Agreement Includes Extensive Asian Distribution Coverage, Establishment of Splunk Lab at Systex, Local Support and Education SAN FRANCISCO and TAIPEI, Taiwan, Oct. 5
SAN FRANCISCO and TAIPEI, Taiwan, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Splunk, the IT
Search company, and Systex < TSE:6214 >, a Taiwan-based leading regional IT
service provider, today announced a strategic pan-Asia partnership. The
agreement covers master distributor rights across 8 Asian countries, the
establishment of Splunk Lab in Systex with over 200 engineering and technical
resources, development of applications based on Splunk, and dedicated sales,
marketing and support people throughout the region focused on building
Splunk's Asian business.
This agreement provides Splunk with extensive market coverage -- Systex
has nearly 50 offices in 8 countries including Taiwan, China, Hong Kong,
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Systex, in partnership
with Splunk, is establishing a world-class Splunk lab in Taiwan to collaborate
closely with Splunk's headquarters team to localize Splunk products and
develop a broad set of applications based on Splunk's IT search platform. The
lab will leverage Systex' extensive domain expertise in industries such as
financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, education
and government as well as Systex competencies in IT operations, security, and
business intelligence. The Taiwan-based Splunk Lab will also be certified to
provide localized training and Tier 1 & Tier 2 technical support to Splunk
customers and partners.
"Splunk has created a new product category -- IT Search -- that every data
center should be using, and that is why we are making such a strategic
investment of our resources into the Systex-Splunk partnership," said Hilo
Chen, CEO & President of Systex. "There is great synergy and business
opportunity in this strategic partnership. Splunk's IT search technology
highly complements Systex's core competence. We will mobilize our sales,
marketing and support forces in the region to make this partnership
successful," said Frank Lin, COO of Systex.
Godfrey R. Sullivan, CEO of Splunk, also echoed the strategic nature of
the relationship, "It's rare to find a partner with such impressive
capabilities and deep expertise working with customers to manage complex IT
infrastructures." Added Robert Lau, Vice President of Asia Pacific, "Demand
for Splunk in Asia is strong and we are extremely excited to have found a
partner that is so well aligned with Splunk and able to dramatically
accelerate our penetration of the Asian market."
Systex is a Taiwan-based leading regional IT service provider with over
2,900 employees and 10,000 customers. Systex is developing international
markets as it aims to become one of the top 5 IT service providers in Asia
Pacific in 3 years. Systex possesses extensive domain knowledge of various
vertical industries, which helps to deliver innovative applications of IT
strategies, thereby giving customers a competitive edge with world-class
project management capabilities and rich IT infrastructure implementation
expertise. Systex provides 13 solution categories, including storage
management, IT system administration, IT security, database and business
intelligence, portal and collaboration, application server, consulting
services, outsourcing, training, telecom and digital media. Systex is also a
value added distributor and reseller for world-class solutions including
AirDefense, BMC Software, CA, Check Point, Cisco, EMC, HP Software, IBM,
McAfee, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, Sun, Symantec, Websense, and others.
About Splunk
Splunk is the IT Search company innovating large-scale, high-speed
indexing for IT infrastructures. The company's freely downloadable software
indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any
application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations,
messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics: if a machine can generate
it -- Splunk can index it. It's easy to download, install and use, and is very
powerful. More than 750 enterprises, government organizations, and service
providers and more than 250,000 users are achieving higher availability,
investigating security incidents in record time, and meeting compliance
requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Over 50 OEM, System Integrator, Value
Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners have fuelled their
offerings with IT Search. Partners such as BT, Cisco, Radware and Trigeo are
driving new business with innovative products powered by Splunk. Download your
own free copy today at http://www.splunk.com/download.
About Systex
Systex is a Taiwan-based leading regional IT service provider with
presence of 50 offices in 8 Asian countries including Taiwan, China, Hong
Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. With net worth of
US$483 million, cash reserve of US$210 million and consolidate revenue of over
US$400 million in 2007, Systex is moving toward the goal of being "a leading
regional IT services provider of great efficiency in the Asia-Pacific region."
Systex is currently CMMI Level 3 certified and is moving toward the CMMI Level
5 accreditation. Systex has nearly 60 certified PMP(R)'s and CAPM(R)'s.
Additionally, Systex also takes pride in its team of 50 ITIL(R) certified
professionals, more than 300 IT engineers with multiple specialized
qualifications and a total of 119 types of international
specialization/management certifications as well as being ISO9001, ISO27001
and BS25999 certified, thereby enabling it in world-class cutting-edge IT R&D,
undertaking big international projects and serving global partners and
customers. For more information about Systex, please visit
http://www.systexgroup.com
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