). Splunk is sitting at a market cap of $8.81 billion and was trading up around 1.5 percent following word the acquisition. We talked to two analysts, who offered their thoughts on the rumor. Steven ...

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The data-analytics area has plenty of promise, but can upstart Splunk succeed where even giants IBM and Oracle are having challenges producing the outpaced growth investors want to see? Splunk has ...

To this Splunk president and chief executive Doug Merritt fired back, "The thing that worries me the most about Oracle’s apparent new data offering isn’t their deep misunderstanding of how and why ...

Splunk notched one of Silicon Valley’s best-performing stock debuts of 2012. Now it’s started the new year on a tear. Since Bloomberg News reported Jan. 11 that the San Francisco big-data company was ...

Hot on the heels of Dell’s rumored mega-buyout, rival firm IBM is reported to be flexing its own financial muscles as it looks to make data analytics firm Splunk its first major acquisition of the ...

Splunk will release its quarterly report on Thursday, and in the year and a half since going public, the data-analytics company has seen a warm reception from investors, who've helped push its share ...

Can Splunk Succeed Even if IBM and Oracle Sputter? Splunk has sought to help business enterprises gather and analyze crucial data in an attempt to reap value from that information. By doing so, Splunk ...