Splunk Drives Infrastructure Management Discussions at NaSTEC 20 Conference

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry experts from Splunk, leader in IT data search software, will lead several IT infrastructure sessions at NaSTEC 20 in Chicago, Illinois, October 20-21, 2006. NaSTEC is the annual technical conference of the Network and Systems Professionals Association (NaSPA).

Michael Baum, chief executive officer at Splunk will deliver a presentation that will highlight the complexity and scale of on-demand environments. Michael will address the velocity of data generated by next generation data centers, emerging tools that enable system administrators to quickly find what's happening with their distributed applications and strategies to troubleshoot more effectively. Michael's presentation, "Diagnostics: Finding the Problem is the Problem," is on Saturday, October 21 from 9:00-10:15 a.m. CDT.

Sessions: In addition to Michael Baum's presentation, Splunk will deliver the following technical presentations in the "Debugging with Logfiles" track. "Setting up Your Logging Infrastructure" Friday and Saturday, October 20 and 21, 10:30-1145 a.m. CDT Mark Cohen, senior customer support and long-time sysadmin, will address log rotation and common tools, offline archiving and how to get logs centralized with specific logging infrastructure components. Attendees will learn investigation best practices and methods for securing logging infrastructures, anonymizing logs and preventing unauthorized access and tampering of logs. "Logging and Compliance" Friday and Saturday, October 20 2:30-3:45 p.m. CDT and October 21, 10:30-11:45 a.m. CDT Christina Noren, vice president product management and support, will address reporting based on log data, compliance-mandated activities, security event management, review and signoff of specific individual or summarized security events, root cause investigations, and monitoring employee activity. "Working with Logs from Specific Technologies" Friday and Saturday, October 20 4:00-5:15 p.m. CDT and October 21, 1:00-2:15 p.m. CDT Christina Noren and Mark Cohen will provide an in-depth look at MTA logs for Sendmail, Exim, Postfix and Exchange. Topics will address logging relaying attempts, queue failures, tracking mail paths, and virus detection and removal. Attendees will also learn about web server logs and configuration, configuring Apache to log, and Tomcat Java Application Server logs. Event: NaSTEC 20 Sheraton Chicago Northwest Hotel Arlington Heights, IL Dates: October 20-21, 2006 URL: http://www.naspa.com/index.php?q=nastec About Splunk

Splunk is the search engine for IT data. It's 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 and more than 60,000 users are achieving higher availability, meeting compliance requirements and cutting IT costs with Splunk. Based in San Francisco, Splunk is a private company funded by August Capital, JK&B Capital and Sevin Rosen Funds. Check us out at http://www.splunk.com/ .