Splunk Takes On the Chaos of Server Virtualization

First in Series of Splunk Apps Gives IT Operations Confidence to Handle Availability Issues Fast

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.

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.

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.

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