SPLK-3001 learner - Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin Updated: 2023
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SPLK-3001 Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin
A Splunk Certified Enterprise Security Admin manages a Splunk Enterprise Security environment, including ES event processing and normalization, deployment requirements, technology add-ons, settings, risk analysis settings, threat intelligence and protocol intelligence configuration, and customizations. This certification demonstrates an individual's ability to install, configure, and manage a Splunk Enterprise Security deployment.
Course Prerequisites
Splunk Fundamentals 1
Splunk Fundamentals 2
Splunk System Administration
Splunk Data Administration
Architecting Splunk Enterprise Deployments (recommended but not required)
Course Topics
Monitoring and Investigation
Security Intelligence
Forensics, Glass Tables and Navigation Control
ES Deployment
Installation and Configuration
Validating ES Data
Custom Add-ons
Tuning Correlation Searches
Creating Correlation Searches
Lookups and Identity Management
Threat Intelligence Framework
Course Objectives
Module 1 – ES Introduction
Overview of ES features and concepts
Module 2 – Monitoring and Investigation
Security Posture
Incident Review
Notable events management
Module 3 – Security Intelligence
Overview of security intel tools
Module 4 – Forensics, Glass Tables and Navigation Control
Explore forensics dashboards
Examine glass tables
Configure navigation and dashboard permissions
Module 5 – ES Deployment
Identify deployment topologies
Examine the deployment checklist
Understand indexing strategy for ES
Understand ES Data Models
Module 6 – Installation and Configuration
Prepare a Splunk environment for installation
Download and install ES on a search head
Test a new install
Understand ES Splunk user accounts and roles
Post-install configuration tasks
Module 7 – Validating ES Data
Plan ES inputs
Configure technology add-ons
Module 8 – Custom Add-ons
Design a new add-on for custom data
Use the Add-on Builder to build a new add-on
Module 9 – Tuning Correlation Searches
Configure correlation search scheduling and sensitivity
Tune ES correlation searches
Module 10 – Creating Correlation Searches
Create a custom correlation search
Configuring adaptive responses
Search export/import
Module 11 – Lookups and Identity Management
Identify ES-specific lookups
Understand and configure lookup lists
Module 12 – Threat Intelligence Framework
Understand and configure threat intelligence
Configure user activity analysis
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Question: 59
The Add-On Builder creates Splunk Apps that start with what?
A . DA
B . SA
C . TA
D . App-
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/developapps/enterprisesecurity/abouttheessolution/
Question: 60
When investigating, what is the best way to store a newly-found IOC?
A . Paste it into Notepad.
B . Click the Add IOC button.
C . Click the Add Artifact button.
D . Add it in a text note to the investigation.
Answer: B
Question: 61
What feature of Enterprise Security downloads threat intelligence data from a web server?
A . Threat Service Manager
B . Threat download Manager
C . Threat Intelligence Parser
D . Threat Intelligence Enforcement
Answer: B
Question: 62
Which column in the Asset or Identity list is combined with event security to make a notable events urgency?
A . VIP
B . Priority
C . Importance
D . Criticality
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ES/6.1.0/User/Howurgencyisassigned
Question: 63
Which argument to the | tstats command restricts the search to summarized data only?
A . summaries=t
B . summaries=all
C . summariesonly=t
D . summariesonly=all
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.2/Knowledge/Acceleratedatamodels
Question: 64
Which setting is used in indexes.confto specify alternate locations for accelerated storage?
A . thawedPath
B . tstatsHomePath
C . summaryHomePath
D . warmToColdScript
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.2/Knowledge/Acceleratedatamodels
Question: 65
Which of the following are examples of sources for events in the endpoint security domain dashboards?
A . REST API invocations.
B . Investigation final results status.
C . Workstations, notebooks, and point-of-sale systems.
D . Lifecycle auditing of incidents, from assignment to resolution.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ES/6.1.0/User/EndpointProtectionDomaindashboards
Question: 66
Which of the following is a way to test for a property normalized data model?
A . Use Audit -> Normalization Audit and check the Errors panel.
B . Run a | datamodelsearch, compare results to the CIM documentation for the datamodel.
C . Run a | loadjobsearch, look at tag values and compare them to known tags based on the encoding.
D . Run a | datamodelsearch and compare the results to the list of data models in the ES normalization guide.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/CIM/4.15.0/User/ UsetheCIMtonormalizedataatsearchtime
Question: 67
In order to include an eventtype in a data model node, what is the next step after extracting the correct fields?
A . Save the settings.
B . Apply the correct tags.
C . Run the correct search.
D . Visit the CIM dashboard.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/CIM/4.15.0/User/UsetheCIMtonormalizeOSSECdata
Question: 68
What role should be assigned to a security team member who will be taking ownership of notable events in the
incident review dashboard?
