Machine Data Is the Most Challenging, Complex and Fastest
Growing Area of Big Data
SAN FRANCISCO, June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Splunk( http://www.splunk.com
), a leading provider of Operational Intelligence software, today
announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the
company a new patent for organizing and understanding machine data
through use of a "machine data web." A Splunk-created machine data
web can be searched, browsed, navigated, analyzed and visualized
enabling IT professionals and businesses to solve a wide range of
mission-critical problems, all without the inherent limitations of
traditional approaches.
"Eight years ago, we began thinking about the challenges that
result from information systems generating vast amounts and
disparate types of machine data across physical and virtual
environments both within data centers and in the cloud," said Erik
Swan, co-founder and CTO, Splunk. "This information is extremely
valuable to IT and business users. However, there was no unified
way to organize and extract actionable insights from the massive
machine data generated across diverse sources such as web servers,
application servers, databases, and networks. That is what we set
out to create with Splunk."
Splunk's Machine Data Web patent includes turning machine data
into a machine data web. A machine data web is created by
organizing machine data into events representing discrete
activities, and dynamically linking events together representing
larger, more complex activities. Much like the World Wide Web is a
hyperlinked information space of documents and web sites, a machine
data web is an interconnected information space of information
system events and activities. The machine data web can be searched,
browsed and navigated, and analyzed as a proxy for the
information-processing environment itself. Splunk's technology has
been granted U.S. Patent No. 7,937,344.
The volume and business-critical nature of machine data has
exploded with the growth of mobile devices, location based data,
the web, online commerce, social media, IP-connected devices and
sensors, RFID, and other sources that extend far beyond traditional
IT systems. "The volume and speed with which machine data is
generated make it difficult to collect and organize for analysis
often requiring sophisticated parallel processing frameworks," said
David Menninger, VP & Research Director, Ventana Research.
"Splunk has been tackling this problem with a unique solution that
is generating a significant amount of commercial success."
"Our CIO is driving a real-time dashboarding initiative across
the organization," said Noah Gift, Associate Director AT&T
Interactive. "Splunk's ability to ingest and correlate large
amounts of machine data generated by our infrastructure and rapidly
build dashboards gives us the real-time insights we need to deliver
early on our CIO's decree."
Over 2,600 customers in 78 countries use Splunk to make their
machine data accessible, useful and valuable to IT and throughout
their organizations. Unlike other approaches to big data, Splunk
uniquely offers a free version that users can download and start
seeing results in minutes or hours, rather than months.
Additionally, the free version enables users to scale their usage
of Splunk as their needs expand. To download Splunk for free visit:
http://www.splunk.com/download
.
Additional Resources:
-- Definition of Machine Data
http://www.splunk.com/view/what-is-machine-data/SP-CAAACDC
-- Download the Guide to Splunk and Operational Intelligence
http://www.splunk.com/web_assets/pdfs/secure/Splunk_Guide_to_Operational_Intelligence.pdf
-- Why you Need Operational Intelligence Whitepaper from CITO
Research
http://www.splunk.com/web_assets/pdfs/secure/Why_You_Need_Operational_Intelligence.pdf?analyticarchitectures
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 2,600
enterprises, service providers and government organizations in 78
countries use Splunk to improve service levels, reduce IT
operations costs, mitigate security risks, and drive new insights
for IT and the business.
For more information, please visit www.splunk.com
Media Contact:
Clara So
Splunk Inc
+852-9108-2086
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Erica Pompen
Text 100 Public Relations
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