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The recently unveiled Splunk (News - Alert) Cloud is a new service designed to deliver the power of the Splunk Enterprise as a cloud service.

Along with the introduction of Splunk Cloud, Splunk also announced that another cloud-based service, Splunk Storm, will significantly expand its free developer offerings to 20GB of total storage per month.

Dejan Deklich, vice president of cloud engineering at Splunk, commented, “We are expanding our offering because we heard our customers loud and clear – they want Splunk Enterprise as a cloud service. Delivering the enterprise-class Splunk Cloud, based on award-winning, patented technology, enabled us to also make Splunk Storm free. This is exciting because we are now giving a free service to developers who have to pay for the same results from other vendors.”

According to the company, the Splunk Enterprise is the engine for machine data. It collects indexes and harnesses the machine data generated by users’ infrastructure and applications – whether they are located in their data center or in a cloud environment. The solution’s capability to monitor and analyze machine data regardless of location gives users the ability to retrieve valuable operational insights from the cloud.

Users can prevent outages, troubleshoot problems and investigate security incidents with real-time visibility and operational insights delivered by Splunk Cloud. The new service gives users access to all of the features of Splunk Enterprise, such as support for apps, APIs, alerting and role-based access controls, while taking away any administrative overhead around patching and maintenance. It also supports all core Splunk Enterprise use cases including application management, digital intelligence, IT operations management, security and more.

By providing an enterprise-class cloud service with all of the features of its flagship product, Splunk is said to be making a strong statement about doing business in the cloud.