Splunk Wins Government Computer News' Best of FOSE Award for Network Administration

Government Computer News and Washington Technology Recognize Splunk for Technology Advancement and Innovation

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

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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.