Splunk plunks seductive AaaS on Amazon cloud

Splunk has launched a free analytics-as-a-service product based on the Amazon Web Services cloud. The company, whose name may or may not have been generated by a desperate Scrabble player, announced on Tuesday that its paid-for Splunk Enterprise product is now available as a service based on the AWS cloud. Splunk's technology …

[Chris Phillips]

As far as I know the name comes from Spellunking. One of the founders is / was hooked on trying to kill himself in a flooded underground cavern. Probably nonsense though!

[The Preston Park Panther]

The ungrateful masses will call it 'Spunk Storm'.