

        Christopher Fucanan
        Atomic PR
        415.439.4219
        chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com
        ]]>         Wed, 18 Jan 2006 4:49:34 +0800 /company/1065 Uncategorized         Splunk Launches Splunk Powered Program San Francisco – January 10, 2005 – Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search software for fast moving IT data, today announced the launch of its OEM partnership program, Splunk Powered. Software companies, data center device and appliance vendors, and hosted service providers can now integrate advanced troubleshooting technology and make it possible for their customers to diagnose and resolve issues faster. More than 12,000 system administrators, developers, and help desk professionals have downloaded Splunk since its launch in August.

        Running an effective data center requires integrating and managing many products and technologies which can be extremely challenging. With Splunk Powered, OEM partners and their customers can troubleshoot problems and investigate issues as they happen with their own products and across other vendor’s technologies. Splunk Powered enables partners to:

        • Easily and quickly add advanced, branded, real-time troubleshooting.
        • Increase customer satisfaction by reducing mean time to repair (MTTR).
        • Reduce costs by increasing the efficiency of support, field operations, and consulting teams.
        • Provide improved management and extend troubleshooting capabilities beyond single products and technologies to multi-vendor installations.

        Solidcore, the leading provider of IT control solutions, is the first to be Splunk Powered. Through this partnership, Solidcore plans to integrate Splunk technology into the company’s S3 Control line of products that address a variety of business problems including system configuration control, compliance sustainability, end-point security, critical infrastructure protection, legacy OS remediation, and embedded OS protection.

        "Splunk Powered is a natural addition to our S3 Control product line," said Rosen Sharma, President and CEO at Solidcore. "With Splunk Professional added to our products, customers will be better able to access definitive change data quickly, efficiently and accurately. This provides quicker problem resolution and forensics for our customers."

        A key enabling technology for Solidcore’s products is the capture of real-time and comprehensive change information in order to provide visibility, accountability and selective enforcement of change processes. Splunk Professional will provide an additional interface into this rich data set, providing users with powerful search capabilities. This will assist Solidcore customers in more efficient forensics and root cause analysis.

        "We are excited about the opportunity to help simplify the troubleshooting process across the datacenter as more technology providers become Splunk Powered," said Stan Chin, Chief Partner Splunker. "We are thrilled to team with Solidcore as our first step."

        To learn more about becoming Splunk Powered visit www.splunk.com/splunkpowered.

        About Solidcore
        Solidcore Systems is the leading provider of IT control solutions that facilitate an organization’s ability to gain cost-effective and categorical control of its IT operations to realize immediate and tangible value in change control, compliance and security. Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies utilize Solidcore solutions. Solidcore Systems is a private, venture-backed enterprise software company with its headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. Call toll free (888) 210-6530 or visit www.solidcore.com for more information.

        About Splunk
        Splunk is a disruptive new approach to troubleshooting systems, born of our own frustration building and running some of the world's largest data centers, search engines and distributed technologies at places like Apple, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. We're out to make navigating IT infrastructure as easy and powerful as surfing the Web. Splunk is a private company based in San Francisco, CA and funded by August Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.

        ]]>         Tue, 10 Jan 2006 4:49:34 +0800 /company/1066 Uncategorized         Splunkers Now Searching IT Data Across the Enterprise NEW YORK, December 13, 2005 - Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search software for IT data, today announced the immediate availability of Splunk Professional. Designed for troubleshooting in complex IT environments including enterprise applications, on demand services, messaging, IP telephony and customer service, Splunk Professional is the commercial edition of the Free Splunk Server.

        Splunk’s innovative approach to troubleshooting is quickly becoming the tool of choice for anyone who needs to understand system behavior across applications, systems and technologies. More than 5,000 system administrators, developers and help desk professionals have downloaded the Free Splunk Server since its launch in August.

        This new community of Splunkers has been clamoring for the enterprise level features now available in Splunk Professional, including:

        • Live Splunks run on regularly scheduled intervals and provide notifications via RSS, email or triggers to execute commands.
        • My Splunk with multiple user accounts, role-based access controls and personalization.
        • Splunk Sync to enable distributed data access and processing for large-scale environments.
        • Multiple Indexes can be maintained to work with separate data sets.
        • Professional Support with guaranteed response times.

        "I've been waiting for Splunk Professional to be released, to use for automating the collection and analysis of live data from diverse sources," said Brent Chapman, principal consultant at Great Circle Associates and coauthor of the acclaimed O'Reilly and Associates book "Building Internet Firewalls." "Much of our work involves building IT infrastructures for clients anticipating huge growth, as well as rebuilding infrastructures that have already been stretched to their limits. Deploying a tool like this for our clients allows us to give them a much better handle on their infrastructure."