A . ess_user
B . ess_admin
C . ess_analyst
D . ess_reviewer
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ES/6.1.0/User/Triagenotableevents
Question: 69
When creating custom correlation searches, what format is used to embed field values in the title, description, and
drill-down fields of a notable event?
A . $fieldname$
B . fieldname
C . %fieldname%
D . _fieldname_
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ITSI/4.4.2/Configure/Createcorrelationsearch
Question: 70
What does the risk framework add to an object (user, server or other type) to indicate increased risk?
A . An urgency.
B . A risk profile.
C . An aggregation.
D . A numeric score.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ES/6.1.0/User/RiskScoring
Question: 71
DRAG DROP
You are implementing Dynamics 365 Customer Service for your company.
The company is deciding whether to use an on-premises or online implementation. One of the biggest concerns is
about disaster recovery processes.
You need to explain how each system would be recovered with minimal effort and loss of data in case of a disaster.
Which recovery method should you use? To answer, drag the appropriate recovery methods to the correct location.
Each recovery method may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between
panes or scroll to view content. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/power-platform/admin/backup-restore-environments
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CEO Chuck Robbins, alongside the tech giant’s executive leadership team and incoming Channel Chief Rodney Clark, spoke on the mainstage and with CRN about AI, the Splunk acquisition, as well as Cisco’s culture at Cisco Partner Summit 2023.
Cisco Partner Summit 2023 highlighted new product innovations, partner programming updates, and a chance for channel partners to hear all about the company’s strategy and channel opportunities heading into 2024.
The San Jose, Calif.-based tech giant’s executive leadership took to the show to talk about major trends, such as AI, managed services and Cisco’s software focus. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins took the opportunity to talk to CRN about how the planned Splunk megadeal will bolster Cisco’s security prowess. Meanwhile, on the channel side, the company at Partner Summit introduced Rodney Clark, a well-known channel leader and former Microsoft channel chief as its new channel leader beginning in January. Clark, as well as former Channel Chief and current Cisco EMEA president Oliver Tuszik met up with CRN at the show to talk about Cisco’s channel-first culture and the company’s platform approach it’s adopting to networking, security, and observability.
Here’s what Cisco’s leadership team, including Chuck Robbins and Rodney Clark, had to say at Cisco Partner Summit 2023.
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins On Impending Splunk Acquisition
The [extended detection and response] XDR platform is going to continue to have more and more AI and machine learning, helping to correlate threats more quickly for customers. And we’ve talked about moving from detection and response to prediction and prevention. And if you think about Splunk’s platform, it’s just massive data platform that has ingested lots of insights from different threat sources, logs [and] events. And I think when you put that together with the XDR platform, which is all utilizing AI, we should be able to supply our customers the most rapid insights relative to what’s going on in their security and their infrastructure of anyone, and so I think that’s the big play there.
Rodney Clark, Incoming SVP, Partnerships and Small & Medium Business On Cisco’s channel culture
I’ve had fairly large channel responsibilities in my last two companies. And there’s a fairly unique difference between all of those experiences and this one at Cisco. And it’s hard to articulate in words, but I’m going to supply it a shot. The partners are genuinely excited to grow with Cisco. The partners are genuinely excited to leverage Cisco and our capabilities to help them build new capability. In the 48 conversations that I’ve had [at Partner Summit], I haven’t had one partner corner me and supply me the list of issues. I’ve had partners corner me and supply me the list of opportunities to grow, and where and how we can help them. That’s a pretty significant shift and that’s my big takeaway … just how genuinely excited this ecosystem is to partner with Cisco.
Liz Centoni, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Applications & Chief Strategy Officer On AI
We have an enormous amount of telemetry across email, endpoints, and the network. To really get the biggest benefit from AI, you need massive amounts of quality data. There are very few companies in this planet that have that. Now, AI is used pervasively across our portfolio. You’ve heard us talk about automation, baselining, anomaly detection, and noise reduction. We love Gen AI, it brings us huge opportunity, and we’re rapidly using it across our portfolio. You will hear us talk about this. We are powering AI workloads for our customers.
Oliver Tuszik, President, Cisco EMEA and Former Channel Chief On Cisco’s platform approach to networking, security, and full stack observability
That is a big change. These borders, these clear lines that we had. They no longer exist. Technology-wise, they might still exist in some areas, but take networking, security, that’s where the power of both worlds come together. And customers don’t want to deal with the interface. They want us our partners in this case to deliver this and that’s the big opportunity. We see network, security [and] managed services growing very fast.
Jeff Sharritts, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer and Partner Officer On Cisco Being The ‘Most Relevant Partner’
We want to be your most relevant partner that you have when you’re working with your customers. And we’re committed to ensuring that our partnership is mutually beneficial … I think from just a relevance perspective … I’m having conversations with CIOs and CTOs every day and we’re talking about areas of focus [AI and security] and how those syllabus are key to their business. And it doesn’t matter if it’s governments, enterprise, commercial, it doesn’t matter the segment of the market. And I think as we continue to evolve our programs … and making sure that they’re aligned to those things, and things our customers care about, and [we] demonstrate how critical the service capabilities, whether it be what we’re doing the maintenance services, what we’re doing in the public cloud marketplace, and co-selling or what we’re doing in professional services, all kind of tied closely and thus delivering value to our customers around those key areas. That’s the relevance I’m talking about. It’s all about the customer.
