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United States 7,937,344. Other inventors. Recommendations received. Michael Baum. “Over seven years Rob has been a very important and close founding partner at Splunk. I've learned so much...
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Sep 28, 2017 · Rob Das co-founded Splunk and has served as Chief Architect since 2005. He also served as Vice President, member of the board of directors. Previously, Mr. Das has been a large-scale, distributed software architect and engineer for both early-stage ventures and large companies, including Avolent Inc., an application software provider, Lotus ...
- The Splunk Story
- Splunk’s Advantage
- Opportunities For Best-Of-Breed Solutions
- Opportunities For Event Producers
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When Rob Das and Erik Swandecided to start a new company in 2002, the pair asked engineers at 60+ companies in verticals ranging from healthcare to manufacturing to technology how they deal with infrastructure problems at work. One of their friends likened the process to spelunking; discovering and remediating infrastructure problems was like crawl...
Splunk’s core product, core GTM, and core pricing model remain relatively unchanged in the 18 year history of the company. In 2011, Splunk had ~300 employees. Today, it’s pushing 7,000. Their 2020 Q3 earnings showed a ~40% increase in ARR on a YoY basis. Splunk has two main advantages that make its core business so enduring: flexibility and vendor ...
Splunk works, especially for F100 enterprises that are bought in. However, from my conversations with several CISOs, I believe Splunk’s advantages are eroding for the following reasons: 1. Complexity. For less complicated use cases like log retention, compliance, and daily monitoring, using Splunk is a bit like driving a Boeing 787 to go 5 miles in...
SIEM is an event aggregator. Log files generated by event producers are ingested by Splunk and then acted upon via orchestration and automation workflows. The problem with this model is that even if you had the perfect SIEM solution for your company, conclusion quality will always be closely correlated with event quality. Two clear opportunities he...
Crystallizing this piece into three acts, I believe we are at the close of Act 1 and at the cusp of Act 2. Act 1 was Splunk – a kitchen sink platform that unifies all data for maximum visibility and discoverability. This was a generational shift that characterized SecOps for the past 2 decades, but exploding data volume and drastic reduction in col...
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Michael Baum, Rob Das and Erik Swan co-founded Splunk Inc in 2003. Venture firms August Capital, Sevin Rosen, Ignition Partners and JK&B Capital backed the company. By 2007, Splunk had raised US$40 million. It became profitable in 2009. In 2012 Splunk had its initial public offering, trading under NASDAQ symbol SPLK.
- October 2003; 20 years ago
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Sep 21, 2023 · The deal, which values each Splunk share at $157, is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2024. It is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Upon...
Designation : Co-Founder, Splunk. Rob Das, a California native, is a retired entrepreneur in the software industry. He has over 35 years of experience designing and building real-time data analytics platforms, operating systems, networking infrastructure, group collaboration, and financial information delivery systems.
