Splunk, Systex sign strategic pan-Asia partnership
ConvergenceAsia staff
07/10/2008

Splunk, an IT Search company, and Systex, a Taiwan-based IT service provider, have 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.

Said Robert Lau, Vice President of Asia Pacific at Splunk, "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, in partnership with Splunk, is establishing a world-class Splunk lab in Taiwan to collaborate closely with Splunk's headquarters team to localise 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 localised 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 centre 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.

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