SplunkLive Denver – A Rocky Mountain High

On October 13, 2011, the Splunklive caravan headed to the Rockies with over 125 people in attendance at Splunklive Denver – doubling the number from last year.  The event opened with a Splunk introduction from Stephen Sorkin, VP of Engineering at Splunk, and one the chief architects of the product.  The subsequent sessions were a “customer fest” with five presentations from customers that included CenturyLink, Staples, Ping Identity and two presentations from Cricket Communications – it set a new record for customer presentations at a Splunklive!

The customer presentation bonanza kicked off with CenturyLink, the third largest telecommunications company in the US.  CenturyLink discussed how their initial view of Splunk as a tactical solution to monitor platform rapidly evolved to…

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Recognizing Splunk Revolution and Community Awards Winners

One of the most exciting aspects of working at Splunk is seeing the innovative ways in which our customers are using Splunk – whether it is for application management, infrastructure management, security, web analytics or business analytics.

At this year’s .Conf 2011, Splunk’s annual user conference, Godfrey Sullivan, CEO of Splunk and Steve Sommer, CMO of Splunk took the opportunity to recognize some of our customers with the Splunk Community and the Splunk Revolution Awards.

Community Awards

Splunk Community awards recognized contributors who have been instrumental in helping us build a vibrant and active community.  Since their launch last year, Splunk Answers and Splunkbase have become hugely successful because of the contributions from our customers, developers,…

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