Search company Splunk launches in UK
Published: 03 Oct 2008 17:32 BST
After launching two years ago, the enterprise search and systems management company Splunk has chosen the UK for its first European office.
Brian Haynes, newly appointed vice president of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said the company is currently setting up its field operation for Europe. While he is the first full-time employee in the UK, he said they will have others in place shortly. The company headquarters is based in San Francisco.
"The company is still expanding very quickly," Haynes said. "We are up to 750 paying customers and, so far, we have had 250,000 downloads of our software."
Splunk is a search company that offers "flexible input methods [to] index logs, configurations, traps and alerts, messages, scripts and code and performance data from… applications, servers and networks devices", Haynes said.
The company's product is aimed at corporate users, and works by searching across the network and answering IT managers questions about who is using the network, what resources are available and so on. Haynes claimed it does this very quickly and inexpensively in comparison to standard systems-management tools.
"You can try the software out for free for as long as you like," Haynes explained. With the free trial, a user can download up to 500MB of data. Users with smaller systems that can stay within the limit are free to use the software for as long as they like. Although it was pointed out to him that this was not a lot of data capacity for a systems-management tool working across a corporate network, Haynes said 500MB was "just a limit on the log files not the data files". The log files are the core record of what data is being stored and are generally made up of a short line of code. Each item will point to where the records themseves can be found and those records can be in gigabytes.
If the user does need to go over 500MB in terms of log files, the cost of using Splunk depends upon the size of the system, the number of files and other variables.
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