Splunk Honored with San Francisco Business Times' 2011 Technology & Innovation Award for Fastest-Growing Company

SAN FRANCISCO, May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Splunk, the leading provider of operational intelligence software, today announced that it has been named the Fastest Growing Company at the San Francisco Business Times 2011 Tech & Innovation Awards. Splunk recently announced it added 286 new customers in the first quarter for a total of 2,600+ customers in 78 countries worldwide.

The judges selected Splunk because of the company's fast growth since its founding in 2005. Splunk recently stated publicly first quarter revenue growth of 68 percent over the same period last year. From an article profiling the company, the San Francisco Business Times notes, "As the number of different data-spewing devices, ranging from mobile phones to credit card readers, has mushroomed in recent years however, the uses for Splunk's technology have multiplied, and the San Francisco company today is growing at a blistering rate."

"Splunk is poised to continue our rapid growth as IT and business users discover new ways to derive value from machine data," said Splunk CEO Godfrey Sullivan. "The Splunk team is thrilled to receive this recognition from the San Francisco Business Times. This award helps validate our continuing commitment to provide customers with the operational intelligence they need to drive better business decisions."

The article detailing Splunk's growth is available in the San Francisco Business Times May 20 issue, which can be read here: http://tinyurl.com/3vlhh5o.

About Splunk

Splunk is the leading provider of operational intelligence software used to monitor, report and analyze real-time machine data as well as terabytes of historical data – located on-premise or in the cloud. Almost half of the Fortune 100 and more than 2,600 enterprises, service providers and government organizations in 78 countries use Splunk to improve service levels, reduce IT operations costs, mitigate security risks, and drive new insights for IT and the business.

For more information please visit www.splunk.com.

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