4-19-12-Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK) has officially delivered one of the best IPOs of 2012.Shares of the machine data analysis software vendor are currently trading at $32.14, up 89% from an issue price of $17, which was adjusted higher multiple times.The San Francisco-based company raised $229.5 million in its IPO, selling 13.5 million shares at $17 apiece, it said in a statement yesterday.Splunk is the first of what has been dubbed the big data firms to go public, offering software that allows businesses to monitor and analyze data in an effort to improve service, cut operations costs and reduce security risks.
