'Worlds are being disrupted' by our data-driven approach: Splunk CEO

Sticking to tradition in retail — specifically, choosing what to sell without having the data to back up the decision — could be what's killing struggling chains. That's at least if you ask @Doug Merritt, the president and CEO of software analytics play @Splunk, who told @CNBC on Monday that picking items to sell without consulting customer data could land retailers in jeopardy. "If you're doing it that way, it's going to be harder and harder to be successful," Merritt told "Mad Money" host @JimCramer. "That is not the way that @Amazon's doing it. That's not the way that @Mercadolibre's doing it. That's not the way @Alibaba's doing it."  "Worlds are being disrupted because people are taking a data-driven approach right now to understanding product velocity [and] customer needs," Merritt continued. Splunk is partnered with Amazon's cloud arm, Amazon Web Services, and boasts clients such as Coca-Cola, Nordstrom, Groupon and the state of Alaska. The San Francisco-based company helps clients gather real-time data related to their businesses to smooth operations, heighten security and gain eye-opening insights into their customers. For retailers in particular, Merritt's company hones in on ultra-specific data points that paint a picture of broader customer patterns, wants and needs. "There are signals — WiFi hotspots, mobile devices, sensors on the stores — that, if you know how to trap, you can do a much better job of understanding what your customers need and listening to that customer so you can be successful," the CEO said. These days, Splunk is moving towards a more "prescriptive" model, telling customers not only that they need to harness their data to survive, but also explaining which data points are most useful and how to use them, Merritt told Cramer. The move is part of Splunk's push to create faster "time to value" for their customers, which comes in handy for multinational companies that need to comply with foreign regulations, the CEO said.
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Cisco Has A Pile Of Cash To Spend, But Is Rival Arista Too Big To Buy?

@CiscoSystems ( #CSCO) could aim for a big acquisition in the wake of its plans to bring back some $67 billion in overseas cash, but will it have enough to truly shake up the networking sector?    With Cisco's stock also trading at a 17-year high, the computer networking giant could use a combination of equity and cash to finance a big deal. Cisco stock jumped 4.7% to close at 44.08 on the stock market today after reporting fiscal second-quarter earnings and revenue that topped expectations on Wednesday. Archrival @AristaNetworks ( #ANET) has a market valuation of $22 billion. That high market cap, coupled with a deal premium and the fact @Cisco has earmarked $25 billion for share repurchases, could put @Arista out of reach, analysts say. Arista, which reports fourth-quarter earnings late Thursday, has been grabbing share in the data center switching market from Cisco. Other names that some analysts throw out as acquisition targets include software firms @ServiceNow (NOW), @Splunk (SPLK) and privately-held Slack; data center firms @Nutanix (NTNX) and @Pure Storage (PSTG);  as well as cyber-security technology providers like @Palo Alto Networks (PANW)

https://www.investors.com/news/technology/cisco-has-a-pile-of-cash-to-spend-but-is-rival-arista-too-big-to-buy/

Splunk: Making A Move Above $100

#SPLK is breaking out higher from a multi-year base pattern. Its operations are expanding, leading to top- and bottom-line growth. Using long-dated, OTM call options could be the best way to play this move. @Splunk (SPLK) is breaking out of a multi-year consolidation pattern on strong fundamental support. Its share price has trended sideways for much of the last few years but is finally beginning to break out higher. Its fundamental operations are improving, winning new business while growing both its top- and bottom-line. An interesting way to play the long side of SPLK is through buying long-dated, out-of-the-money call options. Price Action SPLK's share price is emerging from a large base pattern and could run significantly higher in coming years on strong fundamental growth. Below is a chart of both its daily and monthly time frames. Both its short- and long-term price action looks very strong with positive investor momentum. After a number of analyst upgrades the past few months, SPLK has jumped nearly 25%. On its daily chart, the stock looks to be trending higher at a steady trajectory. On its monthly chart, SPLK is emerging from a multi-year base pattern consolidating between $40 and $75. Should the stock continue higher and break out of its current consolidation on solid fundamental backing, its share price could run past $100 in coming years based on its current volatility profile. SPLK is a quickly expanding growth company that is beginning to hit its stride, and for this reason, investor sentiment should persist, leading its share price higher.  Source: Trading View Fundamental Narrative SPLK has had a lot of success generating returns for shareholders in recent quarters as it both improves overall operations as well as wins new projects. In its most recent quarter, SPLK generated revenues totaling $329 million, a 34% increase over Q3 of last year, according to management. Total billings came in at $382 million, up 38% over last year. Cloud revenues totaled $24.4 million, and overall software revenues, which include license and cloud revenue, grew 34% year-over-year. Growth in all regions drove both its performance and share price higher following the release of its results. Management has continuously stated that the key to long-term growth is customer success remaining its top priority and adoption of its platform. Over the quarter, SPLK added more than 450 new customers, recording 581 orders over $100,000. Management also had this to say about new business: "Consistent with adoption overall, in Q3, the ASP for the 581 orders greater than $100,000, which includes two of the largest cloud transactions we've ever recorded, was the highest in our history, reflecting continued value delivery from our platform. We'll update you on the full year ASPs once the year is complete, but I expect we'll be on track to our fiscal 2020 annual ASP target."  Growing cloud orders is a positive sign for this business as it continues to expand its higher margin operations. The company also had steady international success recently. Over the last quarter, international operations represented 24% of total revenues, consistent with previous levels and comparable on a year-over-year basis. An interesting aspect of the company's earnings calls are the anecdotal discussions of projects won over previous quarters. Projects won are becoming more complex and highlighting SPLK's future potential as well as growth outlook into new industries. During the quarter, SPLK won business from the Smithsonian Institution, who upgraded its use of its services to improve threat detection and mitigation across its world-famous museums and research centers. In an unrelated industry, Daimler (OTCPK:DMLRY), the German automotive group, signed a multi-terabyte deal to replace its legacy SIEM with Enterprise and ES. The group will use SPLK as its nerve center for security, providing insights across the entire organization. Collectively, SPLK continues to use its services across a number of fields, signaling that major growth potential in coming years. Below is a chart of SPLK's revenue and earnings per share [EPS] over the last few years. What is seen on the chart is that revenue has expanded very quickly, roughly tenfold from 2012 to present day. As with many growth companies, profits are elusive at first. EPS declines look to have bottomed though over the last year and are headed higher. The combination of both revenue and EPS growth should fuel its share price higher in coming years.  The Trade A way to play long-term growth in SPLK is by using longer-dated out-of-the-money call options. Specifically, I am looking at the January 2019 strike of 125 call option, trading at $1.70 currently. This allows me to speculate on long-term growth in the company as it breaks out of a multi-year base pattern with strong fundamental support. If the price doesn't look to be approaching the $125 level with roughly 30-60 days left until expiration, the position can be sold to salvage its time premium. If the call is in the money, however, it is fine to simply let it run into expiration and either cash settle in the end, or take delivery of the stock. Remember that when trading options, it is possible to lose full principle, so weight the position accordingly.  Source: Think or Swim Conclusion SPLK is trending higher on strong fundamental support. Its share price is breaking out of a multi-year consolidation pattern. Fundamentally, the company is expanding its operations, winning new business, as well as growing its top- and bottom-line. Using long-dated, out-of-the-money call options could be a low-risk, high-reward way to play this move. Disclosure: I am/we are long SPLK.  I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