        Splunk Professional Pricing and Availability
        Pricing for Splunk Professional starts at $2,500 for an annual term license. A trial version of Splunk Professional is available for free download at www.splunk.com/r/download.

        About Splunk
        We started Splunk out of our own frustration building and managing some of the world’s largest data centers, search engines and distributed technologies at places like Apple, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. We’re out to make navigating your IT infrastructure as easy as surfing the Web. Splunk is funded by August Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds. Check us out at www.splunk.com.

        ]]>         Tue, 13 Dec 2005 1:08:01 +0800 /company/1067 Uncategorized         InteropNet® Gets Splunked San Francisco, December 1, 2005 – Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first data center search software for IT data, today announced it has been selected as the "Data Center Troubleshooting" provider for the InteropNet event network at Interop New York next week. The InteropNet is the event’s "dream network," built from scratch by 14 vendors and comprised of several million dollars' worth of IT equipment.

        The InteropNet participating vendors are hand-selected by a committee and put their products to the test in the ultimate networking challenge: providing reliable, high-speed network services to all Interop New York exhibitors, conference services and meeting rooms using the latest technologies.

        "The InteropNet was an important testing ground for TCP/IP in the early days of the commercial Internet. With Interop expanding its focus into the data center, it's a fantastic opportunity for us to be chosen to participate," said Michael Baum, Chief Executive Splunker. "With the Splunk search software, this year's InteropNet engineers will have the ability to identify breakdowns and dependencies—in real time, across all IT data, on any vendor's platform—allowing for troubleshooting in any situation during the initial construction and ongoing maintenance of the network."

        Splunk is search software that lets you easily navigate all data recorded by typical enterprise IT systems. From one place system administrators, developers and help desk and support teams can make sense of IT data—log and configuration files from any device or application, message queues and the enterprise service bus, JMX notifications, SNMP traps and records stored in database tables—regardless of their format or source. With Splunk, problems can be diagnosed and resolved faster and more precisely.

        Splunk's search software will provide Interop show personnel the ability to easily and rapidly investigate issues across the wide variety of network devices and services that form the InteropNet.

        Splunk Professional will be installed on two hosts—one receiving live data from various network devices and applications and the second set up to allow any exhibitor to send any of their data on an ad hoc basis.

        "We've seen the tremendous impact that new search capabilities have had on the IT industry over the last 10 years," said Lenny Heymann, Interop's General Manager. "We're excited to have Splunk’s participation in the InteropNet—we think Interop New York 2005 attendees will be eager to learn more about how new search tools can address common network systems troubleshooting issues."

        About Splunk
        Splunking is an adventure. We're inviting you to come along. We started Splunk out of our own frustration building and managing some of the world's largest data centers, search engines, and distributed technologies at places like Apple, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo.

        



        We're out to make navigating your IT infrastructure as easy as surfing the Web. Splunk is funded by August Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds. Check out Splunk Professional at www.splunk.com.

        About Interop®
        Part of the MediaLive International, Inc. family of global brands, Interop® has led the revolution and evolution in IP networking for the past twenty years. Interop® is dedicated to promoting and demonstrating the interoperability of the converged network, applications and devices to seamlessly exchange and use information to address the full range of business challenges facing IT organizations today and tomorrow. As the leading destination for technology buyers and sellers, Interop has fostered the growth and evolution of the IT industry for the past two decades, and remains the most anticipated and only comprehensive IT event. Through in-depth educational programs, workshops, real-world demonstrations and live technology implementations in its unique InteropNet and InteropLabs programs, Interop® provides the forum for the most powerful innovations and solutions the industry has to offer. Interop® New York will take place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, December 12-16, 2005, and Interop® Las Vegas 2006 will take place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, April 30-May 5, 2006. For more information about the event, visit www.interop.com.

        ]]>         Thu, 1 Dec 2005 4:49:34 +0800 /company/1068 Uncategorized         Enterprises are Troubleshooting J2EE Production Environments with Splunk SAN FRANCISCO - September 27, 2005 - Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search engine for machine data from live production systems, today announced that enterprises are using the Splunk Personal ServerTM to troubleshoot and manage applications in J2EE production environments. More than 1,000 users, representing over 100 Fortune 1000 companies, have downloaded the beta version of Splunk Personal Server since its launch last month at LinuxWorld San Francisco.

