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Splunk CIO Discusses the Impact of the Internet of Things at Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit

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SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Splunk Inc. (NAS: SPLK) , the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, today announced that Doug Harr, chief information officer, Splunk, will discuss the impact of machine data and analytics on the Internet of Things during an interview panel at Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit. The summit will be held Wednesday, April 24 at the Apella at the Alexandria Center in New York City. The Internet of Things panel is scheduled to begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT.

“Splunk has dozens of customers who are already using their data to discover incredible insights well beyond traditional IT, from airline manufacturers analyzing flight data to military bases discovering energy cost savings through facility sensors. The common link among these organizations is machine data,” said Harr. “Thousands of Splunk customers monitor and analyze machine data in real-time, and the Internet of Things is an emerging source of machine data that promises enormous new insights. I look forward to sharing what I’ve learned from our customers and to a lively discussion on what the future holds.”

The panel will be moderated by Nick Turner, Team Leader of U.S. Telecom and Media at Bloomberg News, and includes executives from The ADT Corporation, GE Global Software and Analytics and Zebra Technologies, Inc. For more information about the summit, please visit http://www.bloomberglink.com/event/tech-2013/.

Register now for .conf2013, the 4th Annual Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference, featuring more than 100 sessions by Splunk customers, partners, experts and employees. .conf2013 is being held September 30-October 3 at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.

About Splunk Inc.

Splunk Inc. (NAS: SPLK) provides the engine for machine data™. Splunk® software collects, indexes and harnesses the machine-generated big data coming from 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 5,200 enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers in over 90 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain Operational Intelligence that deepens business and customer understanding, improves service and uptime, reduces cost and mitigates cybersecurity risk. Splunk Storm®, a cloud-based subscription service, is used by organizations developing applications in the cloud.

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Splunk Releases New Version of Splunk App for Windows

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Splunk Releases New Version of Splunk App for Windows


Delivers Deep Visibility to Identify Performance Issues and Prevent Outages

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Splunk Inc. (NAS: SPLK) , the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, today announced version 5.0 of the Splunk® App for Windows, which delivers enterprise-class monitoring for Microsoft Windows Server. The Splunk App for Windows enables users to monitor their end-to-end infrastructure to prevent outages and pinpoint performance issues in minutes. The Splunk App for Windows will be demonstrated this week at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas in the Splunk booth (#623). Download the Splunk App for Windows today.

“The update to the Splunk App for Windows, as well as the recent update to the Splunk App for VMware, reflect Splunk’s commitment to creating a platform that will allow end users to analyze data from their strategic IT investments,” said Rachel Chalmers, research vice president – infrastructure, 451 Research. “Windows presents a monitoring dilemma for organizations of any size. The new version of the Splunk App for Windows should help simplify this monitoring challenge by incorporating Windows data with other data generated across the infrastructure.”

“IT organizations around the world rely on Microsoft Windows Server as the base of their business infrastructure,” said Manish Kalra, director of product marketing, Splunk. “The Splunk App for Windows helps to create visibility across the entire Windows infrastructure, monitoring everything from Windows Servers to the thousands of Windows-based laptops and PCs. This can help keep critical systems online by enabling users to identify performance issues in real time or before they happen.”

Today’s Windows environments are more complex than ever before and are often deployed at a massive global scale. The need for real-time monitoring of the Windows platform is key to ensuring compliance of critical updates and patches and avoiding performance bottlenecks and network lag. The Splunk App for Windows enables Windows operations teams to monitor and analyze components beyond basic infrastructure by collecting and indexing machine data from CPUs, memory, disk and network usage, Windows updates, event logs and more. The Splunk App for Windows facilitates getting more machine-generated data from more sources into a single platform, enabling Splunk Enterprise to deliver more value across the enterprise by helping:

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Swisslos Hits the Jackpot with Splunk

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Gaming Provider Increases Uptime, Blocks Attacks and Boosts Customer Satisfaction with Splunk Enterprise

SAN FRANCISCO & MUNICH–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Splunk Inc. (NAS: SPLK) , the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, today announced that Swisslos Interkantonale Landeslotterie is using Splunk® Enterprise to gain a complete, integrated view of all its IT operations. Splunk software enables real-time analysis and greater system stability at Swisslos, which has a positive effect on Swisslos’ business.

The Swisslos Interkantonale Landeslotterie, founded in 1937, is a co-operative organization. Swisslos offers, on behalf of twenty cantons and the Principality of Liechtenstein, lottery, sports betting, bingo and a whole range of lottery ticket offerings.

“Splunk closes the gap between people and data, which enables us to make better decisions faster,” said Joris Vuffray, network and systems management team leader, Swisslos. “Big data analysis is now easier than ever before at Swisslos, and we gained operational intelligence almost immediately with the extensive visualization features provided by Splunk software.”

