This week, Splunk, the leader in machine data intelligence, announced the acquisition of IT alerting solution VictorOps for $120 million. My congratulations to the VictorOps team for building a solid product for alert management and collaboration, demonstrating a wicked sense of humor and creating some cool T-shirts. While the acquisition makes sense on many levels, […]
Splunk Agrees to Acquire VictorOps
Addition of Incident Management Leader to Create Collaborative, Analytics-Driven Platform for DevOps SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), first in delivering “aha” moments from machine data, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire VictorOps, Inc., a leader in DevOps incident management. Under the terms of the agreement, Splunk will acquire VictorOps for a total purchase price […]
Splunk Disrupts IT Infrastructure Monitoring With New Inexpensive Product to Keep Businesses Running
Splunk Insights for Infrastructure Unifies Metrics and Logs to Monitor IT Performance at Low Cost and Free for Small Environments up to Approximately 50 Servers SAN FRANCISCO – May 1, 2018 – Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), first in delivering “aha” moments from machine data, today announced the general availability of Splunk® Insights for Infrastructure. The […]
Splunk and the ELK Stack: A Side-by-Side Comparison
This article’s purpose is to compare the “big two” in the log analytics world—Splunk and the ELK Stack. But before we go into details, a short introduction to the competitors is required. Splunk is the “Google for log files” heavyset enterprise tool that was the first log analysis software and has been the market leader […]
Get Your DevOps Right With These 7 Technologies
Editors’ Note: As with all of our contributed articles, the views expressed in this article are of the author, not staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud. Due to its vendor-agnostic stance, staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud does not endorse any particular technology. There was a time when the operations team and the developers regularly were at each other’s throats. The developers were never satisfied […]
From Artisanal to Factory: The IT Pendulum is Swinging Back
Splunk Vice President of IT Markets and Chief Technology Advocate Andi Mann sees DevOps moving from an artisanal approach to an IT factory. This represents a reversal: Historically, developers operated in a factory-like environment, passing chunks of work down the line, but that caused problems because “different managers owned different sections of the production line.” […]
Continuous Delivery and Deployment: A Tale of Two Models
EnerNOC (Energy Network Operations Center) is an energy intelligence software provider with more than 1,300 employees in its Boston headquarters and international locations. The public firm helps global customers to efficiently consume energy. “Our mission is to change how the world uses energy, helping customers to improve profitability and visibility for better decision-making and sustainability […]