splunk inc. (nasdaq: splk) was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. machine data is one of the fastest growing and most valuable parts of big data -- generated by every component of it infrastructures, applications, mobile devices, website clickstreams, social data, sensors and more. splunk is the leading software platform for machine data that enables customers to gain real-time operational intelligence. our company's mission is to address the challenges and opportunities of managing massive streams of machine-generated big data. more than three quarters of the fortune 100 and thousands of enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers use splunk software to harness the power of their machine data for application management, it operations, security, web intelligence, customer and business analytics and more. splunk helps customers solve problems in ways they could never dream before. with splunk