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Splunk Wins Big Data and Cloud Awards

SAN FRANCISCO - March 2, 2015 - Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced that Emilio Umeoka has been named to the list of the 2015 CRN Channel Chiefs while the company is recognized by CRN as one of The 20 Coolest Cloud Software Vendors of 2015. In addition, Fast Company has ranked Splunk as one of the World’s Ten Most Innovative Companies in big data for the third straight year. 

“We are excited to once again be named one of the Most Innovative Big Data Companies,” said Steve Sommer, chief marketing officer, Splunk. “We are amazed every day by the unique, innovative ways our customers continue to find to leverage Splunk software to generate valuable insights from their data.”

Each year, Fast Company ranks the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in a variety of categories, including Big Data. The list recognizes those organizations that are pioneering the world of data analytics through positive and original use cases. 

“It is an honor to be recognized as a Channel Chief, but this award speaks more about Splunk’s entire channel team and all of our partners,” said Emilio Umeoka, vice president Asia Pacific and worldwide partners, Splunk. “There is an incredible opportunity to gain insight from machine data and today’s organizations require a thriving partner ecosystem with significant domain expertise and services to do just that.” 

The annual CRN Channel Chiefs list honors influential executives who are among the most powerful leaders in the IT channel and who hold direct responsibility for driving growth and revenue through channel partners. Winners are selected based on their track record of channel accomplishments, standing in the industry, dedication to the partner community and plans for driving future business innovation and channel growth.

Learn about the Splunk partner ecosystem.

About The Channel Company

The Channel Company, with established brands including CRN, XChange Events, IPED and SharedVue, is the channel community's trusted authority for growth and innovation, For more than three decades, we have leveraged our proven and leading-edge platforms to deliver prescriptive sales and marketing solutions for the technology channel. The Channel Company provides Communication, Recruitment, Engagement, Enablement, Demand Generation and Intelligence services to drive technology partnerships. Learn more at www.thechannelcompany.com.

About Fast Company

Fast Company is the world's leading progressive business-media brand, with a unique editorial focus on innovation in technology, ethonomics (ethical economics), leadership, and design. In print and through digital and social channels, as well as live events, Fast Company reports on and addresses the most progressive business leaders. 

About Splunk Inc.

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 MINT Express™ and premium Splunk Apps. To learn more, please visit http://www.splunk.com/company.

Splunk, Splunk>, Listen to Your Data, The Engine for Machine Data, Hunk, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Light, SPL and Splunk MINT are trademarks and registered trademarks of Splunk Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective owners. © 2015 Splunk Inc. All rights reserved.

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Media Contact
Tom Stilwell
Splunk LLC.
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Ken Tinsley
Splunk LLC.
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