Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B

Re:Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B by cik on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:43PM (#20764166)

Concur, also from inside the industry. The reality is that almost every C-Suite executive I talk to sees security as a cost center, and rolls it (and IT even) into the CFO, or the COO.

We focus on helping an organization make security an enabler. Yet even those customers who get it - really only care when there's a breach, or if someone's bacon has seriously been saved.

Suffice it to say, I find the industry troubling, to say the least.

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Re:Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B by staticassertion on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:09PM (#20764304)

Lots of things are cost centers. SRE is a cost center. OPS is a cost center. Companies still pay a fortune for services that optimize these areas.

Hell, why do you think Splunk has 1 billion dollars to burn?

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Re:Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B by SamuelAdams on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:15AM (#20767181)

>Lots of things are cost centers.

Agreed. If you boil it all down, the only things that are "profit centers" are either Marketing or Sales. Everything else is a cost.

When a company I work for begins putting its employees into boxes like that, I look for a quick exit. It's only a matter of time before the C-level staff start reducing those "cost-centers" to a few overworked, underpaid staff.

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