Splunk and CloudShare to Showcase the Splunk App for VMware at VMworld® 2012

 Splunk and CloudShare to Showcase the Splunk App for VMware at VMworld® 2012

CloudShare achieves greater visibility into its cloud computing infrastructure
with Splunk® Enterprise and the Splunk App for VMware

PR Newswire

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), the
leading provider of software for real-time operational intelligence, and
CloudShare, the leading provider of pre-production cloud for dev and test,
demos and POCs, will take the stage together at next week's VMworld® 2012 to
discuss how the Splunk App for VMware is helping CloudShare gain deep insight
into its infrastructure performance, customer trends, and business metrics.
The session titled, "How a Cloud Computing Provider Reached the Holy Grail of
Visibility" will take place Wednesday, Aug. 29 from 4 – 5 p.m. (PT) at the
Moscone Center in San Francisco. Leena Joshi, director of solutions marketing
at Splunk, and Elad Gotfrid, director of IT at CloudShare, will share best
practices on managing and monitoring CloudShare's dynamic SaaS environment
with Splunk and the Splunk App for VMware.

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CloudShare uses Splunk software across their entire infrastructure for
monitoring, troubleshooting, and solving customer service issues, as well as
for operational intelligence about their business – understanding capacity
usage per customer, conversion funnels, and more. As an early beta tester of
the Splunk App for VMware, CloudShare has now adopted the application
company-wide to help gain deep insight into the thousands of virtual machines
supported by the company's infrastructure. The Splunk App for VMware provides
CloudShare added visibility into the detailed performance of its virtual
infrastructure, helping it track stressed virtual machines and hosts to better
balance capacity.

"At CloudShare we think of Splunk as our eyes and ears. Splunk software
enables us to understand and oversee every aspect of our operations," said
Gotfrid. "The key asset we achieve from Splunk software is the ability to
correlate business data with performance metrics. Compiling data about our
customers and understanding which resources are being utilized allows us to
understand and plan our capacity based on clear trends we identify."

CloudShare uses the Splunk App for VMware to collect performance statistics,
logs, and events from the virtualization layer and correlate the information
with network, storage, OS and application events. With the extensive
visibility provided by Splunk software, CloudShare is able to contextualize
infrastructure data and track business metrics such as usage and resource
costs per trial and business user. Dashboards created in Splunk and linked to
operational data from physical and virtual sources help guide the whole
organization from network operations and customer support to marketing, sales,
and R&D. Additionally, to help fight fraud, CloudShare uses network device and
firewall information gathered with Splunk software to create attack signatures
that trigger automatic blocks or trigger alerts to network operations that are
then further investigated.

"CloudShare is a great example of how operational intelligence can positively
impact every part of a business, even in complex cloud computing
environments," said Joshi. "The Splunk App for VMware unlocks the value of the
virtualization layer data. It enables companies to put it in the context of
machine data from all layers of their virtualized infrastructure such as host
operating systems, applications, and the underlying server, storage, and
network devices."

"VMware cloud infrastructure environments can benefit from big data
technologies, such as Splunk," said Parag Patel, vice president, global
strategic alliances, VMware. "With VMware cloud infrastructure and Splunk,
cloud service providers can collect and harness critical operational data from
all tiers of their virtualized infrastructure while leveraging the scalability
VMware software provides for public and private clouds."

Watch the Splunk App for VMware in action.

Leading Industry Analysts on the Splunk App for VMware

"Most management tools leave datacenter administrators in the blind when it
comes to virtualization because of their focus on single-technology silos,"
said Dennis Drogseth, vice president of research, Enterprise Management
Associates. "Splunk's breadth and versatility combined with its 'big data'
analytics capabilities—can provide role aware support for virtualization as it
impacts both infrastructure performance and resiliency, and IT service
delivery."

"Monitoring the dynamic nature of virtualization with tools designed for
single-technology silos creates a significant challenge for administrators,"
said Dave Bartoletti, senior analyst, Forrester Research. "There is a growing
need for solutions that provide cross-tier visibility to effectively
troubleshoot, monitor and analyze data across silos and deliver real-time
business insights and operational intelligence."

"Virtualization and the list of current vendor-specific tools can leave
datacenter administrators blindsided with their focus on single technology
silos," said Rachel Chalmers, vice president of research, 451 Research Group.
"Splunk for VMware is a big data, cross-tier approach to tackling the
visibility challenges introduced by virtualization."

Download the Splunk App for VMware now or for more information to Leena
Joshi's blog.

About CloudShare
CloudShare is the leading cloud solution for pre-production focused on
development and testing, training, sales demos, and POCs. CloudShare's
technology makes it easy for application specialists to work in the cloud.
Furthermore, they can efficiently create multi-VM environments, collaborate
with others, and deploy projects into production. No background in IT
infrastructure is required. CloudShare easily allows for the construction and
distribution of simple as well as complex IT applications to anyone with an
internet connection.
To learn more, please visit www.cloudshare.com

About Splunk Inc.
Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) provides the engine for machine data™. Splunk®
software collects, indexes and harnesses the machine-generated big data coming
from the websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that
power business. Splunk software enables organizations to monitor, search,
analyze, visualize and act on massive streams of real-time and historical
machine data. More than 4,000 enterprises, universities, government agencies
and service providers in over 80 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain
operational intelligence that deepens business and customer understanding,
improves service and uptime, reduces cost and mitigates cyber-security risk.
To learn more, please visit www.splunk.com/company.

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2012 Splunk Inc. All rights reserved.

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