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USING DOCKER TO SCALE OPERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AT SPLUNK

USING DOCKER TO SCALE OPERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AT SPLUNK By @JennyFong January 2, 2018

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@Splunk wants to make #machinedata accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. With over 14,000 customers in 110 countries, providing the best software for #visualizing machine data involves hours and hours of testing against multiple supported platforms and various configurations. For Mike Dickey, Sr. Director in charge of engineering infrastructure at Splunk, the challenge was that 13 different engineering teams in California and Shanghai had contributed to test infrastructure sprawl, with hundreds of different projects and plans that were all being managed manually. At DockerCon Europe, Mike and Harish Jayakumar, Docker Solutions Engineer, shared how Splunk leveraged Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE) to dramatically improve build and deployment times on their test infrastructure, converge on a unified Continuous Integration (CI) workflow, and how they’ve now grown to 600 bare-metal servers deploying tens of thousands of Docker containers per day. You can watch the entire session here:

https://blog.docker.com/2018/01/docker-splunk/

Pivotal announces serverless computing product

@PivotalSoftware, Inc., the company accelerating digital transformation for enterprises, is announcing the next era of #PivotalCloudFoundry ( #PCF ), its cloud-native platforms, that will include a new serverless computing product called Pivotal Functions Service. The latest PCF also includes the initial availability of the company’s @Google Cloud/ @VMware @Kubernetes container product, Pivotal Container Service ( #PKS). Also new in the platform is an expanded Pivotal Services Marketplace, a marketplace featuring add-on services from @GitHub, @Splunk, @NewRelic, @Apigee, @IBM, and many more. Pivotal Function Service, is expected to become available in the next 6 months. Developers can use PFS to trigger activity based on data sent by users or messaging systems like @RabbitMQ or @Apache Kafka. Engineers will build functions—small snippets of code. These functions are then executed in PCF in response to events occurring. With PFS, software can react more intelligently to user requests and business data. Pivotal Container Service, helps companies run the popular Kubernetes container orchestration tool in their data center and the public cloud. It is one of the only products with constant compatibility to Google Container Engine (GKE). The service runs the current stable release of Kubernetes. Developers have full access to the Kubernetes API, with no proprietary extensions. With the service, developers can quickly create new Kubernetes clusters. The product integrates VMware NSX-T, helping administrators secure and manage network policies for the service. Another feature allows developers to connect Google’s data and machine learning services to their containers. Pivotal’s new application runtime, Pivotal Application Service, is upgraded as part of the expansion of PCF.
https://www.networksasia.net/article/pivotal-announces-serverless-computing-product.1513086973

Pivotal has something for everyone in the latest Cloud Foundry Platform release

Pivotal has something for everyone in the latest Cloud Foundry Platform release Posted yesterday by Ron Miller (@ron_miller) #Pivotal wants to be the development platform that serves everyone, and today at their #SpringOne Platform ( #S1P ) developer conference in San Francisco, they announced a huge upgrade to their @Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform (PCF) that includes support for serverless computing, containers and a new app store. As James Watters, senior VP of strategy sees it, this is all part of a deliberate strategy by Pivotal to provide a complete developer experience. “One of the things we do pretty well is curate an enterprise experience for folks. What we are doing with this release is coming forward in a curative way — these are the cloud native interfaces you need,” he said. That includes three main elements. For starters if you want to run containers using Kubernetes, the popular container orchestration tool, the company is making the Pivotal/Google/VMware Kubernetes container product announced in August generally available. As I wrote at the time, describing the roles of the three companies: “Google brings Kubernetes to the table, the open-source container orchestration tool. Pivotal adds the Platform as a Service piece with Cloud Foundry and VMware adds a management layer to pull it all together.” In addition, the company is offering a serverless product. Serverless computing enables developers to create applications that only access a server when they need one, usually when a specific event triggers the requirement. This saves companies from the cost of continually running a server when they only need it for the event triggers. The base PCF platform also gets some love with more fundamental Windows Server and VMware NSX-T integration along with a new a new Healthwatch dashboard that provides insights into the health of application running on PCF. Perhaps the biggest part of the announcement is the release of an app store they are calling the PCF marketplace. It’s designed to provide direct access to cloud services that PCF users can plug directly into the platform. It’s interesting that CoreOS introduced a similar service earlier today for the release of Tectonic 1.8. Perhaps app stores are the new thing for container-focused platforms, but both companies see it in similar terms. It provides a way to use best of breed cloud services without getting locked into one proprietary public cloud stack and getting stuck with a single vendor for any particular service. “One of the problems for big enterprises is moving to the public cloud and it’s hard to get started. With our new service catalog, they can connect to something like Google machine learning, and they are good to go,” Watters explained. The new app store includes connectors for GitHub, Splunk, New Relic and hundreds of others, according to Pivotal Pivotal is an odd duck in some ways. It’s an independent company that’s raised over $1.7 billion. Its last round in 2016 was for over $650 million.  Yet it falls under the federation of companies that made up EMC, the company that Dell bought in 2016 for $67 billion. Other investors have included GE, Microsoft and Ford.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/05/pivotal-has-something-for-everyone-in-the-latest-cloud-foundry-platform-release/?ncid=mobilenavtrend

