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Cisco Acquires Splunk

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77 pointskaycebasques26 comments

Cisco Acquires Splunk, 5 months ago (923 points, 502 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37596497

If an admin passes along, it would be worthwhile to change the title to "Cisco closes acquisition of Splunk".

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I loved splunk when I worked somewhere a VC was paying the bill.

For my own project I could never really understand which of their various offerings was the one I needed, let alone could afford.

That said, watching someone really good with splunk use it is like music. It’s beautiful.

I'm sure this will have no effect on the price of this famously expensive product

It may get more expensive in the future. ;)

I'm not sure even Cisco is up to the challenge of making Splunk more expensive

I'm sure they can make becoming a Cisco Certified Splunk Architect more expensive, though.

this is a very fair point. I forgot they could make an entire academy around new certs.

now it will be expensive, and require you take a course to learn how to correctly buy a licence.

Cribl, created by former splunk guys is undercutting them. Elastic's eql is finally close to comparable to SPL3 and then you have graylog improving (also by former splunk guys). So it is indeed a good time to sell.

Their stock is inflated because for the past 10+ yrs they were so good, it was hard to even compare them with anyone else. People who think kibana, solr (or any lucene based stack) was comparable have no idea how powerful splunk is. But they're just not coming up with competitive features anymore or adapting better pricing models. Their execs can't wrap their heads around having real competitiin and I don't think that'll change with Cisco.

Cribl helps you reduce the data you ingest into splunk or even avoid splunk entirely. Really nice support for federated search as well (why isn't splunk doing this??).

Wasn't this announced [1] several months ago? Was there concern that the transaction wouldn't go through because of antitrust or other issues, such that this new announcement of the closing would be newsworthy?

1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-21/cisco-to-...

It's likely newsworthy for Splunk customers/ partners. Though I'd expect a bit of a delay before customer-facing changes start rolling out.

From the linked page:

"Press release: Cisco closes acquisition of Splunk

On March 18, 2024, Cisco completed the acquisition of Splunk. Get more information in the official press release."

Sounds like the deal has in fact closed.

lots of snide comments about how expensive splunk is, can anyone provide illustrative numbers vs alternatives, for the uninitiated?

Splunk was obscenely expensive when we got a quote a number of years ago. I was expecting very high but if I recall correctly, it was an order of magnitude greater than that.

Unfortunately, Graylog seems to be taking their post-OSS playbook from Splunk as well.

Also interested in non-insane competition.

Take a number that you would describe as "holy fucking shit". Add a 0 to that.

possibly more 0s

You can buy a splunk license, or you can hire an engineer dedicated to administrating opensearch, but you're paying either way.

For a long time, $1000/GB at ingest time per day was their thing but they've since gotten more flexible but their pricing is still in the millions for terabytes while the competition charges the same for petabytes.

My favorite joke about this acquisition: Cisco bought Splunk because it was cheaper than their license renewal

Where's the joke? I don't see a joke.

The joke here is that splunks services are costly.

(You replied to a meta-joke.)

Well, you're goin' 1-for-2 here.

I see ha! Thanks

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