Splunk

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Splunk Inc.
Type Public Company
Traded as NASDAQ: SPLK
Founded 2003
Founder(s) Michael Baum, Erik Swan, Rob Das
Headquarters San Francisco, California, USA
Key people
  • Godfrey Sullivan (CEO)
  • Michael Baum (founding CEO, Co-founder)
  • Erik Swan (CTO, Co-founder)
  • Rob Das (Chief Architect, Co-Founder)
  • Sheren Bouchakian (VP HR)
  • Dave Conte (CFO)
  • Bill Gaylord (SVP Business Development)
  • Doug Harr (CIO)
  • Lionel Hartmann (VP Customer Support)
  • Robert Lau (VP APAC)
  • Tom Schodorf (SVP Field Operations)
  • Guido Schroeder (SVP Products)
  • Steve Sommer (CMO)
  • Lenny Stein (SVP General Counsel)
Revenue US$198.94 Million (2013)
Employees 600 (2012)
Website splunk.com

Splunk[1][2][3] is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, which produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface.[4]

Splunk (the product) captures, indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.[5][6]

Splunk aims to make machine data accessible across an organization and identifies data patterns,[7] provides metrics, diagnoses problems and provides intelligence for business operation. Splunk is a horizontal technology used for application management, security and compliance, as well as business and web analytics.[4] Splunk has over 3,700 licensed customers in 74 countries, including almost half of the Fortune 100.[8]

The company was started in 2003 by co-founders Michael Baum, Erik Swan and Rob Das.[9] The name "Splunk" is a reference to exploring caves, as in spelunking. Splunk is based in San Francisco, with regional operations across EMEA and Asia and has 475 employees.[10] Splunk is venture funded, having raised 40 million USD by 2007[11] and becoming profitable since 2009.[12] In 2012, Splunk had its initial public offering, trading under NASDAQ symbol NASDAQ: SPLK.

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Products [edit]

Splunk's core products (also called Splunk), can perform real-time and historical search, as well as reporting and statistical analysis. The product can index structured or unstructured textual machine-generated data. Search and analytics operations are specified using SPL (Search Processing Language), created for managing machine-generated big data. Originally based upon Unix Piping and SQL, its scope includes data searching, filtering, modification, manipulation, insertion, and deletion.

In 2011, Splunk introduced Splunk Storm, a cloud-based version of the core Splunk product, which offers a turnkey, managed and hosted service for machine data.

Licensing [edit]

Splunk offers its main software in two license types: —an Enterprise License designed for companies and large organizations, and a Free License[13][14] designed for personal use. The freeware version is limited to 500 MB of data a day, and lacks some features of the Enterprise license edition.

Splunk Storm is offered in both free and paid versions. Users can increase or decrease project storage size as desired.

Patents [edit]

Splunk has been issued U.S. patent number 7,937,344 "Machine Data Web"[15] and U.S. patent number 8,112,425 "Time Series Search Engine".[16]

Customers [edit]

  • Groupon
  • Zynga
  • Bank Of America
  • Akamai
  • Salesforce
  • Goldman Sachs
  • LinkedIn
  • CVS Caremark
  • Expedia Inc.

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "TechRepublic - A Resource for IT Professionals". Management.silicon.com. Retrieved 2013-04-22. 
  2. ^ Burns, Bryan; Killion, Dave; Beauchesne, Nicolas; Moret, Eric; Sobrier, Julien; Lynn, Michael; Markham, Eric; Iezzoni, Chris; Biondi, Philippe; Granick, Jennifer; W. Manzuik, Steve; Guersch, Paul. Security Power Tools. O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN 0-596-00963-1. 
  3. ^ Schubert, Max; Bennett, Derrick; Gines, Jonathan; Hay, Andrew; Strand, John. Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring: Including Plug-Ins and Hardware Devices. Syngress. ISBN 1-59749-267-1. 
  4. ^ a b "How Splunk Is Riding IT Search Toward an IPO — Tech News and Analysis". Gigaom.com. 2010-12-17. Retrieved 2013-04-22. 
  5. ^ Start-Ups Aim to Help Tame Corporate Data, Pui-Wing Tam, Wall Street Journal, September 08, 2009
  6. ^ [1][dead link]
  7. ^ Central, CIO. Forbes http://blogs.forbes.com/ciocentral/2010/12/15/how-cios-should-be-helping-marketers/ |url= missing title (help). 
  8. ^ "Splunk (who?) takes on Google, Microsoft and Facebook for talent in Seattle". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2013-04-22. 
  9. ^ Data Center Search Party: ComputerWorld
  10. ^ Hoge, Patrick (January 21, 2011). "Splunk doubles 2010 revenue". 
  11. ^ Splunk search engine raises $25 million, IT PRO 12 Sep 2007
  12. ^ "IT search company Splunk reaches profitability". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2013-04-22. 
  13. ^ Cash in on free IT management software for a limited time only, Denise Dubie, Network World, November 01, 2009
  14. ^ Free SIM Tools Save Money -- And Maybe Your Data, John Sar, DarkReading, June 12, 2009
  15. ^ 7,937,344 "Machine Data Web"
  16. ^ 8,112,425 "Time Series Search Engine"

External links [edit]

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