Nutanix: This Rather Complicated Duckling Is Now Becoming A Swan

Summary #Nutanix announced the results of its fiscal Q1 last week. The results were substantially above prior expectations, and further above those expectations considering the elimination of some hardware sales. #Nutanix's EPS overattainment was partially driven by the inability of the company to hire to its plan. This might continue for a quarter or two. The company formally announced its pivot to an almost pure software model, with an impact on gross margins. Nutanix's EV/S ratio of less than 5X is far below the valuation of other infrastructure software vendors such as Splunk, which have slower growth. Was that Nutanix leaping a tall building in a single bound? Nutanix (NASDAQ:NTNX) reported the results of its first fiscal quarter on Thursday evening. It was an exciting way to end November. Nutanix shares, as most readers probably realize, have been on a tear over the past three months, rising by a bit more than 50% prior to the earnings release as many investors have become more familiar with both the Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) opportunity, as well as the leading position this company enjoys in that space. The company, as had been advertised in advance, announced its intention to eliminate 80% of its pass-through hardware business over the next year so that the vast preponderance of its revenues will come from software and services. The transition started in this quarter as the company eliminated 9% of its pass-through hardware business. In point of fact, as I will discuss later in the article, the beat, large as it was, was actually less than an apples to apples comparison might indicate. In addition, the company, like many other tech vendors these days, did not spend its opex budget due to the timing of new hires. As a result, the earnings beat of $.10/share on a base forecast of $.26 was probably greater than had been anticipated, even in the context of very positive expectations for this company. What should investors do? Sometimes, stocks actually reflect accurately what is going on at a company. In my view, this is one of those times. Growth is accelerating, and so is visibility. While the company isn’t pushing profitability to any great extent, that is understandable given both the magnitude of the opportunity and the land/expand strategy that I discussed in an earlier article. HCI is one of the more seminal trends in the IT space at this time and should continue to be so for some time to come. This is the leading vendor in the space. The pivot to pure software and recurring revenues, while not really changing the value proposition for customers, will provide investors both better forward visibility and higher gross margins, and usually factors in promoting a growing valuation. I continue to hold my position and expect to continue to do so for some time to come. I think the shares, despite their recent journey, are very much worth buying and holding. Changing from an appliance vendor to a software vendor in a single year without missing a beat, and then also changing to a vendor with a SaaS business model, is perhaps the equivalent of leaping a tall building at a single bound. The company said in response to a number of specific questions during the conference call that it had prepared the ground both contractually with its partners as well as with its sales people, and that effective the company’s fiscal Q3, commissions would no longer be paid on zero-margin pass through hardware. In addition, as will be detailed a bit more later in this article, Nutanix is developing cloud offerings of its solutions that will allow it to pivot its revenues to a SaaS basis. Over time, it seems self evident that the company will pivot its business so that most of its revenues will be coming from subscription and other recurring revenues streams and from almost all software and support. Ditching commodity hardware will change the parameters of this company’s financial optics, but it will not change the actual business model or expectations for growth, earnings or cash flow. Over a rather brief time span, it will achieve gross margins that are typical for SaaS software vendors - in the 80%-plus range for software and about 55% for other revenues including services - albeit on somewhat lower revenues. Nutanix is ascribing about 26% of its current revenues to commodity hardware, but that has started to decline. The CFO said that the company will recast its planned business model early next year, but overall gross margins should reach the mid-70% range sometime before the end of calendar 2018. It plans to eliminate at least 80% of its pass-through hardware-related revenues by the end of the current calendar year. High-growth software vendors with a recurring revenue model can achieve extraordinary valuations. It seems likely that over time this will to happen to the company.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4129464-nutanix-rather-complicated-duckling-now-becoming-swan

Global Big Data Analytics in Healthcare Market Trends and Key Players – Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Oracle Corp., Teradata Corp., Amazon Web Services, Inc., Cloudera and More

