Splunk Announces High Performance Log and IT Data Search Engine

September 18, 2006; 04:37 AM
Splunk (http://www.splunk.com), innovator in log and IT data search, announced the availability of Splunk 2.1. The latest version of Splunk adds new capabilities for distributed search across multiple data centers and geographies. With enhancements to speed, capacity and performance, Splunk 2.1 is the highest performance log and IT data search engine for the enterprise. Splunk 2.1 can be downloaded at http://www.splunk.com.

"Enterprises are dealing with mountains of data," said Jasmine Noel, technology analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates. "Finding the cause of a problem in terabytes of data can use up costly resources. Splunk is continuing to set the standard for log and IT data search with faster indexing, real-time search and lower storage requirements, making troubleshooting easier for companies with large datasets across many different systems and technologies."

Splunk's search software indexes and enables you to search and navigate log and other types of IT data generated by any application, server or networking device making it possible to achieve extreme levels of availability, meet compliance mandates and cut operations costs.

Splunk 2.1 extends the Splunk core functionality with enhanced performance, new capabilities and features.

     -- Higher performance - With indexing speeds now ranging from 20,000 to
        120,000 events per second on a single server, Splunk is the world's
        highest performance search engine for log and IT data. Unlimited
        indexing speed can now be achieved by clustering multiple Splunk
        servers together. Splunk is three to five times faster than other log
        technologies and log appliances.
     -- Distributed Search - Now you can achieve massive scalability across
        multiple data centers or geographies with Splunk's distributed search.
        IT professionals can search terabytes of data a day across two, ten or
        a thousand Splunk servers running in different locations.  Search
        results are conveniently merged and presented to the user in an
        interactive AJAX web user interface.
     -- Lower storage requirements - Splunk now requires 40% less storage
        capacity for indexing and storing the original log or IT data.
     -- Enhanced Administration - All the Splunk Server settings including
        new data inputs can be configured a new web based administration
        interface.
     -- Solution Bundles - Configuration packages of Saved Splunks, Live
        Splunks and configurations for accessing and processing data can be
        created and shared on Splunk Base.
     -- Expanded Developer APIs - C++, SOAP, REST and command line APIs have
        been enhanced to allow for customization, integration and extension of
        the Splunk web user interface and the underlying Splunk index and
        search engine.

"Splunk 2.1 is dramatically expanding the ability to indexing log and IT data across the enterprise," said Michael Baum, Chief Executive Splunker. "Our customers see log and IT data as an asset rather than a daunting avalanche of data. With the insight Splunk brings, developers, system administrators, security analysts and operations managers are regaining control of their data centers."

More than 60,000 system administrators, developers and support engineers have downloaded Splunk since its launch in late last year. More than 70 enterprise customers including Apple, BEA, Comcast, FedEx, Sony, Sybase, U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of State and Vodafone are splunking their IT infrastructures. The demand for real-time search and navigation through complex mountains of production log and IT data is turning Splunk into a global experience.

Splunk 2.1 Pricing and Availability

Splunk 2.1 is available immediately at http://www.splunk.com. Pricing begins at just $2,500 per year.

About Splunk

Splunk lets you instantly figure out what's happening in any part of your IT infrastructure by indexing and enabling you to search all your logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real-time. The idea was born of our own frustration running some of the world's largest computing environments at places like Apple, HP, Infoseek, Microsoft, SourceForge.net, Sun and Yahoo. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds.