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Splunk IT Search Adds Silver Lining to Cloud Computing
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 18, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --
Splunk, the IT Search company,
today announced that leading next generation technology companies, including
Coghead, Elastra, GoGrid, Mashery, and RightScale, have deployed Splunk IT
Search to strengthen their offerings and reliably deliver services,
applications, platforms and infrastructure, via the cloud. Splunk IT Search
delivers critical infrastructure management and reporting, allowing end users
and cloud providers to prosper through managing available resources and
reliably delivering on their service level agreements.
As end users scale out their infrastructures with the cloud, they are
turning to Splunk to manage, secure and audit the environment, pushing cloud
providers to focus on the operational efficiency of their own infrastructures
and ensuring an overall reliable computing environment. In addition to
promoting cloud computing reliability, these Splunk customers have been able
to migrate to the cloud quickly, taking full advantage of the flexibility of
IT Search.
"Information provided by the Splunk IT Search Platform is vital for
managing mission critical applications on the cloud," said Thorsten von
Eicken, CTO and Founder, RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management.
"By integrating Splunk's offering with our cloud management platform, we are
able to provide our customers with the information they need to manage
standard operational jobs like troubleshooting, enhancing security, and
compliance log management as well as valuable insights into their users'
interaction and relevant business trends."
Splunk customer and the leading provider of enterprise cloud application
management software, Elastra, is using IT Search in the cloud to facilitate
its enterprise-grade application delivery automation, "Our customers rely on
Elastra's products to rapidly configure, deploy and manage enterprise
application systems in public and private computing clouds, so it is essential
that we provide clear visibility and seamlessly deliver their applications in
this dynamic environment. Splunk IT Search helps us make this happen," said
Stuart Charlton, chief software architect, Elastra.
While cloud computing offers great efficiencies and improved economies of
scale, it opens up a new set of IT management challenges including
infrastructure availability, security, policy and support. As more and more
companies move to the cloud they encounter the struggle of using traditional
technologies to monitor and measure these transient environments.
Unfortunately, these incumbent monitoring and management tools were not
designed for the cloud and lack the capabilities needed to keep up with
dynamic environments. Splunk's ability to provide insight into rapidly
changing IT infrastructures enables end users and cloud providers to detect
anomalies, ensure service levels and identify risks quickly. In addition, the
simplicity and flexibility of IT Search makes the transition to the cloud fast
and straightforward, fundamentally changing how cloud-based technology
providers deliver and end-users adopt these infrastructures.
"Traditional IT management and monitoring tools have a hard enough time
keeping up with yesterday's infrastructures," said Erik Swan, chief technology
officer and co-founder, Splunk. "That's why the leading cloud providers are
turning to Splunk IT Search to deliver the visibility their customers need
into critical security, compliance and operational data. The ability to turn
logs, metrics, configurations, messages, and alerts from across any IT
infrastructure, including the cloud, into actionable information has made
Splunk a necessary ingredient for any cloud provider."
Splunk's next generation technology customers represent a list of leaders
in the cloud service provider space:
-- Coghead (http://www.coghead.com/) empowers tech-savvy business people
to develop applications for common business problems. By combining the
benefits of zero infrastructure, drag and drop tools, powerful development
features and more, Coghead is changing the app development game. Coghead's
support team uses Splunk IT Search to reduce the number of case escalations
and help developers troubleshoot applications more effectively. Coghead is
also using Splunk to manage and properly resource its virtualized environment.
-- Elastra (http://www.elastra.com/) is the leading provider of software
for designing, deploying and managing Enterprise application systems in public
and private compute clouds. Elastra is using Splunk IT Search for application
availability and troubleshooting.
-- GoGrid (http://gogrid.com/) is the leading cloud computing, hosted,
Internet service that delivers true "Control in the Cloud(TM)" by enabling
system administrators, developers, IT professionals and SaaS (Software as a
Service) vendors to create, deploy, and control load balanced cloud servers
and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root/administrator access
via an intuitive, Web interface or API. Customers who use Splunk-enabled
servers within the GoGrid cloud enjoy robust resource and troubleshooting
analysis.
-- Mashery (http://www.mashery.com/) is a leading provider of API
management services, giving companies all the ingredients required to get Web
Services up-and-running quickly, easily and successfully while ensuring that
they will scale. Mashery uses Splunk IT Search to properly resource and manage
its customers' installations across traditional, cloud and virtualized
environments.
-- RightScale (http://www.rightscale.com/) is the leader in cloud
computing management. RightScale's Cloud Management Platform delivers the
power of cloud computing, while maintaining complete IT control and
transparency. With over 250,000 servers launched, RightScale is committed to
making it easy to deploy and manage mission critical applications, regardless
of deployment size or complexity, across multiple clouds. RightScale is using
Splunk to help manage standard operational jobs like troubleshooting,
enhancing security, and compliance log management.
To download a free copy of Splunk, please visit:
http://www.splunk.com/download
For information on how to become a Splunk Partner, please visit:
http://www.splunk.com/partners
About Splunk
Splunk is the IT Search company innovating large-scale, high-speed
indexing 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 index it. It's easy to download, install and use, and is very
powerful. More than 750 enterprises, government organizations, and service
providers and more than 250,000 users are achieving higher availability,
investigating security incidents in record time, and meeting compliance
requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Over 50 OEM, System Integrator, Value
Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners have fuelled their
offerings with IT Search. Partners such as BT, Cisco, and F5 Networks are
driving new business with innovative products powered by Splunk. Download your
own free copy today at http://www.splunk.com.
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http://www.splunk.com
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