Swisslos uses Splunk Enterprise to collect, index, analyze and visualize data coming from a several IT systems in order to run IT operations management and network security. Splunk software is pivotal to monitoring the games systems, measuring the network and application security and registering compliance policy violations. Swisslos also utilizes alerting within Splunk Enterprise to warn teams about application problems before they become failures and to identify and block complex fraudulent attacks.

“Splunk software helps to keep our games systems online. Additionally, our IT training has been significantly reduced, freeing up my team’s time to work on other critical projects,” said Vuffray.

“Like many Splunk customers, Swisslos first implemented Splunk software to replace legacy technology with a real-time solution for IT operations management. However, after quickly getting value from their Splunk deployment, Swisslos implemented Splunk Enterprise across the organization with vast datasets coming from several systems,” said Olav Strand, director of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, Splunk. “Splunk software is an end-to-end solution for complex IT and big data challenges which can greatly simplify your IT infrastructure and provide significant business benefits, as Swisslos discovered.”

For more information about how Swisslos is utilizing Splunk Enterprise, read the case study or watch the video case study on …read more
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Splunk Delivers New Dimension of Business Insight with Integration to Relational Databases

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Splunk DB Connect Enriches Machine Data with Business Context for More Powerful Insights Across the Enterprise

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Splunk Inc. (NAS: SPLK) , the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, today announced Splunk® DB Connect. Splunk DB Connect delivers reliable, scalable, real-time integration between Splunk Enterprise and traditional relational databases. With Splunk DB Connect, structured data from relational databases can be easily integrated into Splunk Enterprise, driving deeper levels of operational intelligence and richer business analytics across the organization.

“Splunk DB Connect enables organizations to easily combine powerful operational insights from machine data with valuable business context from relational databases. It does the heavy lifting of integration so our users can focus on driving better visibility and intelligence,” said Sanjay Mehta, vice president of product marketing, Splunk. “Splunk DB Connect dramatically enhances the ability for business users to make sense of machine data for real-time business analytics, enabling them to complement existing business intelligence tools by taking advantage of machine data in making critical business decisions.”

“Splunk has conquered the need for analytics and insight from machine data to support IT and the business,” said Tony Cosentino, vice president and research director, Ventana Research. “With Splunk DB Connect, the addition of business context from structured sources delivers new value and actionable metrics for any organization.”

Splunk DB Connect enables organizations to drive more meaningful insights for IT operations, security and business users. For example, IT operations teams can track performance, outage and usage by department, location and business entities. Security professionals can correlate machine data with critical assets and watch lists for: incident investigations, real-time correlations and advanced threat detection using the award-winning Splunk Enterprise. Business users can analyze service levels and user experience by customer in real time to make more informed decisions.


Customer Success with Splunk DB Connect

Community search engine Boardreader uses Splunk software to monitor its web crawlers and other essential business systems. In addition to generating large amounts of machine data on a daily basis, …read more
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McKenney's and Splunk Bring Big Data Spotlight to the Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summ

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McKenney’s and Splunk Bring Big Data Spotlight to the Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Splunk Inc. (NAS: SPLK) , the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, today announced that McKenney’s Inc., in a speech at the Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit in Grapevine, Texas, will describe how it is using Splunk® Enterprise to generate valuable insight from facilities and energy sensors. The session, “McKenney’s Turns Big Data Sources into Better Business Insights” is scheduled to take place Wednesday, March 20 at 9:30 a.m. CDT.

McKenney’s will address how organizations seeking to integrate streams of unstructured data with traditional business intelligence can use Splunk software to gain operational intelligence. The session will also examine how McKenney’s is using Splunk software to analyze data from facility control and energy management sensors for continuous commissioning and advanced fault detection and diagnosis in order to control costs and improve operations. The speakers will include Brian Gilmore, program manager of enterprise intelligence for McKenney’s, and Tapan Bhatt, senior director of solutions marketing for Splunk.

Guido Schroeder, senior vice president of products for Splunk, is also speaking at the summit as part of an industry panel about big data analytics. Schroeder will participate in the panel “The Myth and Reality of Big Data Analytics”, which is scheduled for Tuesday, March 19, at 9:30 a.m. CDT. The panel will cover the finer details of today’s big data analytics architectural approaches, justifications, key challenges and monetization. Audience members will be invited to participate in the debate.

“The big data analytics landscape is rapidly changing the way people think about business intelligence, with more enterprises realizing the need to use their machine data from across the enterprise to develop operational intelligence,” said Schroeder. “It’s crucial that organizations continue the dialogue around business opportunities and even potential stumbling points for big data.”

Splunk will exhibit throughout the event at booth #315.

Register now for .conf2013, the 4th Annual Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference, featuring more than 100 sessions by Splunk customers, partners, experts and employees. .conf2013 is being held September 30-October 3 at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.

About Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit

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