The Splunk logo is displayed on a phone screen on top of a laptop keyboard in this photo taken in Krakow, Poland, on Oct. 30, 2021.
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Cybersecurity firm Splunk, set to be Cisco's largest-ever acquisition, announced Wednesday it would lay off approximately 7% of its global workforce, months ahead of the deal close.
Splunk had nearly 8,000 employees as of January, according to its regulatory filings, meaning that around 500 employees will likely lose their jobs. The company laid off about 300 employees earlier this year.
Splunk CEO Gary Steele said the firings "are not a result of our agreement with Cisco" in a letter to employees that was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Most of the laid-off employees are located in the U.S., according to a concurrent filing with the SEC, and will receive unspecified severance and health-care packages. "Within the next 24 hours, each ELT member will communicate with their organization to summarize any changes to their teams," Steele wrote.
Splunk will incur about $42 million in restructuring costs, with most occurring before the end of April 2024. The company declined to comment on which teams would be affected or the timing of the layoffs shortly after the acquisition announcement, and referred CNBC back to its SEC filing.
In September, Cisco announced it would acquire Splunk in an all-cash deal valued at $28 billion. The companies said the deal was expected to close by the third quarter of 2024.
Shortly after the announcement, Steele and Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins discussed the deal on a call with analysts. "Together, we will become one of the largest software companies globally," Robbins told analysts.
Layoffs have struck tech companies large and small over the past year. Companies such as Google and Microsoft have cut thousands of employees, while many venture-backed companies have become so-called "zombie startups."
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The layoffs are happening in the wake of a market retraction, Splunk CEO Gary Steele said.
Network management and visualization vendor Splunk, which is set to be acquired by Cisco in a $28 billion deal, will cut about 560 jobs in a global restructuring, the company announced Wednesday in an SEC filing.
Splunk president and CEO Gary Steele said in the filing that employees in the Americas set to lose their jobs will be notified throughout today, and that the company plans to offer severance packages to laid-off employees, as well as healthcare coverage and job placement assistance for an undisclosed length of time.
The announcement comes after Splunk announced a first wave of 325 job cuts in February.
“The overall market has retracted and we expect the macro environment will continue to be unpredictable for the foreseeable future,” Steele’s message to employees said.
The cuts amount to 7% of Splunk’s global workforce, according to Steele’s filing, and are unrelated to the company’s pending acquisition by networking giant Cisco, which was initially announced in September of this year. (Splunk employed roughly 8,000 people globally as of early 2023, according to Macrotrends, which represents an increase of more than 14% from its 2022 totals.)
“The changes we are announcing are not a result of our agreement with Cisco; they are the continuation of the important initiatives we’ve undertaken across Splunk for more than a year to align our resources and operating structure to deliver ongoing and incremental value for our customers,” Steele said.
Though technology companies announced massive layoffs last year, 2023 has been much worse. Tech suppliers went on a hiring binge during the pandemic when lockdowns sparked a tech buying spree to support remote work, only to face revenue declines as COVID cases subsided.
Meanwhile Splunk’s $28 billion price tag for the Cisco acquisiton reflects the value placed on the company’s observability products, which are central for the type of network traffic monitoring required for the modern threat environment. Those capabilities will complement Cisco’s already extensive network security portfolio, and integrate with the larger company’s existing XDR and Security Cloud platforms.
Cisco said that, when both companies’ products are combined, it will be able to offer what it called “full stack observability,” providing end-to-end visibility into network traffic moving on a user’s systems.
That’s partially due to complementary but not overlapping nature of the two companies’ offerings, Cisco chair and CEO Chuck Robbins told Network World in September.
“I don’t think we have significant overlap,” he said. “But I think we have if you think about the data platform and the observability progress that [Splunk] has made, and you couple that with our application visibility with ThousandEyes we think we can actually extend well.”
Cisco’s $28 billion offer for enterprise cloud protection company Splunk is the biggest enterprise software deal so far in 2023, while last year’s biggest, Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware, is creeping closer to securing regulatory approval.
There was a sharp decline in software merger and acquisition activity in the second quarter of 2023, after limited signs of a recovery in the first quarter. Deal values for Q2 were down 85% year-on-year, compared to a 52% drop in Q1. Deal numbers also declined in Q2, after a small rise in Q1, according to risk and financial advisor Kroll.
