Splunk Accelerates, Beats Q4 and Annual 2007 Forecasts

More Than 500 Customers, Growing Partner Ecosystem and Major New Product
Releases Fuel Spectacular Growth in 2007

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Splunk, the IT Search company,
today announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31,
2007. The company beat its sales forecast for the quarter by 35 percent and
achieved 133 percent of its forecast for the fiscal year. Splunk ended the
year with more than 500 enterprise, service provider and government agency
customers.
During the quarter, Splunk added more than 100 new customers and upgraded
40 customers to higher data indexing levels. The three most active industries
contributing to the quarter were financial services, online services,
telecommunications and government agencies. New customers include Bear Stearns
& Company Inc., Orbitz, AT&T Wireless and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA).
Splunk's partner ecosystem continues to account for a growing percentage
of the company's business. More than 25 percent of fourth quarter sales were
through OEM, system integrator and resale partners. New partners added during
the quarter include Radware, Voltage and Penguin Computing.
The fourth quarter also saw the introduction of the Splunk Preview release
program giving customers early access to product features and functionality.
The goal of the program is to provide an early view of new product and
encourage user participation in the product development process. The first two
releases included transaction search and change identification, as well as the
preview of Splunk for Microsoft Windows. Splunk 3.1 also became available in
the fourth quarter.
Major product milestones in 2007 included Splunk 3.0 and Splunk for AIX,
both made available for general download in the third quarter. Delivered only
15 months after the last major version, Splunk 3.0 takes IT Search beyond the
scope of log management and troubleshooting with interactive reporting of
search results, dashboards and personalization, as well as an expanded search
language with new statistical and arithmetic operators. Splunk for AIX allows
customers running mission critical AIX applications to dig into everything
happening at every layer of their AIX systems from one place with Splunk.
"Until now, it made sense to manage data centers in silos -- break it down
into manageable pieces, get the right point tool for the right job and move
through distinct operational areas," said Michael Baum, Splunk's CEO and
co-founder. "But tremendous amounts of data, complex Web applications, and
virtualization have broken out of the silos, are crashing into compliance and
security issues, rendering point tools limited or useless, and merging
operational and business considerations that previously stood alone. To solve
these problems customers need the ability to integrate any IT data from all
their applications, servers and network devices into a broader view -- not
just to make sense of the data, but transform it into valuable information
assets."
About Splunk
Splunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed
indexing and search technology 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 eat it. It's easy to download, install and use,
and is very powerful. More than 500 enterprises, service providers and
government organizations more than 150,000 users are achieving higher
availability, investigating security incidents in record time, and meeting
compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Download your own free
copy at http://www.splunk.com.
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Trisha Ristagno of Splunk Inc., +1-415-848-8474, trisha@splunk.com; or Morgan
Mauritz of CXO Communication, +1-650-462-2969, morgan@cxocommunication.com,
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