        Splunk is being used to expand systems management arsenal in mission-critical J2EE-based applications. "While the application server enabled multi-tier architectures required to scale web-based applications and services, it also introduced enormous complexity," said Adam Messinger, former Weblogic principal architect and co-founder of Gaunlet Systems. "Many tedious hours are spent poring over volumes of data trying to diagnose problems during development and into production."

        Enterprise application stacks are becoming increasingly complex. System administrators and developers need to understand web servers, application servers, databases, storage systems and networks to deploy, scale and manage J2EE applications. "Prior to Splunk, there weren’t tools for getting real-time, actionable insights into the logical layer of the infrastructure," said Chief Executive Splunker Michael Baum. "It’s common for J2EE applications to run into problems related to configuration, communication with other components and with the application architecture itself. Splunk gives IT, development and support organizations the ability to search and navigate running applications and infrastructure, which makes managing and troubleshooting a J2EE environment a whole lot easier."

        "The number of sources we need to access to troubleshoot J2EE applications is overwhelming," said Vinu Sundaresan, CTO Collation Inc. "Application servers and containers can use Log4J, native Java logging, custom logging containers and JMX. Hibernate and EJB have their own logs and formats for service orchestration. Databases maintain their own native logging, state and audit data - not to mention Linux syslog and Windows event logs at the OS level and the plethora of networking devices and the data they produce."

        "Up until now, the J2EE management world has been too narrowly focused on CPU utilization, process utilization and performance management," said Baum. "None of them look outside of the J2EE development environment at the dependencies of the J2EE container in different tiers. Splunk is enabling a broader level of insight into all of the other systems and machines that applications touch not just narrowly looking at the performance of the JVM."

        Other beta users of the Splunk Personal Server are troubleshooting server installations, IP telephony systems, email messaging systems and LAMP stack environments - but troubleshooting J2EE has emerged as a particular area in which the Splunk tool has immediately proven its value.

        Splunk offers benefits for systems administrators that go beyond traditional system and network management tools such as Tivoli and Openview. These tools help administrators manage and instrument the physical layer of a data center, but they are primarily reactive. They rely on mechanisms such as SNMP traps and JMX events that provide after-the-fact notification of a problem but fail to provide the necessary context around the surrounding production environment activity to enable immediate troubleshooting and resolution.

        About Splunk
        Based in San Francisco, Splunk was founded by executives who built and managed some of the world’s largest Internet computing environments, search engines and distributed technologies at Apple, AskJeeves, Infoseek, Looksmart, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. Splunk’s goal is to make navigating IT infrastructure as easy as surfing the Web. Splunk is funded by August Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds. Check us out at www.splunk.com.

        ]]>         Tue, 27 Sep 2005 5:49:34 +0800 /company/1069 Uncategorized         Splunk Introduces First Search Technology to See Inside the Data Center SAN FRANCISCO – August 8, 2005 – Splunk (www.splunk.com), a new start-up founded by search and IT gurus from Infoseek, SourceForge.net and Yahoo, today announced the first search engine designed specifically for systems administrators to troubleshoot the data center. The Splunk Personal Server is available for free public beta download at: http://www.splunk.com.

        "Data center managers are under increasing organizational pressures to improve performance, reliability and scalability in their IT operating environments at the cost, however, of increased complexity," said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president, System Software, IDC. "Tools like the Splunk Server that promise to deal with operational complexity will be a benefit."

        The Splunk Server has been field tested in a private beta program by 25 companies across a range of industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, online services, telecommunications and customer call centers. Today, Splunk starts a public beta program for anyone to participate. Customers benefit with increased uptime and a significant reduction in the cost of data center operations. Users are able to speed the analysis of problems and identification of root causes. For the first time, teams can share troubleshooting context across the data center or around the world.

        "People thought Web search was complex, but that’s about indexing and searching fairly static data in a single language like English, German or Chinese," said Michael Baum, Chief Executive Splunker and former vice president of E-commerce Services at Yahoo. "Machine data is very dynamic and takes the form of many languages like Web servers, databases and networking devices that all need to be indexed and searched at the same time. We’ve invented powerful algorithms that dynamically index and discover relationships across diverse domains of machine data on the fly."

        Splunk enables systems administrators, support staff and developers to diagnose and resolve problems faster and more precisely by reverse engineering system and application logic and following the trail of any transaction. The Splunk Server organizes and makes sense of all types of machine-generated data, including Web servers, application servers, email servers, databases and network devices. Its utility and ease of use make Splunk applicable to a wide range of situations including distributed enterprise applications, on-demand services, messaging, customer support and IP telephony and VoIP.

