Splunk announced the availability of its server virtualization management application, Splunk for Citrix XenServer Management which offers extended management capabilities for Citrix XenServer. In the coming months, Splunk will release applications for each of the server virtualization platforms, built on the company's IT Search platform.

Splunk brings IT Search, indexing, alert and reporting to the challenges of troubleshooting server virtualization. IT Search delivers a comprehensive view of 100 percent of IT data -- not only from the hypervisor and VM (virtual machine), but also from the server, guest OS, applications, and network. Splunk is the only approach that easily crosses tiers -- both inside and outside of the VM -- for a complete picture of the effect of server virtualization on the overall IT environment.

IT pros are excited about server virtualization, but know from the outset that things will break, causing performance and capacity issues when apps share the same physical host. And when they do break, IT needs to quickly troubleshoot and fix the problems. But existing tools -- which struggle to keep up in a pre-virtualized environment -- can't handle the more dynamic and transient nature of virtualization. With multiple VMs sharing a pool of server, storage and network resources, changes to any one layer or VM could potentially affect others -- and the applications they contain. Splunk's ability to index data across every tier of the infrastructure in real-time makes it the only solution to alleviate the challenge of running a dynamic environment on finite resources with optimal results.

"Splunk just gets it," said Simon Crosby, CTO, Virtualization & Management, Citrix Systems. "XenServer customers have been asking for a way to correlate hypervisor data and metrics with everything else going on in the IT stack, including guest VMs and apps. Splunk has the smarts to put all the relevant logs, metrics and events together in the most intuitive way so you can really understand what's happening all the way up the stack."

"Combining virtualization management metrics with the wealth of IT data Splunk already indexes helps companies realize the cost-savings they set out to achieve with an efficient and effective virtualized server environment," said Christina Noren, vice president, product management, Splunk. "Whether our customers are testing a new virtualization rollout or managing an existing infrastructure, Splunk puts the IT administrator back in control."

Splunk for Server Virtualization Management supports all management use cases throughout the virtualization lifecycle -- virtualization planning, workload optimization, performance monitoring, root cause analysis and log management. Whether customers are testing a new virtualization rollout or managing an existing infrastructure, Splunk Apps provide a holistic view across virtualization platform metrics from guest operating systems and applications.

Splunk will be exhibiting and presenting at the upcoming Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City, on June 23-24, 2008.

Conference Faculty - A Who's Who of Virtualization Technology Rock Stars!
International Virtualization Conference & Expo faculty alumni include such notable speakers as: Brian Stevens, CTO of Red Hat; Stephen Herrod, CTO of VMware; Vern Brownell, founder and CEO of Egenera; Simon Crosby, founder and CTO of Citrix XenSource; Hubert Yoshida, vice president and CTO of Hitachi Data Systems; Jeffrey Nick, CTO of EMC; David Greschler, director of Virtualization Strategy for Microsoft; Hal Stern, vice president and distinguished engineer for Sun Microsystems; Andrew Hillier, founder and CTO of CiRBA; Alex Vasilevsky, founder and CEO of Virtual Iron; Jack Zubarev, founder and COO of SWsoft; Stephen Pollack, founder and CEO of PlateSpin; Brett Adam, founder and CEO of rPath; Kevin Brown, founder and CEO of Kidaro; Bob Lozano, founder and CEO of Appistry; and Harry Ruda, founder and CEO of Desktone.

Sponsors and Exhibitors
SYS-CON's International Virtualization Conference & Expo events are sponsored by the world's leading virtualization technology providers, including:

• DataDirect (Diamond Sponsor)
• Intel (Platinum Sponsor)
• Red Hat (Platinum Sponsor)
• Green Hills Software (Platinum Sponsor)
• Fujitsu (Gold Sponsor)
• Novell / Platespin (Gold Sponsor)
• Ceedo (Gold Sponsor)
• Software AG (Gold Sponsor)
• 3PAR (Silver Sponsor)
• APC (Silver Sponsor)
• Certeon (Silver Sponsor)
• Web Age Solutions (Silver Sponsor)
• WSO2 (Silver Sponsor)
• Stoneware (Silver Sponsor)
• AppStream (Expo Sponsor)
• Astaro (Expo Sponsor)
• Composite Software (Expo Sponsor)
• Grid Dynamics (Expo Sponsor)
• InstallFree (Expo Sponsor)
• Nastel (Expo Sponsor)
• Managed Methods (Expo Sponsor)
• Farata Systems (Expo Sponsor)
• Splunk (Expo Sponsor)
• Xsigo Systems (ExpoSponsor)
• DataSynapse (Expo Sponsor)
• Mellanox Technologies (Expo Sponsor)
• Marathon Technologies (Expo Sponsor)
• MQ Software (Expo Sponsor)
• RingCube (Expo Sponsor)
• Reflex Security (Expo Sponsor)
• Skytap (Expo Sponsor)
  

Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities Offered on a First-Come First-Served Basis
To inquire about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities please contact Carmen Gonzalez at 201-802-3021 or by email at events(at)sys-con.com. Currently, a limited number of sponsorship and exhibition packages with multiple sponsorship discounts are available for the following international events:

3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 - East
June 23-24, 2008, New York City (www.VirtualizationConference.com)

4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 - West
November 20-21, 2008, San Jose, CA (www.VirtualizationConference.com)