Splunk

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Splunk Inc.
Public company
Traded as SPLK
Founded 2003
Founder Michael Baum, Rob Das and Erik Swan
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
Key people
  • Rob Das (chief architect)
  • Erik Swan (senior advisor)
  • Michael Baum (founding CEO)
Revenue US$267.94 Million (2014)
Number of employees
 1000 (2014)
Website splunk.com

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

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.[2][3]

Splunk aims to make machine data accessible across an organization and identifies data patterns,[4] 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.[1] Splunk has over 7,900 customers worldwide.[5]

The company was started in 2003 by co-founders Michael Baum, Rob Das and Erik Swan.[6] 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 over 900 employees.[7] Splunk is venture funded, having raised 40 million USD by 2007[8] and became profitable in 2009.[9] In 2012, Splunk had its initial public offering, trading under NASDAQ symbol SPLK. In September 2013, the company bought Bugsense, a mobile device data analytics company.[10]

Products[edit]

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 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 released Splunk Storm, a cloud-based version of the core Splunk product. Splunk Storm offers a turnkey, managed and hosted service for machine data.[11]

In 2013, Splunk announced a product called Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop, which supports accessing, searching, and reporting on external data sets located in Hadoop from a Splunk interface.[12]

In 2013, Splunk announced that Splunk Storm would become a completely free service and expanded its cloud offering with Splunk Cloud.[13]

Licensing[edit]

Splunk offers its main software in two license types: —an Enterprise License designed for companies and large organizations, and a gratis License[14][15] 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.

As of the release of Splunk Cloud, Splunk Storm is free and includes 20GB of data storage.[16]

Uses[edit]

Splunk was designed for use in information technology operations; it is also used in other ways.[17] Users in IT operations include Metropcs,[18] Ceryx,[19] and Denver Water.[20] Cars.com,[21][22] Domino's Pizza,[23] and National Public Radio[24] are among those who use it for web analytics. In the Internet of Things it is used by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration Department of Drainage and Sewage to send alerts,[25] by Eglin Air Force Base for energy conservation,[26] by Nest Labs to analyze thermostat data,[citation needed] by iRhythm to check on product performance[citation needed] and by an elevator company to monitor elevator usage.[27] In computer security it is used by the University of Connecticut,[28] and by federal and state agencies.[29] It is used to help with regulatory compliance by Barclays bank,[30][31] Credit Suisse,[citation needed] Monster.com, [32] and Sportsbet.com.au.[33]

Patents[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "How Splunk Is Riding IT Search Toward an IPO — Tech News and Analysis". Gigaom.com. 2010-12-17. Retrieved 2013-04-22. 
  2. ^ Start-Ups Aim to Help Tame Corporate Data, Pui-Wing Tam, Wall Street Journal, September 08, 2009
  3. ^ [1][dead link]
  4. ^ Central, CIO (2010-12-15). "How CIOs Should Be Helping Marketers". Forbes. 
  5. ^ "Splunk's (SPLK) CEO Godfrey Sullivan on Q2 2015 Results - Earnings Call Transcript". 
  6. ^ Data Center Search Party: ComputerWorld
  7. ^ Hoge, Patrick (January 21, 2011). "Splunk doubles 2010 revenue". 
  8. ^ Splunk search engine raises $25 million, IT PRO 12 Sep 2007
  9. ^ "IT search company Splunk reaches profitability". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2013-04-22. 
  10. ^ "Splunk Announces Agreement to Acquire BugSense". Splunk. Retrieved 2013-09-16. 
  11. ^ "Splunk Storm brings log management to the cloud". InfoWorld. 2012-08-28. 
  12. ^ "Splunk Spawns Hunk Hadoop Tool". Information Week. 2013-06-18. 
  13. ^ "Splunk Announces General Availability of Splunk Cloud". Wall Street Journal Marketwatch. 2013-10-01. 
  14. ^ Cash in on free IT management software for a limited time only, Denise Dubie, Network World, November 01, 2009
  15. ^ Free SIM Tools Save Money -- And Maybe Your Data, John Sar, DarkReading, June 12, 2009
  16. ^ "Splunk Unveils Splunk Cloud". Cloud Hosting. 2013-10-04. 
  17. ^ "Splunk CEO: Unintended use cases important to machine data business". Computer Weekly. 2013-04-30. 
  18. ^ "Carriers call up mobile data". Financial Times. 2013-03-18. 
  19. ^ "Splunk Enterprise Helps Ceryx Achieve ROI of 200 percent". Information Technology. 2013-01-17. 
  20. ^ "SDenver Water Uses Big Data to Improve Efficiency". Government Technology Magazine. 2013-10-04. 
  21. ^ "Big data drives high performance for Cars.com". Information World. 2013-10-24. 
  22. ^ "Big data drives high performance for Cars.com". Fierce CIO. 2012-10-24. 
  23. ^ "Security tool delivers surprise insights to Domino's Pizza". Network World. 2012-12-02. 
  24. ^ "NPR Deploys Splunk for Web Analytics". CIO Magazine. 2011-03-24. 
  25. ^ "Erecting Operational Intelligence Using Machine Data". Datanami. 2013-04-09. 
  26. ^ "Eglin Air Force Base Deploys Sensors to Save Energy". Energy Manager Today. 2013–2013.  Check date values in: |date= (help)
  27. ^ "Our connected future: what to expect when elevators and toys start phoning home". GigaOM. 2013-05-10. 
  28. ^ "Can Big Dats Help Universities Tackle Security BYOD?". CIO Magazine. 2012-07-31. 
  29. ^ "Can automated security put agencies a step ahead of the hackers?". GCN. 2013-06-14. 
  30. ^ "Barclays tackles complex regulatory environment with Splunk". Computerworld UK. 2013-04-18. 
  31. ^ "'Without Splunk we might be taken out of the market,' says Barclays". Computing Magazine UK. 2013-04-19. 
  32. ^ "Monster Chooses Splunk For Big Data Security". Information Week Healthcare. 2012-11-14. 
  33. ^ "Sportsbet reduces pain of PCI compliance". CIO Magazine. 2013-05-09. 

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