One reason deals are getting smaller is that buyers are less willing to bet on future growth, and so ratios of enterprise value to revenue are getting smaller. Kroll noted that the ratio for ERP and supply chain management software vendors dropped from 11.0 in December 2021 to a low of 7.1 in December 2022, recovering slightly to 7.4 in June 2023. Over the same period the EV-to-revenue ratio for HCM software vendors dropped from 11.3 to 6.5 and for financial and accounting software vendors from 12.0 to 6.3. Vertical software vendors, already valued less highly, saw their EV-to-revenue ratio decline from 4.4 to 2.7 over the same period.
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors have also seen their valuations crash. After a euphoric period early in the COVID-19 pandemic, when the median EV-to-revenue ratio for SaaS companies topped 15, it had dropped below 10 by December 2021 and was as low as 5.9 in June 2023.
Despite the broader slump in valuations, there have still been a handful of billion-dollar-plus enterprise technology M&A deals thus far in 2023, including the acquisitions of Splunk, Qualtrics, Apptio, MosaicML, and Software AG.
For CIOs, these deals can disrupt strategic rollouts, spell a need to pivot to a new solution, signal sunsetting of essential technology, provide new opportunities to leverage newly synergized systems, and be a bellwether of further shifts to come in the IT landscape. Keeping on top of activity in this area can help your company make the most of emerging opportunities and steer clear of issues that often arise when vendors combine.
Here CIO.com rounds up of some of the most significant tech M&As of 2023 to date that could impact IT.
October 2023
Atlassian pays almost $1B for Loom
Atlassian, the developer of work management tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Trello, has agreed to acquire video messaging platform Loom for $975 million in stock and cash. It’s betting big that workers will prefer to send one another asynchronous video messages rather than text.
AMD plans to acquire AI software company Nod.ai
Chipmaker AMD is taking a leaf out of rival Nvidia’s playbook with a plan to buy AI software developer Nod.ai for an undisclosed sum. Nvidia has turned itself into a trillion-dollar company by building a full stack of generative AI models, tools to create them, and hardware to run them. In contrast to Nvidia’s proprietary software approach, AMD is pinning its hopes on an open-source strategy to drive demand for its hardware.
September 2023
Cisco to pay $28B for Splunk
Enterprise and cloud protection company Splunk could be part of Cisco a year from now, following a $28 billion bid from the networking equipment vendor. CEO Chuck Robbins sees the acquisition as a way for Cisco to expand its existing security products into a full-stack observability platform. He expects to close the deal by October 2024.
SAP adds LeanIX to its software portfolio
SAP is adding enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX to its software stable. SAP is hoping that LeanIX’s AI-powered tool can help customers move off its legacy ERP system and onto S/4HANA in the cloud. exact research by LeanIX showed that only 12% of SAP customers have completed their move to the cloud, eight years after S/4HANA was released and just four years before SAP ends mainstream support for its predecessor, ECC6.
Akeneo buys Unifai to clean up product catalogs
Product information management (PIM) specialist Akeneo has acquired Unifai, which uses AI for data collection, cleansing, and categorization. Akeneo plans to roll Unifai’s tools into its Product Cloud offering, where it will help with supplier data onboarding and pricing integration.
Rocket Software integrates tcVision developer BOS
Rocket Software, the company that lost out in July’s bidding war for Software AG, has landed on another acquisition target. On Sept. 7, it bought BOS, a German developer of data integration tools, including tcVision, which has been renamed Rocket Data Replicate and Sync. The deal will help Rocket round out its portfolio of mainframe modernization tools.
August 2023
IFS buys Falkonry to boost its ERP asset management services
IFS has agreed to acquire Falkonry, developer of an AI-based time-series data analytics tool. IFS plans to incorporate it into its ERP platform to boost its enterprise asset management (EAM) services capabilities.
Broadcom closes in on VMware acquisition
Broadcom secured approval for its $61 billion acquisition of VMware from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority on Aug. 21, five weeks after gaining similar approval from the European Commission, the EU’s antitrust regulator. However, the company still needs the go-ahead from Chinese regulators for the bid, which it launched way back in May 2022. Broadcom representatives are still confident the deal will close by the end of the company’s fiscal year on Oct. 30, 2023.
Adobe-Figma deal runs into regulatory trouble
Adobe’s plan to buy one of the largest rivals to its online design tool Creative Cloud is having less luck with competition regulators. On Aug. 7 the European Commission called in Adobe’s September 2022 agreement to buy Figma for $20 billion for a full investigation, while the UK Competition and Markets Authority said in late June that it would oppose the deal unless Adobe made undertakings to avoid the deal resulting in a substantial lessening of competition. The US Department of Justice is also said to be considering an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal. Figma is more often seen in the art department than the IT department, but with Adobe also a big player in customer data platforms, CIOs will be wary of the company getting an even bigger hold on their cloud software spend.