        "System administrators can easily manage data about the physical health of their systems. But what about the data regarding the logical health of systems? Today, it’s scattered about in many languages and locations," said Brian Aker, director of Architecture at MySQL. "Now imagine having all that data aggregated and searchable, not as separate outputs from your application stacks, but from a single unified interface where you can find related issues."

        The Splunk Server installs quickly and can be up and running in under 15 minutes. Users access the Splunk Server’s AJAX interface through a Web browser. Once data is indexed, users can find their way through systems using time and keyword searches or navigate the links of event relationships by pointing and clicking through Splunk’s interactive results. There’s no faster, better or easier way to troubleshoot even the most complicated IT infrastructure.

        "The Splunk Server software installed in a snap and within minutes I was searching through our logs," said Scott Nelson Windels, director of Operations at InfoCentricity, a provider of software and analytical services. "For any IT or Operations team who needs to quickly sift through a variety of logs and log formats to identify and resolve issues, the concept of Splunking is both exciting and refreshing!"

        About Splunk
        Splunking is an adventure. We’re inviting you to come along. We started Splunk out of our own frustration building and managing some of the world’s largest data centers, search engines, and distributed technologies at places like Apple, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo.

        We’re out to make navigating your IT infrastructure as easy as surfing the Web. Splunk is funded by August Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds. Check us out at www.splunk.com.

        ]]>         Mon, 8 Aug 2005 5:49:34 +0800 /company/1070 Uncategorized         Splunk Raises $5 Million Series A Moaning Cavern, CA, December 16, 2004 -- A band of entrepreneurs and partners from August Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds descended 165 feet yesterday to explore the deep chambers and passages of the California underground. The team emerged from its venture capital presentation with a $5M investment in their new company Splunk Technology.

        "Navigating today's IT infrastructure is like exploring underground caves. You wander around in the dark, crawling systems, sifting through lots of data to try and understand what's going on," said Michael Baum, Chief Executive Splunker. "IT is different these days. It's decentralized, componentized, open source, iterative, slightly broken, borderless and constantly changing. We wanted our investors to experience the physical demands of spelunking and explain to them the technical challenges of seeing inside today's IT systems."

        The company's technology will allow people to splunk IT systems, meaning find and follow important paths through the infrastructure by locating and analyzing very large amounts of operational IT data.

        IT systems used to be laid out like well-planned cities. What got connected to what and who talked to who was all tightly controlled. But today's infrastructure is distributed, loosely coupled and the potential connections and paths through the infrastructure are endless. As a result, the amount of operational data has grown rapidly and the structure and location of the data can change regularly.

        A typical server today can log more than a gigabyte a day and a small data center can generate over a terabyte of operational data a week. In addition to the problems of scaling traditional solutions to data of this magnitude, variety and frequency of change, making meaning out of the data is still a difficult task for even the most experienced technical staff.

        "We backed the Splunk team because they have built and managed some of the largest distributed IT infrastructures on the planet at places like Yahoo!, Disney, eBay, Infoseek, Bank of America and Wells Fargo," said David Hornik of August Capital.

        "Splunking is a disruptive new technology and approach to managing IT infrastructure. The market for IT management products is one of the largest software markets in the world, but is currently stagnated with old, out-dated technologies and solutions--it is ready to be reinvented," said general partner Nick Sturiale of Sevin Rosen Funds.

        About Splunk
        Splunk (www.splunk.com) is a new company focused on turning one of the largest software markets in the world on its head with a disruptive approach to managing IT infrastructure. The company founders have built and managed some of the largest distributed IT infrastructures on the planet at places like Yahoo!, Disney, eBay, Infoseek, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, CA. Splunk is backed by August Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds, two world-class venture capital firms.

        Splunk> is a pending trademark of Splunk Technology, Inc.

        About August Capital
        Founded in 1995, August Capital is a leading venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurial teams throughout the information technology market spectrum. With more than 50 years of combined venture capital experience and dozens of successful IPOs and public company board relationships, August Capital partners have financed technology companies with an aggregate market capitalization of more than one-half trillion dollars.

        About Sevin Rosen Funds
        Sevin Rosen Funds is a top-tier venture capital firm with a track record of funding successful companies since 1981. The partnership has consistently made early-stage investments in pioneering technologies and companies with the potential to create new markets. The partners' broad range of venture and operating experiences in successful technology companies translates into a sustained commitment and contribution to the development of the ventures funded. Compaq, Lotus, Cypress, Electronic Arts, SGI, Citrix and CIENA are representative of some of the firm's successful IPOs.

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