To learn more, please visit: SplunkSplunk is the IT Search company radically changing the way organizationsmanage, secure and audit their IT infrastructures. Only Splunk enables you tosearch, analyze, monitor and report on data from any application, server ornetwork device in real time to troubleshoot outages, investigate securityincidents, meet compliance requirements, and more, in minutes instead of hoursor days. Now,with Splunk Manager, administrators can now manage their Splunkinstallations centrally and delegate management of Splunk todepartmentsand users.--The Splunk Manager also provides more comprehensive role-based accesscontrols. The wizard makes it easyfor Tier 1 support or marketing folks to build the reports they need.

The newcustomizable UI is a huge improvement--it opens up many more use cases forus." Vodafone"In addition to the obvious speed and scalability enhancements in Splunk 4,the release also has hundreds of cool new improvements that will make my teammore productive and help us to expand the benefits of Splunk to many differentusers." SwisscomAbout Splunk 4Eighteen months, over 1,800 enhancements and 50+ features are included inSplunk 4. These IT Apps dramatically expand the utility and value the Splunkengine delivers to customers.In addition, with Splunk 4, users can easilynavigate from one installed App to another, for instance, while managing asecurity incident a user can move from the Enterprise Security Suite App tothe Change Management App to see if a configuration change has impacted aninvestigation, saving them valuable time."Using the same set of data, Splunk 4 provides sysadmins, security analysts,auditors, and CISOs the ability to leverage the custom dashboards, views, orapps they need to get their jobs done. We plan to introduceSplunk to other groups in the Authentication business unit to accomplishsimilar productivity gains."Splunk understands how customer needs are diverse and constantly changing, andthrough this new release, users now have the power to easily develop anddeploy IT Apps running on the Splunk engine. In addition to customersdeveloping their own IT Apps and dashboards running on Splunk, an increasinglybroad set of apps are becoming available for use from Splunk and Splunktechnology partners: examples include Enterprise Security, PCI Compliance, andChange Management from Splunk, and partner Apps for use with F5, VMware, andBlue Coat. "With Splunk 4 we were easily able to build role-based,custom dashboards to give our service desk views into the data needed toresolve issues the first time and avoid escalations. Building on the success of itspredecessor release, Splunk 4 significantly improves an organization's abilityto manage, secure and audit their entire IT infrastructure. Re-architected andsupercharged, Splunk 4 has infused IT Search with lightning-fast speed and ahighly customizable user interface that enables everyone from sysadmins toexecs to realize the benefits of Splunk.

Significant usability enhancements,combined with the Splunk track record of fast deployment, help ensure Splunk 4users will be up and productive quickly to deliver a fast return on theirinvestment."Splunk 4 unleashes the massive potential of IT Search," said Erik Swan, CTOand co-founder, Splunk. The release also shatters the speed of previous releaseswith up to 10x faster search and 2x faster indexing, radically enhancing ITissue resolution times and incident investigations, giving users the power toindex terabytes per day and search on massive amounts of IT data to deliverresults in seconds on low-cost commodity server hardware."We are seeing dramatically faster search and indexing rates -- in the rangeof roughly 10x faster searches and 2x faster indexing speeds," said SeanDelaney of VeriSign. Customer IT management and security challenges will alwaysbe at the forefront of Splunk innovation. Utilizing input from customers and a community of passionateusers, Splunk IT Search built its reputation with powerful capabilities totroubleshoot outages, investigate security incidents, and demonstratecompliance, providing a new and vastly better approach to helping ITprofessionals get their jobs done. Today, with the release of Splunk 4, thecompany continues to innovate by dramatically improving the speed, scale,usability and manageability of this pioneering IT Search technology.Founded by experienced IT pros to overcome the limits presented by manualprocesses, point solutions and proprietary technologies, the Splunk visionremains unchanged. In 2006 Splunk changedthe game with its release of the "by IT for IT" Splunk IT Search technology.Since then, the success of Splunk and IT Search is well chronicled,consistently winning awards and recently having passed the 1,000-licensedcustomer mark. Visit for more information.iSECUREtrac Contact:Meg WanekEmail Contact(402) 537-0022Investor Relations:Barwicki Investor RelationsAndrew J.