Splunk Appoints Tom Schodorf as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations

Accomplished Technology and Sales Veteran to Fuel the Global Growth of IT Search

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.

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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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