Market Overview on Global Big Data Analytics in Healthcare Industry: The research report titled Global Big Data Analytics in Healthcare Market offers useful insights into the trends and the factors that propel this Global market. This market study comprehensively discusses the salient features of the Global Big Data Analytics in Healthcare market in terms of the market structure and landscape, the challenges, demand factors, and the expected market performance. Download Sample Copy@ https://www.reportsmonitor.com/request-sample/?post=393505 The Big Data Analytics in Healthcare market is characterized by constant technological innovation to keep pace with the changing industrial needs. This Big Data Analytics in Healthcare Market report provides detailed analysis of worldwide markets for Big Data Analytics in Healthcare from 2012-2017 and provides extensive market forecasts 2017-2022 by region/country and subsectors. The report firstly introduced the Big Data Analytics in Healthcare Market basics: definitions, classifications, applications and market overview; product specifications; manufacturing processes; cost structures, raw materials and so on. Then it analyzed the world’s main region market conditions, including the product price, profit, capacity, production, supply, demand and market growth rate and forecast etc. In the end, the report introduced new project SWOT analysis, investment feasibility analysis, and investment return analysis. Scope of the Report This report studies the Global #BigData #Analytics in #Healthcare market, analyzes and researches the Big Data Analytics in Healthcare development status and forecast in Global, EU, Japan, China, India and Southeast Asia. Following Key players are covered: @HewlettPackard Co., @IBM Corp., @Oracle Corp., @Teradata Corp., @Amazon Web Services,  Inc., @Cloudera,  Inc., @Couchbase Inc., @EMC Corp., @Google Inc., @Microsoft Corp., @SAP AG, @Splunk Inc., @Pentaho Corporation Market segment by Type, Big Data Analytics in Healthcare can be split into #DescriptiveAnalytics, #PredictiveAnalytics , #PrescriptiveAnalytics Market segment by Applications, Hospitals & Clinics, Finance & Insurance Agencies , Research Organization additionally, this report recognizes pin-point investigation of adjusting competition subtleties and keeps you ahead in the competition. It offers a fast looking perception on different variables driving or averting the development of the Big Data Analytics in Healthcare market. It helps in understanding the key product areas and their future. It guides in taking knowledgeable business decisions by giving complete constitutions of the market and by enclosing a comprehensive analysis of market subdivisions. To sum up, it equally gives certain graphics and personalized SWOT analysis of premier market sectors. This Study on the Global Big Data Analytics in Healthcare Market is an all-inclusive study of the business sectors up-to-date outlines, industry enhancement drivers, and manacles. It provides market projections for the coming years. It contains an analysis of late augmentations in innovation, Porter’s five force model analysis and progressive profiles of hand-picked industry competitors. The report additionally formulates a survey of minor and full-scale factors charging for the new applicants in the Big Data Analytics in Healthcare market and the ones as of now in the market along with a systematic value chain exploration.

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Splunk Trains Workforce of Tomorrow With Amazon Web Services, NPower, Wounded Warrior Project and Year Up

SAN FRANCISCO & WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--.conf2017 – #Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), first in delivering “aha” moments from machine data, today announced it is helping military veterans and youth train for careers in technology through its Splunk4Good initiative and partnerships with nonprofit organizations NPower, Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) and Year Up as well as #AWS re:Start. Splunk is also expanding its nonprofit license program to offer free or discounted licenses to more nonprofit organizations. The announcements are the latest in the expansion of Splunk Pledge, Splunk’s commitment to donate over $100 million in Splunk software licenses, training, support, education and volunteerism to nonprofit organizations and educational institutions over 10 years. “Data analytics through Splunk enables businesses to grow and succeed, and now Splunk is enabling individuals, diverse communities, nonprofits and educational institutions around the world to similarly succeed. Splunk, together with our partners, is using machine data to change the world.” Tweet this Through partnerships with NPower, WWP’s Warriors to Work Initiative and Year Up, U.S.-based youth and military veterans will have free access to Splunk licenses and Splunk’s extensive education resources. There is no limit to the number of military veterans and youth members of NPower and Year Up who can access the training. Military veterans, former service members, and their families will be validated through a partnership with Splunk customer ID.me. Splunk expects to add additional workforce training partners this year. U.S. Veterans can sign up at https://veterans.splunk.com and members of NPower and Year Up can sign up at https://workplus.splunk.com. “Splunk is helping Wounded Warrior Project place veterans on the path to cutting-edge careers by equipping them with tangible and marketable skillsets,” said Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mike Linnington, CEO, WWP. “We are excited to partner with Splunk through our Warriors to Work initiative because careers requiring analytics and cyber security skills are in high demand, and there are thousands of available opportunities available globally. Partners like Splunk help us to better connect, serve and empower wounded warriors every day.” As part of Splunk’s commitment to help close the technology skills gap, Splunk is also working with AWS re:Start, a UK-focused military veteran and young adult training program that harnesses the AWS Partner Network (APN) to match veterans and youth with jobs. As part of its global work with AWS, Splunk will provide opportunities to graduates of this program to continue their cloud computing and data analytics education. Splunk Pledge Makes a Global Impact Since Splunk announced Splunk Pledge at .conf2016, organizations including Global Emancipation Network, TeamArrow and Team Rubicon have benefitted from free Splunk® Enterprise licenses. Their success inspired Splunk to expand its nonprofit licensing program. Splunk is now offering free, 10GB term licenses with elearning and standard support to any nonprofit organization in the world. Nonprofits seeking a larger license qualify for discounted pricing on Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk IT Service Intelligence and Splunk Cloud. All nonprofit organizations, including existing qualifying Splunk customers, may apply through the Splunk Pledge website. “Splunk is a critical enabler for Global Emancipation Network to identify and help prevent trafficking around the world,” said Sherrie Caltagirone, founder and executive director, Global Emancipation Network. “We have a tough mission that necessitates fast information gathering and fast action. Splunk has the ideal machine data expertise from its IT and security customers to help us problem solve quickly and creatively, whether by using Splunk to produce simple cell phone alerts for law enforcement, or by correlating seemingly disparate datasets of phone numbers and advertisement information to discover trafficking rings. Splunk is truly enabling us to solve one of the world’s biggest problems.” “I am deeply proud of Splunk Pledge as we work with the community around us to drive awareness and delivery of education and access to information. Among many successes, Splunk Pledge has already helped nonprofits use analytics to combat human trafficking, optimize solar power in transportation and accelerate humanitarian and disaster response,” said Doug Merritt, President and CEO, Splunk. “Data analytics through Splunk enables businesses to grow and succeed, and now Splunk is enabling individuals, diverse communities, nonprofits and educational institutions around the world to similarly succeed. Splunk, together with our partners, is using machine data to change the world.” Learn more about Splunk Pledge on the Splunk website and how your favorite cause can make a big difference with big data.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170926005331/en/Splunk-Trains-Workforce-Tomorrow-Amazon-Web-Services

Big Data Storage and Server Market Research Size, Share, Trends Analysis and Growth Forecast by Type and Application from 2017-2022