ServiceNow partners in Scandinavia and Germany merge
The Cloud People (TCP), a ServiceNow partner based in Norway, has acquired its German counterpart Nuvolax. The deal nets TCP a delivery center in Brazil, giving it 24-hour service coverage and opening up access to the US market, where it has growth ambitions.
July 2023
Teradata acquires Stemma to enhance analytics
Teradata has bought Stemma, the three-year-old developer of an AI-based data exploration tool, to accelerate its Vantage self-service analytics platform.
ServiceNow agrees to buy retail data platform G2K
ServiceNow is Studying to sprinkle some more AI magic on its automation of workflows in the retail industry. It has agreed to buy G2K, the developer of the Parsifal data platform, which the company says can analyze the movement of customers and products around stores.
Silver Lake buys majority stake in Software AG
Software AG, the German maker of tools for managing IoT data, APIs, and legacy mainframe apps, looks set to become part of Silver Lake, which also owns stakes in Airtable, Celonis, Qualtrics and Splunk. The investment fund secured a 63% stake in the company, valuing it at $2.4 billion, after a bidding war that pitted it against mainframe modernization firm Rocket Software. Prior to the deal, Software AG’s largest shareholder was a foundation, SAGST, created by one of its founders: SAGST’s 30% holding had for years protected the company from takeovers, but in April the foundation agreed to sell most of its stake to Silver Lake. Sanjay Brahmawar, CEO of Software AG since August 2018, said the company will benefit from the stability and certainty provided by a single major shareholder.
June 2023
IBM offers $4.6 billion for Apptio
IBM has agreed to buy cloud cost control specialist Apptio from private equity firm Vista, which has owned it since 2018. IBM plans to roll Apptio’s offering into its IT automation portfolio — AIOps, Instana and Turbonomics, — to help enterprises optimize both application cost and application performance from a single control center. The acquisition will also supply IBM access to anonymized data on $450 billion of IT spending that it can use to train AI tools for further optimization.
FTC case against Microsoft’s $68.7 billion bid for Activision Blizzard reaches court
The US Federal Trade Commission has aired its concerns about Microsoft’s plans to acquire games developer Activision Blizzard in a US federal court, six months after it sought an injunction to stop the deal and 18 months after the companies announced it. Microsoft’s bid, a whopping $68.7 billion, dwarfs even the $19.7 billion it paid for Nuance Communications in 2021 or the $26.2 billion it paid for LinkedIn in 2018.
Activision Blizzard’s apps are not typically authorized on enterprise networks, but when the deal was first announced, it seemed there was a chance its technology for creating and animating virtual worlds could make it into the workplace. Back then, Microsoft said the acquisition would supply it the building blocks for the metaverse. However, since then Microsoft has laid off 100 staff in its industrial metaverse unit, essentially closing it down.
While regulators in the European Union and South Africa have now approved the deal, the FTC and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority are still against it.
Databricks buys MosaicML for $1.3 billion
Generative AI is a hot commodity these days, and Databricks for one can’t get enough of it. In addition to developing its own large language model (LLM) based on open data, Dolly, it has now acquired MosaicML, the creator of two open source models, MPT-7B and MPT-30B. With the acquisition, Databricks hopes to make it easier for enterprises to build large language models based on their own data.
Silver Lake buys Qualtrics for $12.5 billion
Qualtrics has changed hands again. SAP acquired it for $8 billion in 2018, but the graft didn’t take, and SAP soon sold a minority stake. Now Silver Lake and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have snapped up the whole company. The deal closed June 28. SAP will remain a go-to-market partner of Qualtrics and service their joint customers.
Data center operator nLighten has bought Euclyde, owner of six data centers in neighboring France. One of nLighten’s goals with the acquisition is to reduce its carbon footprint: in France 70% of electricity comes from nuclear power stations, while in nLighten’s home country, Germany, around one-third of it comes from coal, which has the highest carbon intensity of all electricity sources.
HCM vendor UKG buys payroll provider Immedis
UKG’s cloud-based HCM software already delivers a wide range of functions to some enterprise HR departments. Now it is now adding to those capabilities with the acquisition of Immedis, which helps enterprises and mid-size companies operating in more than one country to manage payroll across borders. UKG plans to integrate the new functionality into its software suite as UKG One View later this year.
IBM buys French cloud services firm Agyla
Looking to Strengthen its offering for French clients, IBM has agreed to buy Agyla, a provider cloud platform engineering services. It plans to incorporate Agyla into its IBM Consulting division.
May 2023
Survey company Momentive says yes to STG deal
Symphony Technology Group has closed its acquisition of Momentive (formerly SurveyMonkey) for $1.5 billion. STG’s portfolio also includes ERP vendor CAI Software and a stake in cybersecurity firm RSA.
