Interop 2008: Splunk IT Search Wins Best of Interop

Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced that it has won Best of Interop in the Network Management, Software and Services category. The Best of Interop Awards recognize exhibitors that have made significant technological advancements. The panel of judges, comprised of award-winning editors from InformationWeek, selected the Splunk Platform including Splunk 3.2 and the Splunk for Change Management application, based on evidence that the product is moving business technology forward. The Splunk Platform is unique within its segment, providing users with a common set of services and APIs that make it easy to create and integrate applications that leverage vast amounts of IT data.

“Splunk has always taken great pride in the enthusiasm that we receive from our user community,” said Michael Baum, Splunk’s CEO and co-founder. “We’re honored to receive this recognition from InformationWeek’s esteemed judges. It’s great to have our peers in IT management be so excited about the unique contributions we’re making to the industry.”

“The Best of Interop Awards are always an indicator of the most innovative and exciting offerings in these product categories, and this year’s winners are no exception,” said Art Wittmann, Editor of InformationWeek. “Each of the category winners have truly demonstrated superior technology and innovation, and deserve recognition for their contributions to the industry.”

Splunk for Change Management at Interop 2008

This week at Interop, Splunk announced the introduction of Splunk for Change Management, a new application built on the Splunk IT Search platform. Splunk for Change Management improves availability and security by continuously auditing all configurations and changes, detecting unauthorized changes, validating change deployment, and rapidly discovering service-impacting changes during of incident response — without the need for point solutions or redundant investments in software and storage.

Splunk for Windows at Microsoft Management Summit 2008

This week at MMS, Splunk announced the introduction of Splunk for Windows, an application that integrates Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager’s command-and-control view of a Windows infrastructure with Splunk’s IT Search. Splunk indexes all IT data generated by Windows servers and applications — event logs, registry keys, performance metrics and application log files. All the data is searchable from a single place to resolve service-impacting incidents faster, enhance monitoring coverage, and validate service levels. Freely downloadable from http://www.splunkbase.com/, Splunk for Windows provides workflow integration with Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager 2007, and predefined alerts and reports to achieve rapid time-to-value for a Splunk deployment in Windows environments.

About Splunk

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 http://www.splunk.com/.

Source: Splunk via PRNewswire

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