Tag: Splunk

Tata joins Cohesity Data Security Alliance

Posted on September 28, 2023 by - News

Cohesity has announced that Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is joining the Cohesity Data Security Alliance ecosystem.

Cohesity and Data Security Alliance partners offer current and potential new customers a suite of data security and management solutions and services to help build a cybersecurity strategy and enhance cyber resilience.

This news builds upon Cohesity and TCS’ long-standing partnership and commitment to providing modern and automated data management solutions with end-to-end security.

Cisco buys Splunk

Posted on September 22, 2023 by - News

Cisco has snapped up unified security and observability platform developer Splunk for roughly $28 billion, claiming it will enable it to “drive the next generation of AI-enabled security and observability.”

The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2024, pending regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions, including acceptance by Splunk’s board.

The deal’s announcement comes roughly a year after Cisco reportedly put down a takeover offer for Splunk worth more than $20 billion.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said: “From threat detection and response to threat prediction and prevention, we will help make organisations of all sizes more secure and resilient.”

Splunk uses trusted partners to enter the hardware market

Posted on July 21, 2023 by - News

Security outfit Splunk has entered the hardware market using a select number of authorised partners to deliver its technology with high levels of customer support.

The cyber security and observability player has launched of its Splunk Edge Hub, which will enable users to stream more information to the vendor’s platform.

The introduction of the hardware will allow more monitoring, investigation of a customer’s network and response as users look for greater levels of protection.

Availability is limited to the US at this stage, but there are plans to roll out the offering to EMEA and APAC soon.

Steel takes over Splunk

Posted on March 4, 2022 by - Moving People, News

Proofpoint CEO Gary Steele is leaving security outfit to take over as Splunk’s new CEO.

Steele was the founding CEO of Proofpoint and has overseen the company’s growth from a startup to a publicly-traded security-as-a-service provider.

He will take over as permanent CEO on 11 April following Doug Merritt’s decision to step down in November last year, just five months after Splunk received a billion dollars of private equity funding from Silver Lake Investment.

“Splunk has built one of the most respected brands in tech and is at the forefront of security and observability. I’m honoured to join the company at such an important moment – for both Splunk and the industry. I’ve dedicated my career to helping companies around the world safeguard their data, systems and infrastructure, and know first-hand how critical Splunk’s products and solutions have become to customers as they navigate hybrid, multi-cloud environments with increasingly complex attacks and threat actors.”

Cisco wants Splunk

Posted on February 16, 2022 by - News

Networking giant Cisco is trying to buy the data analytics software company Splunk.

Cisco has made an offer worth more than $20 billion for the outfit recently although neither side is in active talks over a deal.

If it goes through the deal would mark Cisco’s biggest ever acquisition – smashing the $6.9 billion acquisition of Scientific Atlanta in 2005.

Splunk, which is currently searching for a new chief executive after Doug Merritt stepped down from the role in November, sells a platform that monitors and searches and visualises machine data.

The two companies already have a partnership, and Cisco has continued to put its efforts into moving towards software in recent years, with CEO Chuck Robbins praising partners in November for helping the company’s shift toward software and services.

 

Splunk snaps up cloudy Flowmill

Posted on November 26, 2020 by - News

Splunk has acquired cloud network observability specialist Flowmill saying that its skills are a “core” priority for its future growth.

Splunk CTO Tim Tully said: “Splunk will continue to deliver on its vision to offer the world’s most comprehensive Observability Suite. Observability technology is rapidly increasing in both sophistication and ability to help organizations revolutionise how they monitor their infrastructure and applications.”

Flowmill’s NPM solution provides real-time oversight into networks and the performance of distributed cloud applications.

Tully said what attracted Splunk to Flowmill is its “innovative approach” to cloud network performance monitoring.

Splunk swallows Phantom

Posted on March 2, 2018 by - News

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Woodridge, IL, USA — Great White Shark Opening Mouth — Image by © Denis Scott/Corbis

Big Data outfit Splunk has bought cybersecurity specialist Phantom as part of its move to become an “analytics-driven security company”.

Splunk wrote a £254 million cheque for  Phantom, which focuses on security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR).

Its founder and CEO Oliver Friedrichs will stay on and report to Haiyan Song, Splunk’s general manager of security markets.

Friedrichs said that he and Sourabh Satish founded Phantom to give Security Operations Center analysts the edge over their adversaries, a way to automatically and quickly resolve threats.

“Combining SOAR with the industry’s leading big-data platform is a revolutionary advance for security and IT teams and will further cut down the time it takes them to eliminate threats and keep the business running. We are thrilled to empower Splunk customers to solve these important challenges.”

Splunk’s CEO Doug Merritt said: “Phantom’s employees and technology significantly expand and strengthen Splunk’s vision for the security nerve centre and business revolution through IT. Splunk is committed to continue pushing the limits of technology to help our customers get the answers they need from their data.”

Splunk has been building up its channel profile and pushed its “partner-first” policy.

Internet of Things promises analytics boom

Posted on January 14, 2015 by - News

Internet of ThingsThe growth of devices with internet protocol (IP) capabilities will generate a boom in big data and analytics revenue.
That’s the prediction from ABI Research which said in a report that integrating, analysing and storing data from the internet of things (IoT) will be worth as much as $5.7 billion this year.
That figure will expand over the next five years and represent a third of all big data and analytics revenues, the research outfit predicts.
Analyst Aapo Markkanen said that trying to make sense of data from machines and sensors has its own challenges, including deep domain expertise in analysis and time series databases held in storage.
That is leading to the birth of many startups aiming to exploit a gap in the market.
Some existing vendors including Datawatch, Informatics, Software AG and Splunk are ready for the IoT world.