Splunk

Splunk to shed 7% of its staff

Corporate

Splunk to shed 7% of its staff

Redundancies will primarily hit employees in the Americas

clock 02 November 2023 • 2 min read
Cisco to buy Splunk for $28bn

Mergers and Acquisitions

Cisco to buy Splunk for $28bn

Deal is expected to close Q3 2024

clock 22 September 2023 • 1 min read
Activist investor Starboard targets Salesforce, Splunk

Mergers and Acquisitions

Activist investor Starboard targets Salesforce, Splunk

Starboard Value previously made waves with Symantec and Mellanox bids

clock 19 October 2022 • 3 min read

Cloud and Infrastructure

Sporting Group CTO on selecting Sumo Logic over Splunk, and Google over AWS

Peter Wallis explains how the company moved from Splunk to Sumo Logic because of pricing, and how Kubernetes made Google the clear cloud choice

clock 10 December 2019 • 4 min read

Software

Splunk warning over Y2K-style bug set to hit all versions on 1st January 2020

Splunk users urged to patch immediately

clock 28 November 2019 • 2 min read

Mergers and Acquisitions

Splunk acquires monitoring and analytics firm SignalFx for $1.05 billion

Splunk claims SignalFX acquisition will enable it to offer application performance management from cloud-based apps to on-premise applications

clock 22 August 2019 • 2 min read

DevOps

Splunk to buy DevOps incident management firm VictorOps for $120m

Move fits with Splunk's strategy of broadening its enterprise use cases

clock 11 June 2018 • 2 min read

Cloud and Infrastructure

Splunk fires a shot across the bows of 'Ludicrous Larry'

Doug Merritt says there is "no such thing as a wall-to-wall Oracle customer"

clock 04 October 2017 • 2 min read

DevOps

DevOps: the need for speed and the tools of choice

A summary of Computing's research into DevOps priorities and tools

clock 24 March 2017 • 8 min read

Public Sector

MoD CDIO Mike Stone to leave at the end of March 2017

Stone's departure follows rumours of rifts at the top

clock 20 October 2016 • 2 min read