Splunk 4.2 Delivers New Levels of Operational
Visibility
New Version Adds Real-time Alerting, Enhanced Support for Global
Deployments and Improved User Productivity
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Splunk, the
leading provider of operational intelligence software, today
announced the general availability of Splunk 4.2, its software that
collects, indexes and harnesses any machine data generated by an
organization's IT systems and infrastructure -- physical, virtual
and in the cloud.
Splunk 4.2 builds on the innovation of previous releases, adding
real-time alerting, a new Universal Forwarder, improved usability
and performance, and centralized management capabilities for
distributed Splunk deployments.
Splunk will demonstrate the operational intelligence
capabilities of Splunk 4.2 at upcoming SplunkLive! events in
Singapore and Hong Kong on April 12 and 14 respectively. Splunk
customers Nanyang Technological University, Aviva Asia and
Crossroads will each share their Splunk experience at these events.
For more information about SplunkLive!, visit www.splunk.com/page/events.
"This new release has a strong emphasis on supporting
organizations that have deployed Splunk around the globe," said
Erik Swan, Splunk CTO and co-founder. "In Splunk 4.2 we made it
easier to deploy Splunk to tens of thousands of machines, with
simpler data collection and real-time alerting across a global
infrastructure."
Machine data holds a wealth of information that can be used to
obtain operational intelligence and provide valuable insights for
IT and the business. Splunk is the engine for machine data that
helps enterprises improve service levels, reduce operations costs,
mitigate security risks, enable compliance and create new product
and service offerings.
"Our CIO is driving a real-time initiative across the
organization so business users can have greater insights into
operations," said Michael Vierling, associate director,
engineering, AT&T Interactive. "Splunk's ability to correlate
and alert in real-time on events, and rapidly build dashboards
gives us real-time visibility into our infrastructure and the
ability to deliver quickly on our CIO's decree."
Splunk 4.2 new features include:
Real-time alerting. Provides immediate notification and response
for events, patterns, incidents and attacks as they occur.
Universal Forwarder. New dedicated lightweight forwarder delivers
secure, distributed, real-time data collection from thousands of
endpoints with a significantly reduced footprint.
Easier and faster. New ways to visualize data, quick start guides
for new users, integrated workflows for common tasks and up to 10
times faster search experience in large-scale distributed
deployments.
Easier management of Splunk. New centralized deployment monitoring
and license management facilitate the management of multiple Splunk
instances from a single location.
"Splunk 4.2 increases user productivity and our partners and
customers will find Splunk easier to implement and manage," said
Robert Lau, Area VP, Asia Pacific & Japan at Splunk. "The new
release features new self-guided data input and integrated
workflows, enabling users to develop new applications, generate
alerts and reports with ease."
For more on the Splunk 4.2 release:
Download a free copy here: http://www.splunk.com/goto/Download_4_2
Watch the Splunk 4.2 video: http://www.splunk.com/goto/4_2video
Read about what's new in 4.2: http://www.splunk.com/goto/whatsnew
About Splunk
Splunk is the leading provider of operational intelligence
software used to monitor, report and analyze real-time machine data
as well as terabytes of historical data—located on-premise or in
the cloud. Almost half of the Fortune 100 and more than 2,300
enterprises, service providers and government organizations in 74
countries use Splunk to improve service levels, reduce IT
operations costs, mitigate security risks, and drive new levels of
operational visibility.
For a new approach to IT, visit http://www.splunk.com, or visit http://www.splunk.com/download to download a free
copy.
For more information, please contact:
Media Contacts:
Joe Fitzpatrick
Splunk Inc
+1-415-848-8553
[email protected]
Clara So
Splunk Inc
+852-9108-2086
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