SAN FRANCISCO and AWS SUMMIT, LONDON - April 15, 2015 - Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced that Splunk Cloud™ is generally available (GA) internationally through nine Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) global regions and will be available soon in AWS GovCloud for U.S. government agencies, contractors and businesses. Splunk Cloud has gained significant traction as an enterprise-ready cloud service with a 100 percent uptime service level agreement (SLA). Splunk Cloud offers enterprise scalability of 10+ Terabytes per day. Experience the power of Splunk Cloud first-hand today through the free Splunk Online Sandbox.
“Splunk is a long term, innovative AWS Technology Partner and we are excited to see them extend their reach to new geographies,” said Terry Wise, vice president of worldwide partner ecosystem, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “By ‘going-global’ on AWS, Splunk is able to serve the needs of organizations worldwide, including those moving mission-critical production workloads to the cloud. We are excited to see Splunk’s global footprint increase as we launch more AWS regions around the world.”
“As organizations make a seminal shift to the cloud, we are pleased to extend Splunk Cloud internationally with AWS,” said Marc Olesen, senior vice president and general manager of cloud solutions, Splunk. “Organizations in countries around the world can now take advantage of centralized visibility across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments with all the benefits of software-as-a-service (SaaS).”
Customers in nine of AWS’ global regions will be able to gain significant value from Splunk Cloud across all Splunk use cases, including IT operations, application delivery, security, compliance and business analytics. Customers running Splunk Cloud include 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Chicago Public Schools, Katana1, Lennar Corporation, MindTouch, Polycom, Republic Services Inc., Sophos, theScore and Washington Post.
“Splunk Cloud gives us the analytics we require to support our new Security Operations Center (SOC),” said Ross McKerchar, cybersecurity manager, Sophos. “My team relies on Splunk for real-time reporting, alerting and investigative capabilities to complement Sophos technology and help us protect the business, so we need a reliable solution we can count on 24/7. Splunk Cloud delivered from within the EU provides us the industry leading platform for operational intelligence and security delivered as a high-performance, enterprise-ready cloud service.”
“Splunk Cloud is the backbone of our advanced marketing analytics solution, OptimaHub, and helps us to deliver insights like new product opportunities to the C-suite,” said Nick Russell, co-founder and managing director, Katana1. “We chose Splunk Cloud to take advantage of the ease of management and cost efficiencies a SaaS model offers. Splunk Cloud was easy to get up and running, and it delivers all the same features, benefits and insights of Splunk Enterprise as a reliable, high-performance cloud service.”
“Splunk Cloud is used across Polycom from IT to our services and business centers and delivers invaluable insights with a strong return on investment,” said Garrett Zorigian, director, services strategy and design, Polycom. “Splunk Cloud, being a cloud service run on AWS, saves us upfront resource costs by managing the associated IT infrastructure and also enables us to reallocate our resources more efficiently across the company. For instance, our internal Splunk team spends no time working on administrative IT duties. Instead, they focus solely on delivering analytics services that directly improve the customer experience and Polycom’s workforce communications and collaboration solutions.”
Splunk Cloud includes access to all features of the award-winning Splunk Enterprise platform, including apps, APIs, alerting and role-based access controls. Key features and benefits of Splunk Cloud include:
To learn more about the industry’s first machine data analytics cloud service with 100 percent uptime SLA, visit the Splunk Cloud website.
Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) provides the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence. Splunk® software and cloud services enable organizations to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine-generated big data coming from websites, applications, servers, networks, sensors and mobile devices. More than 9,000 enterprises, government agencies, universities and service providers in more than 100 countries use Splunk software to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce cost. Splunk products include Splunk® Enterprise, Splunk Cloud™, Hunk®, Splunk Light™, Splunk MINT™ and premium Splunk Apps. To learn more, please visit http://www.splunk.com/company.
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