SYSTEX has announced that it has launched SBOX, the world’s first appliance specifically designed and built for the Splunk Enterprise platform.

"The global big data market size would grow to as high as $23.8 billion dollars in 2016, according to IDC, and Splunk is clearly the No.1 market leader in the big data space. It is a great honor to be the first partner introducing an appliance designed for Splunk," said Frank Lin, CEO, SYSTEX Corporation.

"We understand the value of machine data and how to monetise data since partnering with Splunk in the very beginning. We believe SBOX is the spear head to SYSTEX’s international presence in the global big data market which is also in align with our ‘Go Global’ strategy of 2013."

Godfrey Sullivan, Chairman and CEO of Splunk Inc, said:

"SYSTEX has always been a great partner of Splunk. We have worked together for many years from jointly developing the Asia Pacific market, establishing the Splunk Solution Lab, and offering Splunk-certified training in the local market. We are excited to see SYSTEX’s commitment to the Splunk ecosystem by offering SBOX appliance. We are confident the combination of Splunk and SBOX will deliver great value added to our customers."

SYSTEX has acquired more than 400 Splunk customers since 2008 and has been involved in hundreds of Splunk use cases. They say that the design of SBOX appliance is not only optimised for the hardware performance for Splunk deployment but also for various kinds of Splunk day-to-day operations and management requirements.

The corporation said in a press release that SBOX appliance combines storage and computing resources for Splunk into a ‘single, integrated system, eliminating the need for an external storage network, such as a SAN or NAS’.

"SBOX appliance is big data ready. It is preloaded with lightweight OS and Splunk software and is ready for deployment out of the box. Users can quickly deploy and scale out by adding more appliances. The Splunk Powered SBOX supports all Splunk features and capabilities such as search head, indexer and forwarders. It is benchmarked and tested by Splunk using Splunk’s standard benchmarking methodology and toolkits and also passed stringent vulnerability tests," said Johnny Lin, Assistant Vice President of Splunk Lab, SYSTEX Corporation.