The Big Data Storage and Server Market provides detailed analysis of Market Overview, Market Drivers, Opportunities, Potential Application. Top Key Players of Big Data Storage and Server Market covered as: #IBM, #Oracle, #DELLTechnologies, #HP, #HPE Company, #NetApp, #Hitachi, #EMC Corporation, #RedHat, #IronSystem, #Intel, #ATT, #OVH, #Huawei, Hewlett-Packard, Big Data Storage and Server industry drives A strong trend of R&D investments in food industries. Other growth drivers include the need to curtail costs, growth and increased use of shifting commodity prices, strength of private label brands and increased competition from players in Big Data Storage and Server market. Get Sample PDF @ http://www.360marketupdates.com/enquiry/request-sample/10975033 The Big Data Storage and Server market research report gives an overview of Big Data Storage and Server industries on by analysing various key segments of this market based on the product types, application, end-to-end industries and its scenario. #BigData Storage and Server Market split by Product Type: #Hadoop, #NoSQL, #Splunk and Market split by Applications: Government, Enterprises, Others The regional distribution of Big Data Storage and Server industries is across the globe are considered for this market analysis, the result of which is utilized to estimate the performance of the International market over the period from 2017 to forecasted year.
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Cisco and Splunk Demonstrate the Power of Integration

You already know that insights from data are the foundation for digital business. Much of this data comes directly from your data center, network and security infrastructures. But let’s face it, using custom-built or disparate tools to analyze each system is challenging at best. This is where Cisco and Splunk can help. #Cisco and #Splunk have worked closely to integrate #SplunkEnterprise with #CiscoUCS, Networking, and Security portfolios, to provide real-time #ITOperations and #SecurityAnalytics. These capabilities will be on full display at Splunk .conf2017, where the Cisco team will be showcasing the industry’s most comprehensive set of Splunk integrations that enable you to derive real-time insights from your data, accelerate troubleshooting and provide holistic security. If you’ll be in Washington, DC, for Splunk .conf2017, make the Cisco booth your first stop for an action-paced agenda of demos and theater sessions covering Cisco Data Center – Next generation Cisco UCS for Splunk Enterprise Cisco Security – Cisco Firepower 6, Umbrella and Cloudlock integrations with Splunk Cisco Meraki – Developer platform to build apps on top of the Cisco Meraki Cloud For the deep dive, don’t miss the Cisco breakout session, Innovation through the Power of Integration, on Thursday, September 28 |1:20 p.m. | Ballroom C. You’ll hear from three Cisco teams whose technologies feature Splunk integrations. If you can’t join us in Washington, DC, join the conversation and interact with us on Twitter using #CiscoatSplunkConf. For more information on Cisco and Splunk solutions visit cisco.com/go/bigdata or download the eBook.

https://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/cisco-and-splunk-demonstrate-the-power-of-integration

Symantec's Play for Splunk Ends After Review

#SymantecCorp. held talks to acquire #SplunkInc. but called them off after reviewing the analytics software company’s finances, people familiar with the matter said. The data-security provider saw San Francisco-based Splunk as overvalued by the market based on Symantec’s estimates, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions were private. It isn’t clear what specific issues caused Symantec to step back. Symantec Chief Executive Officer Greg Clark told Bloomberg this month that Splunk was an attractive acquisition target for a strategic buyer. He didn’t say at the time whether it would be a good fit for Symantec. Clark also said Symantec was open to doing a large acquisition but didn’t disclose any talks to buy Splunk, which has a market value of $9.4 billion.  Symantec, with a market capitalization of $20.6 billion, has grown since last year through several large acquisitions. It acquired Blue Coat Inc. for $4.65 billion in a deal that brought Clark, previously Blue Coat’s CEO, to the company. It later announced a deal to buy LifeLock Inc. for $2.3 billion. Symantec also looked at buying FireEye Inc. before settling on Blue Coat. A spokeswoman for Mountain View, California-based Symantec declined to comment. A representative of Splunk didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-20/symantec-play-for-splunk-is-said-to-have-ended-after-review

Dell EMC Teams with Splunk to Deliver Packaged Solutions for Harnessing the Power of Machine Data

