Splunk Opens Regional Headquarters in Hong Kong to Support
Exploding APAC Demand for Real-time Operational Intelligence
Enterprise Customers Across Asia Pacific Add Splunk to Gain
New Customer Insights, Reduce Costs and Manage Risk
Singapore – June 20, 2011 – Splunk, the leading provider of operational intelligence
software, today announced the opening of its APAC regional headquarters in Hong Kong to
support growing customer demand in Asia Pacific countries. Splunk is experiencing rapidly
accelerating adoption in the region across industries and sectors including telecom, online
services, banking, technology, retail, and travel.
Splunk added China Eastern Airlines in China, Hynix Semiconductors in Korea, SOFTBANK
PAYMENT SERVICES in Japan, Bakrie Telecom in Indonesia and Hostworks and Seven
Network in Australia, among others, as new customers in APAC during the first quarter
ending April 30, 2011. Enterprises worldwide are looking to Splunk to gain actionable
business insights from massive machine data, one of the most challenging and fastest
growing segments of “big data.” Unlike traditional data management tools, Splunk is
specifically architected for the size, complexity and rapid growth of machine data.
To help drive customer success in the region, Splunk has doubled its personnel in the region
and increased local training resources. “Asia Pacific represents a key market for Splunk and
we are thrilled to see customers use the product to gain the operational intelligence critical
to business success,” said Robert Lau, Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan. “Along with
strengthening our APAC presence, we have successfully extended our local support
capabilities and enhanced service levels for all clients in the region.”
Splunk is software that provides end-to-end visibility across an IT infrastructure–whether it
be physical, virtual or in the cloud. The visibility achieved using Splunk provides IT and
business leaders with real-time operational intelligence from their machine data.
“Splunk has helped us facilitate the journey from firefighting to a more pro-active, strategic
IT team. It really allows us to leverage the data we have at our fingertips. Now we have the
ability to do more, identify important events before they happen, and better plan for the
future,” said Shaun Butler, Senior Technology Specialist, Corporate Express Australia.
Splunk unlocks new insights from machine data to deliver the operational intelligence
organizations need to optimize IT and the business:
· Application Management–end-to-end visibility across the entire application stack
to improve the user experience by dramatically reducing downtime and escalations
· Security and Compliance–flexible and massively scalable solution for incident
investigations and real-time security monitoring
· Infrastructure and IT Operations Management–proactive, real-time monitoring
across the IT infrastructure – physical, virtual or cloud – to detect and address
network, server and storage issues
· Business Analytics and Web Intelligence–an integrated solution for real-time
analytics of machine data enabling a definitive view of what’s happening in the
business and why
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 onpremise
or in the cloud. Almost half of the Fortune 100 and more than 2,800 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
Yvette Yeo
Text 100 Public Relations
+65 6603 9015
yvette.yeo@text100.com.sg
