Splunk Beats Second Quarter Forecast Bringing IT Search to More Data Centers

Fourth Consecutive Quarter Beating Expectations

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.