HOPKINTON, Mass., Sept. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- News summary  #DellEMC Ready Systems for #Splunk Validated Splunk solutions combine power of Splunk with simplicity, scalability of Dell EMC #VxRail Appliances and Dell EMC #VxRack System #FLEX Broadened relationship creates 'one-stop shop' for organizations looking to capture untapped value of machine data Complete solution including hardware, software and services empowers customers to collect, analyze, secure, and act on machine data in real-time Tweet this New #DellEMC Ready Systems for #Splunk empower orgs to understand, harness power of #machinedata http://bit.ly/2hgANAf #ReadySolutions #splunkconf17 Full story Today, Dell EMC announces an expanded relationship with Spunk that will provide organizations with an analytics-driven approach to resolve infrastructure and application problems faster, reduce downtime and increase customer satisfaction. By combining technology from both Dell EMC and Splunk, customers can leverage a simpler path to the adoption and expansion of Splunk through a pre-engineered portfolio of purpose-built systems for Splunk® Enterprise. The new Dell EMC Ready Systems for Splunk help organizations of all sizes combine the power of Splunk with the simplicity and scalability of Dell EMC VxRail Appliances and Dell EMC VxRack System FLEX. Unleashing the power and value of machine data Machine data can reveal valuable information about user transactions, customer behavior, machine behavior, IT operations analytics, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Dell EMC Ready Systems are engineered to handle this high-volume, high-velocity and highly diverse data set, enabling customers to harness the power of Splunk's monitoring, analytics, and machine learning capabilities with the simplified deployment and scalability of Dell EMC hyper-converged infrastructure. Splunk makes it simple to collect, analyze and act upon the untapped value of machine data generated by infrastructure, security solutions and business applications – giving organizations more insights to drive operational performance and business results as well as up to 90% reduction in mean time to resolution. Designed for customers looking to maximize their Splunk investment, the new Dell EMC Ready Systems for Splunk helps consolidate, simplify and protect machine data. The new Dell EMC Ready System maximizes customer's Splunk investments through the scale and ease of deployment Dell EMC hyper-converged infrastructure brings to the table. Solutions for Organizations of All Sizes Two flavors of Dell EMC Ready Systems for Splunk are now available. For small- to medium-sized businesses standardized on VMware, Dell EMC Ready System for Splunk on VxRail offers the benefits of the only Splunk appliances powered by Dell EMC PowerEdge platforms that are fully integrated and pre-tested with VMware vSAN™ to seamlessly extend existing VMware environments, simplify deployment and enable IT organizations to leverage in-house expertise and operational processes. Dell EMC Ready System for Splunk on VxRack FLEX is ideal for medium- to large-sized businesses that require data center rack scale, and support for multiple hypervisors, operating systems and bare-metal configurations, and want to run multiple workloads in a single rack. Availability The Dell EMC Ready System for Splunk solutions are now globally available directly through Dell EMC and its channel partners. To see these solutions in action, please visit Dell EMC at .conf2017: the 8th Annual Splunk Conference at Booth #P1. Supporting Quotes: Stu Miniman, senior analyst, Wikibon "Organizations face a barrage of information from an ever-growing number of devices. It becomes difficult not only to understand all this incoming data, but also analyze and identify what data is valuable. Dell EMC's work with Splunk to offer new Ready Systems for Splunk, featuring VxRail and VxRack FLEX, customers gain flexibility and simplicity to address this issue in real time, with the ability to collect, analyze, secure, act and report on machine data." Rick Fitz, senior vice president and general manager, IT markets, Splunk "Dell EMC and Splunk strategically partner to help our joint customers find new ways to access the benefits of machine data analytics through Splunk while deploying seamlessly and at scale with Dell EMC hyper-converged infrastructure. With these new offerings, we are excited to provide a streamlined path for our customers to easily harness the power of machine data to successfully drive operational performance and meaningful business results." Armughan Ahmad, senior vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud and Ready Solutions, Dell EMC "Every second of every day, hundreds of thousands of IT components record what's happening in an organization, with those records coming in many different formats. Businesses need a way to not only understand what data they're capturing, but also its value – how they can use it to drive their business goals. We're pleased to expand our relationship with Splunk, a recognized industry leader, to offer businesses the ability to harness the power and value of their machine data in real time." Additional resources Learn more about the Dell EMC Ready Solutions for Splunk Find out more about how Dell Technologies is collaboratively solving customers' biggest challenges by visiting Dell Technologies' Annual Report to Customers Connect with Dell EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and DECN Follow the latest news on Twitter from @Dell or @DellEMCNews
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Global Enterprise Synthetic Application Monitoring Market to Exceed USD 21 Billion by 2022 Markets Trends, Technologies || Manufactuters: Dell, Microsoft, Splunk Inc

Synthetic monitoring (also known as active monitoring or proactive monitoring) is website monitoring that is done using a Web browser emulation or scripted recordings of Web transactions. Behavioral scripts (or paths) are created to simulate an action or path that a customer or end-user would take on a site. The research report, titled “Enterprise Synthetic Application Monitoring Market Report” provides a holistic outlook of this global market. The market study includes the study of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats impacting the overall market along with identifying the reasons that are intensifying the overall competition. The report opens with a snapshot of the global Enterprise Synthetic Application Monitoring market and concludes with the analysis of the competitive landscape of the overall market.  The report studies the present state of Enterprise Synthetic Application Monitoring market in order to create an accurate insight into the market’s future. This passage includes numerous arrangements, definitions, the chain assembly of the industry in one piece, and the products various uses. This section also incorporates a detailed analysis of the different development plans and government policies that influence Enterprise Synthetic Application Monitoring market, its cost assemblies and industrialized processes. Download PDF Sample Copy: https://www.researchnreports.com/request_sample.php?id=140217 The report also provides a segmented analysis of the global Enterprise Synthetic Application Monitoring market on the basis of product types as well as the applications. The report’s conclusion leads into the overall scope of the global Enterprise Synthetic Application Monitoring market with respect to feasibility of investments in various segments of the market, along with a descriptive passage that outlines the feasibility of new projects that might succeed in the global Enterprise Synthetic Application Monitoring market in the near future. The report has been compiled using primary and secondary research methodologies. The information has been collected from reliable sources such as interviews with market leaders, journals, publications, conferences, and white papers. The report analyzes the historical data along with the current developments in the market to map a fair trajectory of the Enterprise Synthetic Application Monitoring market during the forecast period. Company Profiled in this Report: The research report profiles the key players operating in the #EnterpriseSyntheticApplicationMonitoring market includes; #AppDynamicsInc., #AppNeta, #BMCSoftware Inc., #CATechnologies , #CatchpointSystems Inc., #DellTechnologies Inc., #Dynatrace, #HewlettPackardEnterprise, #InternationalBusinessMachines ( #IBM ) Corporation, #MicrosoftCorporation, #NetScoutSystems Inc., #NewRelicInc., #Rigor, #RiverbedTechnology, #SmartBearSoftware, #SolarWinds, #Splunk Inc. Inquiry for Buying This Report: https://www.researchnreports.com/enquiry_before_buying.php?id=140217 The geographical segmentation provides a distinct assessment of the factors supporting these regions, the favorable regulatory policies, and the impact of the political frameworks. It also helps in determining reasons for the progress of certain segments over others in the looming years. By Regions, this report covers: US Europe UK Asia Pacific Japan China India Rest of the World Complete

