SAN FRANCISCO - July 24, 2013 - Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, today announced that Splunk customer Safeway will speak at the Gartner Catalyst Conference 2013 in San Diego about how Safeway is using Splunk® software to improve service delivery and streamline IT operations. The session, "Splunk: Turning Big Data into IT, Security and Business Analytics at Safeway," will take place on Tuesday, July 30 at 10:20 a.m. PDT at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in room Elizabeth F.

Safeway will describe how Splunk software is used across its IT infrastructure to deliver valuable real-time and historical data analytics. The speakers will include Chris Jennewine, director of enterprise systems management, Safeway and Leena Joshi, senior director of solutions marketing, Splunk.

"Today's IT organizations are forced to play a balancing act managing complexity with 24x7 user expectations, " Joshi said. "In this session, the audience will learn firsthand how Safeway uses Splunk software to improve infrastructure visibility and security, to gain insights into customer behavior in real time and to help retire more than two dozen IT tools."

Splunk will exhibit throughout the event at booth #148.

Register now for .conf2013, the 4th Annual Splunk Worldwide Users' Conference, featuring more than 100 sessions by Splunk customers, partners, experts and employees. .conf2013 is being held September 30-October 3 at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.

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