Cloud computing is one of those topics that will have even more attention in 2009, and with good reason. With a more diverse distribution of industries and organizations considering "the cloud", several obvious questions are raised. For cloud hosting companies and entities, the concerns of overall cloud availability and sustainability are usually at the forefront.
In a recent press release, Splunk, the IT Search Company, announced that several major next-generation and grid computing-focused companies are using Splunk's IT search offerings to further strengthen and solidify their offerings. This press release specifically mentions that Coghead, Elastra, GoGrid, Mashery, and RightScale are widely using Splunk's technologies.
"Splunk IT Search delivers critical infrastructure management and reporting, allowing end users and cloud providers to prosper through managing available resources and reliably delivering on their service level agreements."
"Information provided by the Splunk IT Search Platform is vital for managing mission critical applications on the cloud," said Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and Founder, RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management. "By integrating Splunk's offering with our cloud management platform, we are able to provide our customers with the information they need to manage standard operational jobs like troubleshooting, enhancing security, and compliance log management as well as valuable insights into their users' interaction and relevant business trends."
Visibility and proactive intelligence is key to providing stability in a cloud computing environment. Technologies like Splunk adapt extremely well to a cloud environment, where a conglomeration of performance, alerting, syslog, and event information is generated every second. In order to rapidly scale, a cloud environment needs to well monitored, and interrelated events must be analyzed and corrected immediately to ensure cloud stability.
"Traditional IT management and monitoring tools have a hard enough time keeping up with yesterday's infrastructures," said Erik Swan, chief technology officer and co-founder, Splunk. "That's why the leading cloud providers are turning to Splunk IT Search to deliver the visibility their customers need into critical security, compliance and operational data. The ability to turn logs, metrics, configurations, messages, and alerts from across any IT infrastructure, including the cloud, into actionable information has made Splunk a necessary ingredient for any cloud provider."
For more information, see the Splunk Press Release quoted in this article.
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