"Wallah" in lieu of "Voila".. is it just me? #language

I keep reading the word "wallah" in a context that suggests that the English word (procured from the French) "voila" was actually meant. As in "Look there!" Is this a simple mistake, where people have heard a word and taken a best guess at the spelling? Or is it a deliberate attempt to rid the English language of a French invader? Perhaps they are being funny, but it comes across as simply sad. Maybe it's me.

Here's an example: All I had to do was connect an Ethernet cable to my office network, turn it on, and wallah we were into the land of smart storage management.

Splunk: A play on words and a minor correction

Forbes mag says that Splunk.com's moniker is a play on "spelunking," a term coined by IT specialists to describe sifting through mountains of machine data. Or so they say. In fact it's a word that means "caving", as in cave exploring. So to say it's a coinage is wrong or a stretch at best but it is an interesting new use for an existing form.

That trifle aside, it's an interesting company that uses indexing to assist trawling through log files for data mining purposes. They offer a free download which I haven't tried as yet but will. It's meant for IT shops and the like but anything that indexes alerts and log files can't help but assist in managing anything ummm, voluminous and ineffable. Like IT generally.