Exponant, a leader in delivering groundbreaking solutions using smart technologies and highly skilled people, and the master reseller in sub-Saharan Africa for Splunk, today announced the general availability of Splunk Enterprise 4.3, the latter's flagship software for collecting, indexing and harnessing machine data.
"All kinds of companies are using Splunk to harness the value in their machine data,” commented Erik Swan, CTO and co-founder of Splunk. “With their needs in mind, we've made Splunk 4.3 more powerful and usable for any situation and on any device."
Splunk 4.3 builds upon the innovation of previous product releases, adding compelling benefits for both IT and business users, and its beta program has resulted in positive feedback from its customers:
“Almost everything I do using Splunk's user interface takes half the time in version 4.3,” added Eddie Satterly, senior director of architecture and engineering at Expedia, one of the world's largest online travel agencies. “The new features mean that I am able to do so much more and in a more intuitive way. At Expedia, we have over 2 700 users of Splunk, and being able to provide dashboards on iPads means we can get more data to more people when they want it."
"At Ceryx, messaging and collaboration is our business, and we go to Splunk to monitor service levels and look for abuse,” explained Derek Mock, director of software development at Ceryx, a Toronto-based managed IT services company specialising in private cloud-based messaging and collaboration solutions for enterprise clients. “Having Splunk dashboards available on iPads means we now gain real-time visibility across our infrastructure from wherever we are."
"The data preview feature speeds up the administration of Splunk and saves time so I can deliver services faster to customers and clients," continued Thomas Paulsen, systems administrator at global multichannel retailer Otto Group.
New features in Splunk 4.3 include:
A more powerful user interface providing
* The availability on non-flash-enabled mobile devices.
* Ease of use for business users as they no longer have to edit XML to edit dashboards.
* The ability to access real-time and historical analysis in a single step.
* The ability to access vital granular trend data at-a-glance via sparklines.
Speed and scale enhancements that provide
* Up to 10X faster 'needle in a haystack' searches.
* Up to 10X more concurrent users on the same deployment.
Easier manageability providing
* The ability to preview new data sources before indexing.
* Expanded controls for operational monitoring.
* Easier alignment to complex enterprise security policies.
"Splunk is at the forefront of helping organisations harness their big data," concluded Rachel Chalmers, research director of infrastructure management at The 451 Group. "Splunk 4.3 is an exciting, logical and evolutionary step that embraces mobility and increased ease of use. Splunk 4.3 is especially important for business users, with dashboards that provide insights - integrating real-time and historical data for analysis, and which are easy for business users to personalise on the fly."
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Splunk is the engine for machine data. Splunk software collects, indexes and harnesses the massive machine data continuously generated by the Web sites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that power business. Splunk software enables organisations to monitor, search, analyse, visualise and act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data. More than 3 300 enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers in more than 75 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain operational intelligence that deepens business understanding, improves service and uptime, reduces cost and mitigates cyber security risk.
For further information, please contact Wolfgang Selzer; tel. 012 663 0160; fax 012 663 5678; e-mail wolf@exponant.com.
Exponant
Exponant, originally founded in 1998, is a software, services and consulting company that includes a significant focus on monitoring and detection solutions in the areas of security, operations and application management.
In this regard, it is the master reseller in sub-Saharan Africa for Splunk and is a reseller for many global security brands such as AlienVault, Check Point Software Technologies, Guidance Software, Imperva, Palo Alto, TippingPoint, Trend and WebSense.
Although not exclusively focused on any specific markets, it is very strong in the financial, telecommunications, mining and engineering sectors.
Exponant is rated as a level 3 contributor BBBEE company and has customers from both the private and public sectors.
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