Splunk, Inc. provides software solutions that provide real-time operational intelligence. It offers Splunk, an engine that collects, indexes, and harnesses machine data generated by physical, virtual or in the cloud IT infrastructure; and Splunk Storm, a cloud version of Splunk to analyze cloud based applications. The company also provides services, such as implementation, system health optimization and best practices review, deployment workshop, upgrade, and augmentation for administration and development. In addition, its solutions include operational intelligence, application management, IT operations management, security and compliance, business analytics, cloud, and Microsoft. The company serves cloud and online services, education, energy and utilities, financial services and insurance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail, technology, telecommunications, and travel and leisure industries. Splunk, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California.