Cisco buys cybersecurity and observability company Splunk for $28 billion
Cisco is intending to acquire Splunk. To make this happen, Splunk will be delisted. Cisco offers $157 per share. Consequently, the total acquisition will cost Cisco about $28 billion.
The acquisition has already received unanimous support from the boards of directors of both parties, Cisco indi... Read more
OpenTelemetry promises an open standard for observability
OpenTelemetry is an observability framework that combines data on logs, traces and metrics. The framework is used as an open standard that makes it possible to immediately link the programming languages and infrastructures your company uses.
Keeping business applications constantly up-to-date ca... Read more
The cloud drives innovation, but leads to dangerous IT complexity
Research from Cisco AppDynamics shows that nearly half of large companies are developing their innovations with cloud-native technologies. The research team surveyed 1,140 IT professionals from companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue.
78 percent of respondents said they are stori... Read more
Splunk integrates security and observability with Splunk AI
Splunk has unveiled Splunk AI at .conf23 in Las Vegas, which Techzine is attending. In addition to launching a generative chatbot, the security and observability company has integrated more AI innovations into its own platform.
"Everyone is talking about AI right now," observes SVP Products &... Read more
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 strengthens collaboration, observability
GitHub has given GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) a lot of new functionality with version 3.9. The update should enable developers to collaborate better and provide more observability.
In the new version of GHES, GitHub Projects gets more functionality. The tool allows developers to better collab... Read more
Cisco acquires Accedian for more network observability
Cisco acquires Accedian, giving the company access to the Skylight platform. This platform gives companies visibility into the quality of their network environments and underlying applications.
Cisco is already active in monitoring network performance and ensuring the quality of these environmen... Read more
Sumo Logic shows enhancements for new and existing customers
Sumo Logic has announced a range of new features for its SaaS platform. New customers are more likely to gain new insights through better onboarding, according to the company. Another notable addition to the platform is Predict for Metrics. The tool enables users to monitor system usage and identif... Read more
Rookout completes developer-first observability
Rookout now complements its mission of shift-left observability. After metrics, traces and logs, it offers smart snapshots within its developer-first platform.
Rookout is one of the companies we visit during the recent IT Press Tour in Israel. The company was founded in late 2017. Since then, it... Read more
Back-ups should be part of a modern layered security approach
Rubrik has recently been increasingly asserting itself as a security vendor. The announcement in late 2022 of Cyber Recovery seemed like a good reason to talk to Anneka Gupta, Rubrik's Chief Product Officer. What can we expect from Rubrik and more generally from backups in terms of security?
Wit... Read more
Cisco to acquire Lightspin to deliver “Contextual Cloud Security”
The US tech giant will round out its product offering with a "holistic solution" that provides end-to-end cloud security posture management (CSPM) across cloud-native resources.
This week Cisco announced that it is acquiring Lightspin Technologies, a Tel Aviv-based start-up that helps enterprise... Read more