Snowflake adds Neeva’s generative AI to its data warehouse platform
Snowflake has acquired Neeva, a small startup that used generative AI to Strengthen the search experience. The deal came just days after Neeva closed its subscription-based, ad-free search engine. Building a search experience people were willing to pay for, while hard, turned out to be the easy part, according to a farewell blog post from Neeva’s founders: “Convincing users to pay for a better experience was actually a less difficult problem compared to getting them to try a new search engine in the first place.” Now it’s up to Snowflake to convince its customers to change.
IBM to automate cloud data protection with Polar Security acquisition
Data security posture management specialist Polar Security will soon be part of IBM, which plans to integrate the Israeli company into its Guardium range of data security products. There, it will help IBM customers pinpoint security risks and compliance violations. IBM didn’t say how much it had paid for the company, but Israeli news site Tech12 put the price at $60 million.
Databricks buys Okera to keep tabs on LLMs
Databricks has been encouraging enterprises to experiment with large language models, offering one of its own, Dolly, as open source. Now it’s offering its customers a way to keep such models under control with the acquisition of LLM governance specialist Okera.
April 2023
Ciphr adds diversity with Marshall acquisition
Marshall E-learning, a provider of diversity and inclusion training, is now part of Ciphr, a UK-based HR SaaS platform. Ciphr expects the deal will enable it to expand its existing online learning offering.
March 2023
Vista buys Equity Partners buys insurance software firm Duck CreekQuantive buys OKR consulting firm
Following its acquisition of consulting firm AuxinOKR, strategy execution platform Quantive is rolling out a new consulting division to support enterprises adopting its tools for measuring business results.
Quantexa is loving the Aylien
Quantexa has acquired Aylien, a Dublin-based natural language processing firm specializing in risk management and market insight. It will use Aylien’s NLP skills to enhance its AI-based decision intelligence tools for the finance industry.
Capita lays off employment screening business
Matrix SCM, a British IT staffing agency, has acquired Security Watchdog, a provider of employment screening services, from Capita, the giant IT services business. It’s part of a broader sell-off for Capita, which also let go of three other human resources companies in March: Capita Resourcing, HR Solutions, and ThirtyThree. Capita is selling non-core businesses to reduce its debts and refocusing on public sector and customer experience work.
Key secures Rocket
Mainframe software developer Rocket Software has bought mainframe security specialist Key Resources. The deal will enable Rocket to offer additional security-related services to the mainframe users it works with.
February 2023
Thomas Bravo manages $8B spend on Coupa Software
Coupa Software, a provider of business spend management tools, has been acquired by investment firm Thomas Bravo in an $8 billion deal. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority has taken a minority stake. Thomas Bravo also owns business payments company BottomLine, open finance platform Solifi, data management tool Talend and a raft of security and identity management software companies.
Arm sells software arm
Processor designer Arm has sold Forge, its suite of software development tools for high-performance computing, to Linaro, which develops and supports a range of other Arm-specific software for enterprises. Arm originally acquired Forge in 2016 to support its entry into the HPC market.
Accenture buys Morphus, adds new South-American cybersecurity center
With its acquisition of Brazilian cybersecurity and threat intelligence provider Morphus, Accenture has added a new site from which to supervise its offering of managed security services and advanced analytics. The cyber fusion center in Fortaleza, Brazil, was previously Morphus Labs.
January 2023
OpenText buys Micro Focus for $5.8 billion
OpenText has closed its acquisition of Micro Focus, a vendor of mainframe modernization and application portfolio management tools. OpenText’s first move on completing the deal was to begin laying off staff. It announced an 8% reduction in workforce to realize $400 million in annual cost savings to help finance the $5.8 million purchase, which it first announced in August 2022.
Dell buys Cloudify
After selling off its stake in VMware, Dell is moving back into the cloud software business with the acquisition of Cloudify. The Israeli startup has developed a cloud orchestration platform to help devops teams automate provisioning.
McKinsey buys machine MLops platform Iguazio
McKinsey is adding to its stable of machine learning experts with the acquisition of software developer Iguazio. In time, it plans to integrate it into QuantumBlack, a McKinsey business unit that has specialized in AI for the last decade. Iguazio is the developer of a commercial MLops platform and two open-source tools: MLRun, for ML pipeline orchestration, and Nuclio, which offers real-time serverless functions for automating application deployment.
HPE buys Pachyderm to automate ML development
Pachyderm, a developer of data pipeline automation tools used in training machine learning models, is now part of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. The company’s software will become part of the HPE Machine Learning Development Environment.
Quantum fusion: IonQ ties up with Entangled Networks
With each of the handful of companies developing quantum computers betting on a different architecture, a cross-platform quantum computing operating system is still a way off. That’s why quantum hardware companies like IonQ are developing their own software tools too. To speed up the process, IonQ has acquired Entangled Networks, a developer of software optimization tools for quantum computers, and is building a new Canadian subsidiary around the software team.
Two ServiceNow partners tie the knot
ServiceNow solutions provider Thirdera has acquired another ServiceNow partner, SilverStorm Solutions, to expand its reach in Europe. Thirdera also operates in South America. Combined, the two ServiceNow Elite-level partners have over 900 employees.
