LONDON, October 2 /PRNewswire/ --

Splunk (http://www.splunk.com), the IT Search company, today announces
the appointment of Brian Haynes as Vice President Sales in the Europe, Middle
East & Africa (EMEA) region. The appointment of Haynes follows Splunk's
continued and exceptional growth -- in Q2 alone Splunk added 94 new customers
and upgraded 45 existing customers to higher data indexing levels. The
company ended Q2 with more than 750 enterprise, service provider and
government agency customers worldwide, including more than 60 in EMEA.

"Expanding the tremendous success of Splunk in the UK and the rest of
Europe is a critical part of our growth strategy," says Godfrey Sullivan,
President and CEO, Splunk. "The combination of Brian's experience, the Splunk
brand and our leading IT Search technology will continue to accelerate our
business throughout the region."

As Vice President Sales, EMEA, Haynes is responsible for further
accelerating Splunk's growth in the European market. Haynes joins Splunk
having held senior management positions at EMC/Legato and CA/Wily. At Legato
Sytems, which was acquired by EMC in 2003, he held the role of VP Northern
EMEA. During his time there, Haynes was part of an EMEA start-up team that
took Legato Systems EMEA from virtually zero annual revenue to circa pounds
sterling 70 million. He started his managerial career at Logitek, one of the
UK's largest publicly quoted distribution companies at the time.

Commenting on his appointment, Haynes responded, "Splunk has experienced
exceptional growth in the US and the talented team that we're building in
EMEA will seek to replicate this success on this side of the pond. In all my
years of working in IT, I've never encountered a product as easy to deploy or
one that delivers such immediate value."

About Splunk

Splunk is the IT Search company innovating large-scale, high-speed
indexing for IT infrastructures. The company's freely downloadable software
indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any
application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations,
messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics: if a machine can generate
it -- Splunk can index it. It's easy to download, install and use, and is
very powerful. More than 750 enterprises, government organizations, and
service providers and more than 250,000 users are achieving higher
availability, investigating security incidents in record time, and meeting
compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Over 50 OEM, System
Integrator, Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners have
fuelled their offerings with IT Search. Partners such as BT, Cisco, Radware
and Trigeo are driving new business with innovative products powered by
Splunk. Download your own free copy today at http://www.splunk.com.

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