Splunk to Host First Worldwide Users' Conference
Inaugural Event in San Francisco to Support Learning and Collaboration Among Rapidly Growing Global Splunk User Community
SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced the first Splunk Worldwide Users' Conference, Splunk '10, taking place August 9-11, 2010 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. For the first time, Splunk users, partners and developers from around the globe will have the opportunity to learn and share real-world best practices and ideas for better managing, securing and auditing their IT environments. At this inaugural event, Splunk developers, trainers, product managers, professional services consultants and executives will be on hand to discuss the product roadmap, lead workshops and deliver keynote and panel presentations.
"This conference is an opportunity to bring together IT professionals including system administrators, application developers, security analysts, network engineers, architects and others, to discuss the challenging parts of their jobs and share how Splunk is helping them deliver value to their organizations," said Erik Swan, co-founder and chief technology officer, Splunk. "Splunk customers and users include many of the smartest, most forward-thinking people in IT. This conference will be more than just three days of sessions and training, it's a gathering of some of the most innovative IT professionals in the world, and a vehicle to strengthen collaboration within the Splunk community."
The 2010 Splunk Worldwide Users' Conference comes at a time of rapid company growth. In 2009, the Splunk customer base doubled to 1,600 licensed customers in 67 countries. The conference will include 40 sessions across five tracks, with Splunk customers and other experts providing deep drilldowns into topics such as FISMA Compliance, Splunk for VMware, Splunk for SaaS environments, Event Correlation, Advanced Search Language, Integrating Splunk with Active Directory, Monitoring Business Transactions and more.
The conference will emphasize sessions aimed at bringing the user community together in a collaborative environment to share best practices. The conference will also feature:
Birds of a Feather Sessions – Interact informally with peers from other companies who are facing similar IT challenges. | |
Town Hall Meetings – Join Splunk product mangers and help influence future Splunk solutions development and the product roadmap. | |
SplunkAnswers Lab - Offers a "hands on" lab where attendees can sit with Splunk experts to ask their most challenging questions and review their implementations. | |
Splunk Superhero Awards – Awards recognizing individuals that are doing the most interesting things with Splunk. | |
Splunk University – Optional pre-conference sessions provide in-depth knowledge and Splunk certifications through hands-on instruction (Additional fees apply). | |
What: Splunk '10, the first Splunk Worldwide Users' Conference
Where: The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA
When: August 9-11, 2010
Cost: Register before May 14, 2010 at the Early Bird rate of $695, after May 14 the price increases to $895.
For more information and registration, please visit: http://www.splunk.com/goto/conference
Call for Papers is open for Splunk '10. If you would like to lead a session at the conference, please submit your idea by April 14, 2010: http://www.splunk.com/goto/userconference_open_call
About Splunk
Splunk is the IT Search company changing the way organizations manage and secure their IT infrastructures. Only Splunk lets you search, alert, report and analyze data from all your applications, servers and network devices in real time to troubleshoot problems, investigate security incidents and report on compliance controls in minutes instead of hours or days. Over 1,600 enterprises, service providers and government organizations in 67 countries use Splunk to realize new levels of service quality, reduce IT operations costs and mitigate security risks in record time. The world's leading technology providers and over 50 system integrator, value-added reseller and managed service provider partners are driving new business and fueling their offerings with Splunk. Download your own free copy of Splunk today at www.splunk.com/download
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