December 2022
IBM buys Octo Consulting Group
Appropriately enough for its eighth deal of 2022, IBM’s latest acquisition is called Octo Consulting Group. Not to be confused with Octo Technology, a French consulting company bought by Accenture in 2017, IBM’s Octo is a US company specializing in government IT modernization projects that was until recently owned by Arlington Capital Partners. Its 1,500 staff will join IBM Consulting.
Intercontinental Exchange’s bid for Black Knight in doubt
Another of the biggest software deals of 2022 is also in doubt. In May, Intercontinental Exchange, owner of the New York Stock Exchange and a host of mortgage technology companies, bid $13.1 billion for Black Knight, a mortgage software company.
In late December, though, the Financial Services Committee of the US House of Representatives wrote to the US Federal Trade Commission to express its concern that the deal could result in too much concentration in the mortgage origination market.
Big though the deal is, it’ll have few consequences for CIOs outside the mortgage services industry.
Cognizant buys AustinCSI and assets of OneSource Virtual
IT services giant Cognizant has added 175 digital transformation consultants in Texas with the acquisition of AustinCSI, a company specializing in the design of cloud and automation systems. It has also acquired 400 specialists from another Texas company, Workday partner OneSource Virtual, and bought Houston-based SAP services company Utegration, bringing it close to 350,000 employees worldwide.
LumApps buys chatbot maker Vizir to Strengthen employee experience
French employee experience platform LumApps has snapped up Vizir, developer of a no code chatbot creation platform, to help enterprises deliver more interactive services to employees. Companies building their own tools for natural language understanding like this will face strong headwinds from the likes of ChatGPT, an interactive version of the giant AI language model GPT that can be trained for use in multiple domains.
November 2022
VMware shareholders approve acquisition by Broadcom
After Broadcom made its offer in May, it’s a step closer to closing the $61 billion deal to buy VMware, after that company’s shareholders voted to accept the offer. VMware is looking to expand its virtualization technologies into the 5G edge computing market, where Broadcom’s radio and networking chip business could supply it a foothold.
RegScale, GovReady join forces to implement OSCAL governance formats
RegScale, a developer of governance, risk, and compliance software, has acquired compliance-as-code platform GovReady. The two companies are early adopters of NIST’s Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL), used for representing control catalogs and system security plans in machine-readable format.
SAP service providers join forces
Codestone Group is still expanding. After its May acquisition of Clarivos, the company has added data analytics and BI specialist DSCallards to its collection. The purchase will allow it to expand its services capabilities around SAP and Microsoft ERP tools.
Anonos buys Statice to boost data protection
Anonos, a developer of software for pseudonymizing personal data in use, has acquired Statice, creator of a tool for generating synthetic data. With European regulators cranking up fines for breaches of GDPR, tools that allow enterprises to move data between jurisdictions while maintaining protection will only grow in importance.
For last year’s mergers and buyouts, see The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of 2022.
Mindware, a leading value-added distributor (VAD), has partnered with Splunk, a cybersecurity and observability leader, to deliver cutting-edge technology solutions across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.
Mindware will offer a comprehensive range of Splunk products and services, including the Splunk Enterprise Platform, Splunk Cloud Platform, and Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI). Mindware's extensive network and deep market expertise will help expand Splunk's footprint and empower organisations to build a safer and more resilient digital world.
Nicholas Argyrides, Vice President - Gulf at Mindware, comments: “The decision to enter into this partnership is driven by the shared vision of both Mindware and Splunk to empower organisations with advanced data analytics capabilities. Mindware's strong presence and trusted relationships in the region complement Splunk's industry-leading technology. We believe that the vendor’s comprehensive platform, coupled with our deep market knowledge and commitment to customer success, will provide regional organisations with the tools needed to keep digital systems secure and reliable.”
Market expansion
“The partnership benefits both Splunk and Mindware in terms of market expansion, portfolio enhancement, and the ability to address the evolving needs of businesses effectively. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement that leverages each company's strengths and resources,” he continues.
Mindware's extensive network of partners, resellers, and system integrators will benefit from this partnership by gaining access to Splunk's industry-leading solutions as well as specialised training and support. These advantages will enhance their ability to deliver data-driven solutions to their customers, stay competitive, and enhance their overall business performance.
The immense potential of Splunk in the region is due to the increasing importance of observability and cybersecurity in today’s age of digital transformation. The company’s solutions, including comprehensive data analysis, real-time monitoring, cross-platform compatibility, security and compliance, machine learning and AI integration, align perfectly with the region's growing need for actionable insights and threat detection capabilities.
