Arrow and Splunk have announced a distribution agreement that will see Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business distribute Splunk software.

Splunk‘s software lets users search, monitor and analyse all machine-generated IT and business data in real time.

Mark Taylor, vice president of enterprise servers, systems and software for Arrow, said: "As the leading platform for Operational Intelligence, Splunk is a powerful addition to our big data practice line."

"We’re looking forward to bringing our incremental value model to the Splunk partner ecosystem which enables Splunk and our solution providers to leverage our scale to capture this fast-growing and emerging channel opportunity."

Splunk’s products that will be available will be Splunk Enterprise, Hunk and Splunk App for Enterprise Security.

Emilio Umeoka, vice president of Asia Pacific and worldwide partners, Splunk, said: "With the growth of the Splunk business and reseller community, now is the right time to add distribution to the United States and Canadian business to better serve our resellers and customers."

"We are excited to have Arrow ECS distribute Splunk products and services to help accelerate the growth of our channel in the United States and Canada. This agreement opens the door to help even more organizations leverage machine data for deeper IT and business insights."

It is expected that the distribution agreement will expand into futher markets in the future.