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Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by mikeshi42 »

avrionov wrote: post #195

I wonder if this segment is ready for disruption. Splunk is very expensive, ElasticSearch is still lacking many of the features of Splunk and when hosted on AWS is very expensive. SumoLogic was acquired by private equity, which means that it won't get cheaper. DataDog is also very expensive. Solution like SnowFlake for logs / telemetry where compute and storage are separated might be the future.

We're[1] building the OSS equivalent when it comes to the observability side of Splunk/DD, on Clickhouse naturally of course but believe in the same end goal of lowering cost via separation of compute and storage.

[1] https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx

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Post by EricE »

mikecoles wrote: post #278
pbreit wrote: post #275

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Is Splunk printing money like DataDog is? Any lower priced alternatives? Or self-hosted?

Graylog. It's amazing. Elastic also has an offering.

Graylog is amazing - and if you have resources to burn Security Onion takes it to the next level ;)

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by [deleted] »

fragmede wrote: post #323
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…

What's interesting is the substance of the complaints of those products. Most of the comments are complaining that Splunk is expensive, but no comments I've seen are complaining that it doesn't work or do as advertised. Same for Oracle DB. It's ungodly expensive, and there are (many) other options out there, but you don't really see complaints that it's not able to perform (after an expensive consultant has had a go…

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Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by biggerstep »

marcus0x62 wrote: post #222
TylerE wrote: post #221

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I was thinking way earlier than that. My grandparents had a Scientific Atlanta box connected to their giant piece-of-furtniture Hughs and Mathis TV. This was late 80s, early 90s, long before digital TV, or cable having more than 30 or 40 channels.

I believe they made equipment related to cable/satellite TV as far back as the 70s.

Yep. I worked at SA from the mid-90's through the mid '10's. They left the satellite business and focused (mostly) on cable systems. Was a lot of fun as digital settops rolled out, then DVR, then HDTV. As others have noted, the Cisco acquisition in 2006 did not, uh, work out too well. I believe Cisco had visions of video control "in the network", but that was never going to work for extant cable systems, and we couldn't get an IPTV solution going for lots of reasons. Loved my time at SA but it was oil and water with Cisco.

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Post by ejcx »

cduzz wrote: post #180
dx034 wrote: post #79

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Graylog looks like a good competitor. Certainly won't scale as well, but I've had good experience with it.

The thing that will totally replace splunk (and elastic and snowflake and likely several other whole ecosystems) is some random thing pouring data into clickhouse. I am nervous about how clickhouse is going to monetize, whenever they decide to turn on the revenue spigot.

I hate to shill in this thread, but that's exactly what we built at runreveal, so I completely agree! We saw the power of clickhouse when we were at segment and cloudflare, so built a company around it.

And since clickhouse is open source, we hope that people will stop giving their security data to vendors who then charge you rent for it. I think the future is writing this data to clickhouse, but also our customer's clickhouses

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by catchnear4321 »

sonofhans wrote: post #317
pgeorgi wrote: post #308

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Oracle? Cisco? Do something for somebody else for free? Are you mad? They'll license the fire, and calculate the fees based on volume of air heated.

… and then sue passers-by for pirating their pre-warmed air.

come now, you really think cisco would do that?

fail to monetize the light?

Re: Cisco Acquires Splunk

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Post by hintymad »

Great news for companies like ClickHouse, Trino, Elasticsearch, StarRocks, Imply, and etc. If Splunk can make it 28B, some of those companies should make it too, and most likely more by eating Splunk's market.
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