Splunk Inc. is an American multinational company based in San Francisco, California, which produces software to locate, monitor, and analyze large data generated machines, through a Web-style interface.
Splunk (product) captures, indexes, and connects real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.
Splunk's mission is to make machine data accessible throughout the organization by identifying data patterns, 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. As early as 2016, Splunk has more than 10,000 customers worldwide.
Splunk is based in San Francisco, with regional operations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
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Michael Baum, Rob Das and Erik Swan founded Splunk Inc. in 2003. Venture Capital Company August, Seven Rosen, Ignition Partners and JK & amp; B Capital supports the company.
In 2007 Splunk has amassed US $ 40 million ; it became profitable in 2009. In 2012 Splunk has an initial public offering, trading under the NASDAQ SPLK symbol.
In September 2013 the company acquired Bugsense, a mobile data analysis company. Bugsense provides a "mobile analytics platform used by developers to improve application performance and improve quality". It provides "software developer tools" to give developers access to data analytics from managed mobile devices from scalable cloud platforms. The number of acquisitions is kept secret.
In July 2015 Splunk acquired Caspida, cybersecurity startup, for US $ 190 million .
In October 2015 Splunk sealed a "cyber security alliance" with US government security contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. to offer a combination of cyberthreat detection and intelligence analysis technology.
In 2016, Splunk promised to donate $ 100 million in software and support to nonprofits and schools over a 10-year period.
On April 9, 2018 Splunk acquired Phantom Cyber ​​Corporation approximately US $ 350 million.
According Glassdoor, this is the fourth highest paid company for employees in the United States in April 2017. In October 2017, Splunk acquired certain technology and intellectual property assets from small rival Rocana.
Release History
Splunk 3.0 was released on August 6, 2007, Splunk 4.0 on July 21, 2009, Splunk 5.0 on October 30, 2012, Splunk 6.0 on October 1, 2013, and Splunk 7.0.0 on September 26, 2017.
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Products
Splunk core offerings collect and analyze the high volume of machine-generated data. It uses standard APIs to connect directly to applications and devices. It was developed in response to requests for understandable and actionable data reporting for executives outside the company's IT department.
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) is an information security and event management solution (SIEM) that provides insights into machine data generated from security technologies such as network, endpoint, access, malware, vulnerability and identity information. This is a premium app that is licensed independently of the Splunk core.
In 2011, Splunk released Splunk Storm, the cloud version of Splunk's core product. Splunk Storm offers turnkey services, managed and hosted for machine data. In 2013, Splunk announced that Splunk Storm would be a free service and expand its cloud offering with Splunk Cloud. In 2015, Splunk turns off Splunk Storm.
In 2013, Splunk announced a product called Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop, which supports accessing, searching and reporting on external data sets located in Hadoop from the Splunk interface.
In 2015, Splunk announces a Light version of Splunk's core product, aimed at a smaller IT and enterprise environment. Splunk debuted Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) in September 2015. ITSI utilizes Splunk's data to provide visibility into IT performance. Software analysis can detect unusual behavior and determine the cause and area affected.
In 2016, Google announced its echo platform would integrate with Splunk to expand areas such as IT operations, security and compliance. The company also announced additional machine learning capabilities for some of its main product offerings, which are installed on top of the platform.
In 2017, Splunk introduced Splunk Insights for ransomware, an analytics tool to assess and investigate potential threats by including event logs from multiple sources. The software is targeted to smaller organizations such as universities. The company also launched Splunk Insights for AWS Cloud Monitoring, a service to facilitate enterprise migration to the Amazon Web Services cloud.
In 2018, Splunk introduced the Splunk Industrial Asset Intelligence, which extracts information from IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) data from multiple sources and presents it to users with important alerts.
Splunkbase
Splunkbase is a community hosted by Splunk where users can find applications and add-ons for Splunk that can enhance Splunk functionality and usability, and provide a fast and easy interface for specific usage cases and/or vendor products.
Applications and add-on Splunk can be developed by anyone, including Splunk itself.
Integration on Splunkbase includes Splunk Application for New Relics, ForeScout Extended Module for Splunk, and Splunk Application for AWS.
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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