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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | 1999 |
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| Headquarters | Austin, Texas, United States |
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| Website | Enverus.com |
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Splunk Inc. is an American public multinational corporation based in San Francisco, California, that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a Web-style interface.[2]
Splunk (the product) captures, indexes, and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.[3][4]
Splunk's mission is to make machine data accessible across an organization by identifying data patterns,[5] providing metrics, diagnosing problems, and providing intelligence for business operations. Splunk is a horizontal technology used for application management, security and compliance, as well as business and web analytics.[2] As of early 2016, Splunk has over 10,000 customers worldwide.[6]
Splunk is based in San Francisco, with regional operations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia.[7]
History
editMichael Baum, Rob Das[8] and Erik Swan co-founded Splunk Inc in 2003.[9] Venture firms August Capital, Seven Rosen, Ignition Partners and JK&B Capital backed the company.
- ^ "US SEC: Form 10-K Splunk Inc. (FY Jan. 31, 2018)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. March 30, 2018. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ^ a b "How Splunk Is Riding IT Search Toward an IPO — Tech News and Analysis". Gigaom.com. December 17, 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
- ^ Start-Ups Aim to Help Tame Corporate Data, Pui-Wing Tam, Wall Street Journal, September 08, 2009
- ^ Woods, Dan (January 6, 2011). "Business Intelligence and the Data Center". citoresearch.com. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012.
- ^ Central, CIO (December 15, 2010). "How CIOs Should Be Helping Marketers". Forbes.
- ^ "Splunk Inc. Announces Fiscal Third Quarter 2016 Financial Results". Splunk. November 19, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
- ^ Withers, Stephen (December 12, 2016). "Splunk opens new Melbourne HQ". iTWire. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
- ^ Not to be confused with Rob Das, the Dutch film and television actor, director, and writer
- ^ Data Center Search Party: ComputerWorld