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Splunk Climbs On Earnings

#Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: #SPLK) Splunk, a global software solutions yesterday reported their fiscal second quarter 2017 financial results. Splunk reported adjusted second quarter earnings of $0.08 per share which beat analyst expectations of $0.06 per share. SPLKreported second quarter revenues of $280 million which fell short of analyst expectations of $268.7 million. Splunk Inc. CEO’s Comments I am pleased with the solid sales execution in Q2, particularly our results in EMEA,” said Doug Merritt, President and CEO, Splunk. “As I traveled across Europe, Asia and North America over the last two months, I was excited to see businesses, governments and universities adopting Splunk across multiple departments and use cases. Customer success and product innovation are at the heart of what we do. I am looking forward to the more than 140 customer presentations at .conf2017, our annual users conference, September 25-28 in Washington, D.C. It is an excellent opportunity to learn the many new ways that leading organizations are using Splunk software to solve problems and gain Operational Intelligence. Business Wire SPLK Technical Analysis SPLK Technical Analysis SPLK opened trading yesterday at $60.68 which was up from the previous day’s trading close of $60.33. Shares closed trading yesterday at $60.28 and spiked up in the after hours to $65.39, equivalent to a 8% increase from the closing price. Taking a look at the daily chart we can see the last time SPLK traded above these levels we have to go back to May 25 when it traded at lows of $67.09. Taking a closer look at the daily chart we can see that before the spike up SPLK had been in an overall downward trend dating back to May 16th when it traded at $68.83. SPLK has a float of 137.25 million shares and traded 1.34 times the normal daily trading volume on Thursday. For trading purposes, I would like to see SPLK open trading on Friday above $63.70 and if it does I would be looking to take a long position at the bell. My stop order would be $0.40 from my entry position fearing anything more than that and the stock would start to fill in the gap up. Company Profile Splunk Inc. provides software solutions that enable organizations to gain real-time operational intelligence in the United States and internationally. The company’s products enable users to collect, index, search, explore, monitor, and analyze data regardless of format or source. It offers Splunk Enterprise, a machine data platform with collection, indexing, search, reporting, analysis, alerting, monitoring, and data management capabilities; and Splunk Cloud service. The company also provides #SplunkLight, which offers log search and analysis for small IT environments; and #SplunkAnalytics for #Hadoop, a software for exploring, analyzing, and visualizing data stored in Hadoop and #Amazon (NASDAQ: #AMZN ) #S3. In addition, it offers Splunk Enterprise Security, which addresses emerging security threats; SPLK User Behavior Analytics that detects cyber-attacks and insider threats; and SPLK IT Service Intelligence, which monitors health and key performance indicators of critical IT services, as well as SPLK App for AWS to ensure cloud security and compliance; SPLK Stream to capture, analyze, and correlate network wire data; and DB Connect to get enterprise context; Palo Alto Networks App for SPLK to gain visibility to Palo Alto Networks firewalls; and SPLK App for Salesforce. Further, the company operates Splunkbase and Splunk Answers Websites, which provide an environment to share apps, collaborate on the use of its software, and provide community-based support, as well as offers application programming interfaces and software development kits. Additionally, it offers maintenance and customer support, training, and consulting and implementation services. The company serves cloud and online services, education, financial services, government, healthcare/pharmaceuticals, industrials/manufacturing, media/entertainment, retail/ecommerce, technology, and telecommunications industries. Splunk Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

https://m.investing.com/analysis/splunk-inc-splk-stock-shares-climb-up-on-better-than-expected-earn-200209533

ODPi Launches Apache Bigtop Grant Fund Program

SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- #ODPi, a nonprofit organization accelerating the open ecosystem of #bigdata solutions, today announced #Apache™  #Bigtop " #TestDrive " Grant Program, a new grant funding program designed to increase developer involvement in the #Apache Software Foundation (ASF) project. Through the program, ODPi is investing $50,000 to fund developer work with the world's top Apache and big data developers and architects to expand Bigtop's functionality and usability. To apply to participate in the Bigtop "Test Drive" Grant Program, submit proposals here by Friday, July 14 at 11:59pm PDT. "By launching this program, we benefit the enterprise end-user, developers, and ultimately build a stronger relationship with the Apache Software Foundation and the big data communities hosted by it," said Roman Shaposhnik, VP of Technology for ODPi and Apache Hadoop and Bigtop committer and ASF member. "We encourage the community to apply for a #Bigtop grant and work alongside #ODPi member companies #IBM, #SAS, #Hortonworks, #Splunk, #GE and others as we strengthen and extend #ApacheBigtop."

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Splunk Tops in Big Data, Despite Cloudera, Cisco, Says Maxim Group

Despite #Cloudera, #Cisco, Says Maxim Group Maxim's Nehal Chokshi defends the value of " #bigdata " software maker, even as it faces stepped-up competition from newly public Cloudera, and from Cisco, which now owns #AppDynamics. ByTiernan Ray May 23, 2017 2:58 p.m. ET Maxim Group’s Nehal Chokshi today reiterates a Buy rating on shares of #Splunk (SPLK), the software provider that helps firms’ analyze seems of data, writing that it is still his “Top Pick” for big data jobs, even as several analysts today laud the# prospects of competitor Cloudera (CLDR). Chockshi, who started coverage back in February of last year, was initially worried that Cloudera would be the company’s “biggest threat." Since then, Cisco Systems (CSCO) bought AppDynamics for $3.9 billion in January, and now Cisco is "our bigger concern with respect to investing in SPLK, especially since APPD can theoretically leverage the strong balance sheet of CSCO to drive greater S&M scale and invest more aggressively in R&D to broaden out the capability from just Application Performance Management to include SIEM, ITOM and Business Intelligence.

http://www.barrons.com/articles/splunk-tops-in-big-data-despite-cloudera-cisco-says-maxim-group-1495565932

