Splunk Wins the Datamation Product of the Year Award for Compliance Software

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Splunk, creators of the original IT Search engine, today announced they've received the Product of the Year Award in the Compliance Software category by Jupitermedia's Datamation, a provider of news and analysis for IT managers.

The Datamation 2007 Product of the Year awards recognizes end users' and Datamation readers' choices for achievement and innovation in enterprise hardware and software. The Datamation editorial staff selected the finalists in each category then offered readers a chance to vote for their favorite enterprise products.

Splunk's IT Search engine indexes and securely manages all logs and IT data. System administrators, developers and even business users can search, navigate, alert and report on logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. As a compliance solution, Splunk offers customers the ability to manage, alert and report on logs and IT data for CoBIT, COSO, FFIEC, FISMA, GLBA, HIPAA, ISO17799/BS7799, NISPOM, PCI, SOX without consuming IT resources.

This award is one of a number of recent industry accolades for Splunk. In 2006, Splunk received the InfoWorld 100 Award for cutting-edge troubleshooting implementation and the Computerworld Horizon Award. Splunk was also named one of Gartner's "Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management."

The Product of the Year winners will be further profiled in the coming weeks.

About the Datamation 2007 Product of the Year Awards

Datamation has a long tradition of recognizing and honoring the best IT product vendors through its Product of the Year Awards. For the winners, these annual awards are a mark of distinction and symbol of achievement in a crowded, highly competitive marketplace.

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Datamation.com provides ideas and analysis for IT managers and features case studies and trend-spotting reports on the issues faced by corporate computing professionals and also includes daily news and columns.

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About Splunk

Splunk is software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. Splunk is easy to download, install and use and it's very powerful. Enterprises, government organizations, service providers and more than 75,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Check us out at http://www.splunk.com/ .