RightScale announced that it has integrated Splunk IT Search technology with the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. RightScale also announced that it is a founding member of the new Splunk Powered Associate partner program. With Splunk's powerful, high-speed IT Search technology integrated directly into RightScale's popular platform, users can aggregate and analyze IT data to improve operations, thwart security issues, comply with regulatory requirements and mine for business analytics.

"At RightScale, we are committed to delivering the scalable, on-demand power of cloud computing, while letting customers maintain the control and visibility required for serious business applications," said Michael Crandell, RightScale CEO. "Many of our customers have successfully used Splunk in the past to gain better visibility into their disparate IT data, and as one of the first members of the Splunk Powered Associate partner program, we are pleased to be able to offer this important technology on the RightScale platform for cloud IT deployments."

Cloud deployments are dynamic by design. Servers are added and decommissioned, IP addresses are assigned in real time, and entire deployments are taken off the cloud and then re-started at a later date. Traditional, static approaches to managing IT data simply don't work in the cloud. Splunk makes it possible to aggregate, search and navigate IT data from any application, server or device in the cloud in real time.

Customers can start using Splunk IT Search on the RightScale Cloud Management Platform, reportedly in minutes. RightScale users simply add a single RightScript to all the servers they want to analyze and then launch a Splunk receiver using a pre-defined RightScale ServerTemplate. Once deployed, users can take advantage of Splunk's search, alerting, reporting and analytics through the RightScale Management Dashboard.