Software facilitates network IT change management.

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Splunk for Change Management continuously audits all configurations and changes across datacenter components, detects unauthorized changes, validates change deployment, and discovers service-impacting changes during incident response. Solution lets users leverage indexing, search, alerting, and reporting capabilities across all IT data to proactively identify unauthorized changes and accelerate incident resolutions.



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Splunk for Change Management Brings Integrated Change Audit, Detection and Validation



Latest Splunk Application Addresses Root Cause of Many Datacenter Problems

INTEROP, LAS VEGAS, April 29 -- Splunk, the IT Search company, today 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 Change Management lets organizations leverage Splunk's powerful indexing, search, alerting and reporting capabilities across all IT data including configurations, change audit events, error logs and service desk tickets to proactively identify unauthorized changes and resolve incidents faster. Splunk leverages a single IT data platform for operations, security, compliance and business intelligence and is changing a market landscape formerly fragmented into hundreds of niche tool silos, and driving major increases in IT efficiency.

Despite a heightened awareness of the importance of change management, many companies continue to struggle with high levels of IT incidents. While there are multiple change detection tools available they are expensive, complicated systems that keep change management in a silo. They represent yet one more console in environments where there are already dozens of tools that don't work together. This traditional approach is disconnected from incident response processes and cut off from other sources of IT data required to effectively manage change and understand system configuration and behavior.

"While there are multiple change detection tools available they're expensive, complicated and keep change management in a silo. It's just one more console in environments where there are already dozens of tools that don't work together. This traditional approach is disconnected from incident response processes and cut off from other sources of IT data you need to effectively manage change and understand system configuration and behavior," said Harper Mann, senior product manager, availability applications, Splunk. "Splunk brings change audit events and configuration data together with activity and error logs so you can connect change with actual system and user behavior. And it does so cost-effectively because it leverages the existing Splunk platform and the IT data already indexed for operations, security and compliance".

Splunk for Change Management Features & Enhancements

-- Out-of-the-box dashboards with over 40 reports showing changes across all datacenter components including applications, servers and network devices.
-- Predefined alerts that detect unauthorized change on the basis of configuration variances and correlation with service desk systems.
-- Predefined searches to help identify service-impacting changes quickly
-- Integration with service desk systems to close the loop on change management by validating the effect of change on system behavior.

Product Pricing & Availability

A 30-day free trial is available at: www.splunkbase.com/apps/All/Availability/app:Splunk+for+Change+Manageme nt

Pricing starts at $4,000 and requires a Splunk Enterprise license

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/.

CONTACT: Trisha Ristagno of Splunk Inc., +1-415-848-8474, trisha@splunk.com; or Katie Watson of Voce Communications, +1-415-228-2589, kwatson@vocecomm.com

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