San Francisco, California – (The Hosting News) – October 1, 2007 – Search engine, Splunk, has partnered with system integration company, NTT DATA Corporation, to resell Splunk in combination with existing solutions and for use in large-scale data center management.

Shin-ichi Yamada, Executive Vice President and CTO of NTT DATA remarked, ”Splunk is a perfect solution to introduce to the Japanese market. Our clients are very focused on gaining operational efficiencies, reducing operating costs and improving their IT operations. Splunk software has proven to do this very cost-effectively. In addition, as our customers address JSOX and other compliance mandates, Splunk offers the capabilities needed to quickly meet these requirements.”

The partnership complements NTT Data’s medium-term management goals, adding a powerful new software technology to their list of world class IT solutions. Splunk IT Search bridges the gap created by silos of IT infrastructure data in enterprise and service provider environments. Splunk makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device from a single location in real time. Splunk improves IT economics by reducing the time to troubleshoot problems and cutting the cost of operations in areas like application management, security operations, and regulatory compliance. With this partnership, NTT Data aims to gain 10 percent of the log management solution market share in Japan by the end of fiscal year 2010.

Godfrey R. Sullivan, President and CEO of Splunk offered, ”We are thrilled that a partner as prestigious as NTT DATA has evaluated and selected our software for both their internal use and for reselling to their clients throughout Japan. The Japanese market represents a tremendous opportunity for Splunk, and this partnership with NTT DATA is an important milestone for our company.”

Traditional approaches to managing, securing, and auditing IT operations are typically complex, expensive, time-consuming to deploy, and limited to a small set of IT data sources. With Splunk IT Search, companies can now view all the data from every component of their IT infrastructures. Users can search the data quickly, identify the source of application failures or problems, investigate security incidents, easily generate the reports needed for compliance purposes, and more. With Splunk, finding and fixing problems, stopping an attacker or tracing transaction issues is made faster and easier.

More than ever before, IT infrastructures are far more mission critical, vulnerable to security threats and scrutinized for compliance. Trends such as virtualization, which promise to provide significant operating savings for companies, further increase the challenge of effectively managing IT operations. IT Search arms network engineers, system administrators, security and compliance analysts, developers, customer support, help desk staff, and even business users with an up-to-the-moment understanding of what’s happening within the IT infrastructure. IT Search enables companies to make their IT staff far more productive, particularly essential in today’s economic climate.

Splunk is used in areas such as:

• Operations: pinpoint and recover from problems quickly; keep applications, servers and networks running
• Security: fast, in-depth incident investigation and response to lower exposure and risk
• Compliance: meet mandates and requirements for IT data management without disrupting operations
• Log Collection: turn terabytes of logs into actionable information, Splunk transforms capturing and storing logs into providing powerful operational insight

NTT DATA Corporation is the top system integration company in Japan, with a long record of accomplishments in large-scale system integration, network service and other areas.

Splunk is the IT Search company innovating large-scale, high-speed indexing 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 index it. It’s easy to download, install and use, and is very powerful. More than 900 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 300,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time, and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Over 50 OEM, System Integrator, Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners have fuelled their offerings with IT Search. Partners such as BT, Cisco, and F5 Networks are driving new business with innovative products powered by Splunk.

To learn more, please visit: www.splunk.com.

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