Management search software community set to debut at at LinuxWorld

By Denise Dubie, NetworkWorld.com, 04/03/06

This week at the LinuxWorld Boston conference, more than 200 vendors are expected to exhibit and some plan to announce products -- among them a newcomer that will debut a troubleshooting tool and IT community.

Splunk executives intend to share details of the company's software that searches management data across systems. The start-up -- which had initially raised $5 million in venture capital funding and earlier this year brought in another $10 million -- will launch its Splunk Base at the show.

Company executives describe Splunk Base as a "global wiki of IT events enabling the worldwide community of IT professionals to access and share in-depth information about specific events recorded by any service, application or device."

As part of using Splunk Server, IT executives can also search for solutions to problems they encounter in this Splunk Base database of sorts. Splunk collects log files from multiple systems and makes it easier, the company says, for IT managers to troubleshoot and diagnose problems by being able to search data from all the systems. The company says its software has been downloaded by 35,000 systems administrators and some 3,500 have registered to take part in a beta test of Splunk Base.

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