A Splunk executive explains why the company made its biggest acquisition ever with the $1 billion purchase of SignalFX

SignalFx was last valued at $500 million. Now, Splunk will acquire it for $1.05 billion. Here's why Splunk believes SignalFx's products are valuable.
The Motley Fool

Is Splunk Stock a Buy After Getting a $1 Billion Investment From Silver Lake?

The private equity firm must think the big data software leader has potential it hasn't lived up to. Splunk's $1 billion cash windfall gets it access to some cheap capital -- at least cheap in the ...
Forbes

Splunk Expands Cloud Capabilities With $1 Billion Acquisition Of SignalFx

Splunk’s stock jumped as much as 10% in after hours Wednesday on the heels of the SignalFx acquisition and a quarterly earnings report in which the company beat Wall Street expectations. Software ...
Forbes

Splunk And Oracle Show How Data Analytics Is Transforming Formula 1

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. The Formula 1 U.S. Grand Prix was in my hometown of Austin back ...
The Motley Fool

1 Reason to Buy Splunk, but 2 Reasons to Sell After the Q1 Report

The data analytics and observability industry is growing fast, but data parsing software leader Splunk (SPLK +0.00%) has been a laggard over the last year. Shares are down some 35% over the last ...
Business Wire

McLaren Racing and Splunk Announce Multi-Year Formula 1 Partnership Extension

WORKING, UK & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLK), provider of the Data-to-Everything Platform, and McLaren Racing have today announced a multi-year partnership extension which ...
SiliconANGLE

Splunk acquires application monitoring firm SignalFX for $1.05B

Big data analytics company Splunk Inc. announced its largest-ever acquisition today as it delivered second-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street’s forecasts. Splunk said it’s intending to ...
Business Insider

Splunk surges 14% after the software company announces a $1 billion investment from Silver Lake

Splunk stock leaped 14% after the company announced a $1 billion investment from Silver Lake. The cash infusion will be plowed back into the business and used to fund a $1 billion share buyback.
Business Wire

Splunk Ranks No. 1 in ITOA Market Share for Seventh Consecutive Year

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the Data-to-Everything Platform, today announced it was ranked No. 1 in IDC’s Worldwide IT Operations Analytics Software Market ...
Nasdaq

McLaren Racing and Splunk Announce Multi-Year Formula 1 Partnership Extension

WORKING, UK & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLK), provider of the Data-to-Everything Platform, and McLaren Racing have today announced a multi-year partnership extension which ...