Data and Database Management Software
IT Search Software extends data center manageability.
Press Release Summary:
Along with native 64-bit multi-processor support, Splunk v3.0 features interactive reporting for analyzing logs and IT data in real-time with dynamic field extraction. Any report, chart, search or alert can be placed onto personalized dashboard, which can be shared or kept private. Other features include centralized deployment server; search language with statistical, arithmetic, and reporting operators; and scripted inputs.
Original Press Release:
Splunk 3.0 Grows IT Search Beyond Availability to Security, Compliance and Business Intelligence in the Data Center
New features enable faster problem identification, security investigations and proof of compliance with regulations and mandates including ITIL, SOX and PCI
LAS VEGAS, May 22 -- Interop, Booth #254 -- Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine for logs and IT data, today announced Splunk 3.0. The newest version of Splunk adds interactive reporting, dashboards, a more powerful search language, scripted inputs, new levels of scale and performance with native 64-bit multi-processor support and a centralized deployment server. The Splunk 3.0 beta can be downloaded for free today at http://www.splunk.com/.
New Splunk 3.0 features include:
-- Interactive reporting: Analyze any logs and IT data in real time with dynamic field extraction eliminating the need for complex data mapping and set-up. Move seamlessly between unstructured search and structured reporting
-- Dashboards and personalization: Any report, chart, search or alert can be placed onto a personalized dashboard. Dashboards can be shared or private to a single user
-- Expanded search language: Powerful new statistical, arithmetic and reporting operators
-- Scripted inputs: Index the output of any shell script or command line actions, greatly expanding data inputs to any data source
-- 64-bit multi-processor support: Improved indexing and search throughput on 64-bit and multi-processor platforms
-- Deployment server: Centralized management and control of distributed Splunk deployments across large numbers of applications, servers and devices
"IT Search has many applications within the chaotic modern data center, so listening to our customers is essential to hone any new innovation or technology," said Michael Baum CEO and co-founder of Splunk. "Our large and growing community has helped us dramatically expand our vision for IT Search, and focus on adding the capabilities critical to new uses and larger deployments."
Recently, hundreds of current Splunk customers and users have been involved in providing feedback for Splunk 3.0 in an eight city tour that included presentations from customers and partners as well as interactive roundtable discussions about using and deploying IT Search. Customers shared how they are currently using Splunk and how they plan to take advantage of the 3.0 features.
"We have adopted Splunk as a cornerstone of our security program for a major government agency. It just works. It's stable, scalable and extensible," said John Topp, Technical Director, Mantech. "It provides actionable information that allows my incident response program to function at a higher level. Splunk 3.0's real time interactive dashboards and reporting will give us a level of Global Situational Awareness from my Cyber Threat Environment that has never been possible before."
In New York, Jonah Kowall, the Director of Enterprise Tools Architecture for a leading financial information services company said, "Splunk has already had a huge impact by making it much easier for people to share information and pinpoint changes." But he's also eager to upgrade to 3.0. "We're hoping to expand our use of Splunk to new areas such as server configuration management and firewall logging. We critically need many of the new features of Splunk 3.0 such as dashboards and the ability to turn unstructured data into analytical data."
"Splunk has greatly reduced the time in searching for syslog messages to investigate network issues. This is critical to the availability of our network which supports the trading activity of the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange," said Bill O'Brien, Network Specialist, Chicago Mercantile Exchange. "We looked at traditional appliance-based log solutions but they couldn't leverage our existing server investments. For our network architecture and environment, we particularly liked that Splunk was a software solution and not an appliance. The new punctuation filters in Splunk 3.0 will allow us to have more precise searches for Cisco Syslog messages."
New applications of Splunk 3.0 include customer support incident analysis and resolution, change validation and detection, fraud and abuse monitoring, business analysis, electronic discovery requests and long-term compliance data retention. All of these applications share the common themes of overcoming barriers in data access, difficulty in analyzing diverse data, and scattered data locations.
About Splunk
Splunk is software that indexes, manages and enables you to search, alert and report on logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. More than 300 enterprises, government organizations, service providers and more than 100,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Download your own free copy at http://www.splunk.com/.
CONTACT: Patrick McGovern of Splunk Inc., +1-415-848-8410, patrick@splunk.com; or Christopher Fucanan of Atomic PR, +1-415-439-4219, chris.fucanan@atomicpr.com, for Splunk Inc.
