Splunk Achieves 90% Growth in Q3; Adds a Record 153 New Customers

Blockbuster Quarter Builds on the Success of Splunk 4 Global Launch

SAN FRANCISCO - October 20, 2009 - Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced third quarter (Q3) results with year-over-year growth of over 90 percent and over 200 percent growth in the EMEA and APAC regions. The company also added a record 153 new customers, increasing the count to over 1300, now including 39 of the Fortune 100. The accomplishments of Q3 coincide with the launch of Splunk 4, the highly acclaimed new release of the IT Search technology that has disrupted the IT management and security markets since first shipped in 2006. The company also announced that it has reached profitability.

Further validation of the value and widespread pervasiveness of IT Search, Splunk Q3 sales growth and new customer acquisition was distributed across virtually all industries and geographies. Splunk growth comes from prominent customers such as NATO, Credit Suisse, Sutter Health, IAH Games, The United States Department of State and Department of Energy, Georgia Institute of Technology, and NCHC - Taiwan's National Center for High-Performance Computing. "Splunk delivers a better way to manage, secure and audit IT infrastructures by reducing the time it takes to identify incidents and IT failures from days to minutes," said Splunk president and CEO, Godfrey Sullivan. "Splunk's Q3 growth and international expansion are testament to our people and innovative IT Search technology." He added, "The release of Splunk 4, with its speed and usability improvements, are accelerating customer adoption and building market leadership for the company."

Driving Splunk's Q3 success was the global launch of Splunk 4. The new release redefines the speed of previous releases with up to 10x faster search and 2x faster indexing, radically enhancing IT issue resolution times and incident investigations. Splunk 4 is now available in Japanese and Chinese. Since launch in July users have downloaded Splunk 4 over 40,000 times.

Additionally in Q3, Splunk hosted eleven SplunkLive! events on four continents. These interactive events featured a marquee line-up of Splunk customer presenters such as: Vodafone, Telenor, Early Warning, Amkor Technologies, Intuit, MySpace, Edmunds.com, Ericsson, VeriSign, Autodesk, IDT Corp, Moody's, New York Life, Comcast, and Discovery Communications.

Splunk Q3 Highlights:

• Year-over-year company growth: +90% vs. Q3 '08
• Record 153 new customers
• Record 97 customer expansions
• Q3 sales in 22 different countries, with customers now in 64 countries
• New Partnerships
  • Resellers: OCA, Australia
  • Distributors: Excelerate Systems, Latin America
  • System Integrators: Vectra & Frontline, Australia, Forsythe Technology Solutions, North America
• Introduced two Splunk Apps: Splunk for Unix and Splunk for Windows server management
• Introduced Splunk Technology Partner Apps: BlueCoat, Cisco and F5
• Splunk now available in Japanese & Chinese versions

About Splunk

Splunk^® Inc. is the engine for machine data™. Splunk software collects, indexes and harnesses the massive machine data continuously generated by the websites, applications, servers, networks andmobile 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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