Splunk's Erik Swan Captures InfoWorld CTO Top 25 Award Honors

Splunk Technology Leadership and Approach Gains Further Validation From Industry Experts

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

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About Splunk

Splunk^® Inc. provides the engine for machine data™. Splunk software collects, indexes and harnesses the massive machine data continuously generated by the websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that power business. Splunk software enables organizations to monitor, search, analyze, visualize and act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data. More than 3,300 enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers in more than 75 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain operational intelligence that deepens business understanding, improves service and uptime, reduces cost and mitigates cybersecurity risk. To learn more, please visit www.splunk.com/company.

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