Cisco UCS Spelunking. Exploring Cisco’s Splunk Community and Other News Bits

#Splunk is one of our key #CiscoUCS ISV Partners in the area of data and analytics for the #DataCenter. #BigData as we all know throws off tons of structured and unstructured data and the ability to discover its meaning and therefore value requires good analytics capabilities. This is where Splunk comes into play with Cisco UCS. Our C Series and S Series Cisco UCS offerings when combined with our Cisco UCS Big Data and Analytics Integrated Infrastructure CVDs deliver awesome data platforms for Splunk – we’re fast; we scale; we’re easy to manage; we save you Op Ex and Cap Ex budget; and we improve your Data Scientist’s productivity. Splunk, as a recognized and multiple winner in the IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) segment according to Gartner, provides the analytics engine. Together we’re a pretty awesome team. Over the past few years the Cisco UCS team has been working with the Splunk R&D team on various Cisco integrations ranging from UCS, and Nexus, to Spark and Security. Just recently the Cisco DEVNET team showcased their Splunk portal. It’s quite cool, check it out here to see the Data Center and other integrations available to you.
http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/cisco-ucs-spelunking-exploring-ciscos-splunk-community-and-other-news-bits

Dell Technologies grabs giant spanner, begins the Great EMC Retool

Following on from an exec-level re-org and top table resignations in December, and layoffs in January, lumbering tech monster Dell Technologies is again ringing the divisional changes in a bid to reduce reporting lines move up the sales dial. Within David Goulden’s Information Solutions Group (ISG) - the combined EMC and Dell servers and networking organisation - the Chad Sakac-run CPSD (Converged Platforms and Solutions Division) has merged two units and dropped one incumbent exec. Senior veep Jim Ganthier bossed the Validated Solutions unit with fellow big cheese Armughan Ahmad heading the Global Solutions and Technology Alliances unit: now Ahmad will run both. Ganthier leaves Goulden’s ISG to join a unit led by Dell’s top female exec; EVP and Chief Customer Officer Karen Quintos. She was Dell’s Chief marketing officer before the EMC acquisition but she made way for Jeremy Burton post merger and became CCO. Ganthier is to become SVP for Customer Solutions Advocacy,reporting to Karen Quintos. Rory Read, Dell Technologies Chief Integration Officer was involved with Sakac in effecting the transfer. According to an intenral staff email from Sakac that was seen by us: "We ... need to constantly be evaluating how to make things simpler, clearer. Under Rory Read’s leadership, we have an opportunity to evaluate ways we can simplify our solutions, processes and how we work together to benefit our customers and team members." There is a critical opportunity to ensure a total closed feedback loop to make sure that we are getting the last mile enablement to our key customers and key partners right. There is also an opportunity for very senior customer advocacy for Dell Technologies about our solutions - not just our point products. This would require a technologist who would engage with our largest customers and partners; explain how we come together as a whole vs. the parts; showcase the solutions we have; help them with their journey; and, listen for feedback on how to get even better. If Bill Scannell and Marius Haas’ teams are the thousands of ‘hands and feet’ - think of this as critical ‘eyes and ears’ to close the feedback loop from the ‘outside in’ perspective. Of course, this role is far more than just eyes and ears. It’s vital that we understand our customers’ pain points as well as their outcomes so that we can guide them towards the right solutions for their business needs. This technologist will be a vital resource to our sales team and can work hand in hand with them to bring deep enterprise solutions expertise to the customer. #DellTechnologies CSPD president Chad Sakac told us: "There was a clear opportunity to do something obvious – our workloads and solutions are VERY linked to our tech alliance partners. Examples? #RedHat wants to build their RedHat #OpenStack Platform 10 with us. #SAPHANA platforms business is cooking. Our #Cloudera/#Hortonworks / #Splunk data analytics business is booming. #Microsoft wants to build #VxRack #Azure Stack with us. And of course, our Dell Technologies Strategically Aligned businesses like #VMware and #Pivotal are family – critical for solutions like #VxRail, #VxRack #SDDC, the Native #HybridCloud and more." "What do these all have in common? Tech Alliances + Solution = the offer. "Bringing the Tech Alliances team and the Solutions team together is what everyone always needs – simplification, focus. Armughan Ahmad is a long-time Dell veteran, and ideal for the combined role." "At the same time – a great opportunity for another great long time Dell veteran in Jim Ganthier. With big parts of integration in the rear-view mirror, having people that are technologists, that know our solutions could be part of our Chief Customer Office led by Karen Quintos. Jim’s experience with our solutions business helps us get leverage out to him being in front of many of our customers…. That feedback to Armughan represents a 'closed loop'. Likewise, bringing our Tech Alliances and Solutions teams together = a clear move, good for the customer, good for Dell EMC, good for Jim." He added: "We’re in full swing, man. Integration is going amazingly well. We’ve fully aligned our field model and account structure, the unified channel program is ready to roll, and we’re making a few additional fine-tune adjustments to come out of the gate strong as we kick off our fiscal year." Dell Technologies - the holding company for the trading entities - has got a load of debts to pay down following the $60bn+ buy of EMC, and anything that helps it achieve this has got to be pursued. Expect further tuning as time passes

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/dell_technologies_reorganising_emc/

Splunk's Q3 strong, Nutanix makes earnings debut, Autodesk cuts outlook

#Splunk delivered a better-than-expected third quarter, while #Autodesk 's outlook disappointed and #Guidewire and #Nutanix had solid results. The company, which provides software that uses big data tools to monitor operations, reported a third-quarter net loss of $93.45 million, or 69 cents a share, on revenue of $244.8 million, up from $174.4 million a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings for the third quarter were 12 cents a share. Wall Street was expecting Splunk to deliver non-GAAP earnings of 8 cents a share on sales of $230 million. Splunk said it added almost 500 enterprise customers. As for the outlook, Splunk projected fourth-quarter revenue between $286 million to $288 million. For the fiscal year ending Jan. 31, Splunk said revenue will be between $930 million and $932 million. Among other tech earnings: Autodesk's transition to a cloud model continues. Autodesk reported a third-quarter net loss of 64 cents a share, or 19 cents a share, on a non-GAAP basis. Sales for the quarter were down 18 percent from a year ago to $490 million. The Autodesk loss was better than the 24 cents a share on sales of $476.8 million projected by Wall Street.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/splunks-q3-strong-nutanix-makes-earnings-debut-autodesk-cuts-outlook/