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Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by fiddlerwoaroof »

ShrigmaMale wrote: post #143
sanderjd wrote: post #115

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This is not actually dissonant! HN is mostly a place where technologists gather, not corporate heads of IT or other business people. This is especially true of the subset of users who actively participate rather than only reading. And it is not unusual in the least for an enterprise product to be wildly profitable but not admired by technologists. Indeed, it's the default; Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, etc. What is interes…

stripe, cloudflare (ish), github

I wouldn’t put GitHub in the list: lots of people are annoyed that they use F/OSS code to train copilot.

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by bugsense »

SteveNuts wrote: post #225
bastardoperator wrote: post #209

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That's what I was wondering about when it comes to this acquisition. Can Cisco make Splunk even more expensive? I have faith they can, I know for many folks, Splunk tops the leaderboards when it comes to spend.

I'm sure they'll bundle it or even integrate it with AppDynamics

Most likely they will let AppD die.

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by bugsense »

sbuk wrote: post #69
bugsense wrote: post #45

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So they will compete against AppDynamics for the same customers... Fun times.

AppDynamics isn't SIEM. If anything, this looks like an opportunity to upsell to AppDynamics customers.

AppD offers some SIEM. Splunk does much more than SIEM. Splunk Observability Cloud has nothing to do with Splunk Enterprise, it's a fully fledged AppD competitor.

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by dpkirchner »

bcrosby95 wrote: post #217
bastardoperator wrote: post #209

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That's what I was wondering about when it comes to this acquisition. Can Cisco make Splunk even more expensive? I have faith they can, I know for many folks, Splunk tops the leaderboards when it comes to spend.

Cisco will not be out competed in the expensive tech industry, so they had to buy them.

Imagine a merger of Cisco and Oracle...

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by physicles »

ak217 wrote: post #136

I haven't used Splunk in a number of years due to its cost. Splunk seems like a good pairing for Cisco - it's complementary to its other offerings to less price sensitive orgs, like Meraki. I've used several Splunk competitors (Sumo Logic, Datadog, etc.) that all have various strengths but suffer from a lesser version of Splunk's problem (once you're locked in and up for renewal, watch out). I also tried some ELK-bas…

We’ve got some logs in CloudWatch, but I barely use it because the query interface is unfathomably slow (in terms of query throughput). Do you use the web interface to query, or some other way?

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by bastard_op »

That's really a shame, Cisco buying anyone is often a death knell for the product. Look at their acquisition of security companies like Protego, Stealthwatch, ThousandEyes, and others that languish there, bled into watered down features for other dubious Cisco products and disappear into the ocean. Customers then abandon the products to again escape Cisco for other non-stagnant and overpriced products.

Already a customer/friend at a $6B retail customer of mine sent me the link first thing as a Splunk owner there. Just last week I asked if they'd looked at Datadog much yet, and said they'd rip Splunk from their cold dead hands. The follow up to the link for buyout news as that they were going to start looking at Datadog now. Splunk was already expensive, but not Cisco expensive.

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by ihaveajob »

MaintenanceMode wrote: post #147
petetnt wrote: post #33

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It's apparently cheaper to buy Splunk than to a buy Splunk license.

You may be joking but this is why we thought Cisco bought Webex back in the day too.

I was at Intel when they bought McAfee, whose HQ was essentially across the street. The running joke was similar.
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