Splunk
| Public company | |
| Traded as | NASDAQ: SPLK |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Founders | Michael Baum, Rob Das and Erik Swan |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
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| Products | Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Light, Splunk Cloud, Hunk |
| Revenue | US$949.95 Million (2016) |
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Number of employees
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2800 (2016) |
| Website | www |
Splunk is an American multinational corporation based in San Francisco, California, that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface.
Splunk (the product) captures, indexes, and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards, and visualizations.
Splunk's mission is to make machine data accessible across an organization by identifying data patterns, providing metrics, diagnosing problems, and providing intelligence for business operations. Splunk is a horizontal technology used for application management, security and compliance, as well as business and web analytics. As of early 2016, Splunk has over 10,000 customers worldwide.
Splunk is based in San Francisco, with regional operations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and has over 1700 employees.
Michael Baum, Rob Das and Erik Swan co-founded Splunk Inc in 2003.Venture firms August Capital, Seven Rosen, Ignition Partners and JK&B Capital backed the company.
By 2007 Splunk had raised 40 million USD; it became profitable in 2009. In 2012 Splunk had its initial public offering, trading under NASDAQ symbol SPLK.
In September 2013 the company acquired Bugsense, a mobile-device data-analytics company. Bugsense provides "a mobile analytics platform used by developers to improve app performance and improve quality". It supplied a "software developer kit" to give developers access to data analytics from mobile devices that it managed from its scalable cloud platform. The acquisition amount was undisclosed.
In July 2015 Splunk acquired Caspida, a cybersecurity startup, for $190 million.
In October 2015 Splunk sealed a "cybersecurity alliance" with U.S. government security contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. to offer combined cyberthreat detection and intelligence-analysis technology.
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