“With a commitment to excellence, Mindware is well-positioned to deliver unparalleled support and services for Splunk's innovative solutions, empowering organisations to accelerate digital transformation. Our shared goal is to support the growth and success of businesses in the Middle East, and we look forward to a fruitful collaboration," concludes Ahmed El Saadi, AVP Middle East at Splunk.--TradeArabia News Service
Cisco Partner Summit 2023
Will TownsendI have attended the Cisco Partner Summit for the past several years. Cisco, like many of its larger competitors such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and Dell Technologies, leverages the IT distribution channel for scale and efficiency in sales operations. However, Cisco is one of the few companies to hold an event exclusively focusing on its channel partner community. I can appreciate this effort because I spent many years as a channel sales and marketing professional.
When you’re in channel roles like that, one of the biggest challenges is vying for partner attention and convincing these organizations to lead with your company’s products and services as they talk with their customers. From my perspective, the Cisco Partner Summit 2023 performed well to that end. This year, the event was held in Miami Beach, Florida—a picturesque area in Miami dotted with Art Deco architecture and beautiful white sand beaches. Thanks to my advisory relationship with Cisco, I was allowed to spend time with Cisco executives and many of the company’s partners; in this post, I want to share my insights on what I found most compelling at the event. Note that although Cisco is my client at Moor Insights & Strategy, no one at Cisco had input into the analysis in this article.
Channel Leadership Transition And Partner Compensation Consolidation
Until recently, Oliver Tuszik had led Cisco's global partner sales organization for five years. Tuszik has an infectious personality and brings tremendous energy to the company's leadership ranks. I have had the pleasure of getting to know him personally, and it was no surprise that after another executive left the company, Tuszik was asked to lead Cisco’s EMEA business unit, especially given that he grew up in Germany and has spent a significant portion of his career in Europe.
Tuszik left big shoes to fill, and Cisco used its partner summit to announce the appointment of channel veteran Rodney Clark as his successor in the partner leadership role. Most recently, Clark served as chief commercial officer at Johnson Controls, but before that stint he spent 24 years at Microsoft, where he was responsible for channel sales and operations. Clark seems like a good fit at Cisco, especially as it continues to transform into a software company and offer more of its networking and security infrastructure solutions on a subscription basis. During his tenure at Microsoft, Cark oversaw a critical transition to perpetual licensing, an experience that should provide a strong foundation for helping Cisco move toward realizing recurring revenue and renewal.
In addition to Cisco's channel leadership transition, the company announced a future consolidation of its partner compensation programs. Historically, Cisco has rewarded its partners through a three-tiered program. Although well-intended, this has created complexity from the perspective of tracking, proof of performance and redemption. By merging three programs into one over the next several quarters—especially with partner input—Cisco could simplify things significantly and eliminate any remaining channel sales friction.
New Security Solutions
Any event like this would be incomplete without product and solution announcements, and Cisco delivered on this front, too. First, Jeetu Patel, who leads the company's collaboration and security business, spoke about increasing the company’s investment in security. Unsurprisingly, given the current threat landscape, Cisco wants to vie for more enterprise security share-of-wallet. The company has formidable competitors in Palo Alto Networks and Microsoft, and one could argue that Cisco is behind both of those companies in the marketplace. However, with the rise of generative AI and an opportunity to consolidate security point solutions to counteract tool sprawl, Cisco is on the right track, given its exact focus on the subject.
At the partner summit, the company announced new security suites that address three critical use cases—user, cloud and breach protection. If Cisco can execute on this plan, it should provide the proper levels of efficacy, user experience and ROI across multi-cloud, private infrastructure and security point solutions for security operations stakeholders.
Expanding Observability and Sustainability
Cisco also continues to lean into observability; at the event, it announced seven new partner modules that aim to help its channel sellers build business practices that leverage observable telemetry for customers. The new modules focus on five areas—business insights, SAP visibility, networking, machine learning operations and service level objectives and sustainability. From my perspective, observability will unlock a host of new use cases; this was the subject of an article I wrote in September about Cisco’s intent to acquire Splunk.
While the benefits of observability for improving security and network resiliency are apparent, the benefits for raising sustainability might not be. Sustainability KPIs in general could stand improvement, given they are often difficult to quantify and measure. Cisco is addressing this challenge through two new capabilities: Climatiq, which facilitates carbon emission tracking, and Cisco CX Sustainability Insights, which provides a consolidated view that enables near real-time visualization, measurement, estimation and reporting of sustainability indicators. Both of these can be powerful, given that they equip organizations to optimize workload operations while doing the same for datacenter energy consumption.
To enable deeper partner participation with Cisco customers who are embarking on a sustainability journey, the company is also launching a Sustainability Estimator in late November. The tool promises to provide Cisco sellers with insights into energy savings, emissions and cost reductions and environmental impact that can be realized through modernizing IT infrastructure. This capability is a win-win, given that it provides a tool to unlock incremental sales opportunities for Cisco and its channel partners while providing Cisco customers with several options that measurably reduce their carbon footprints.
Cisco Partner Highlights
During the event, I spent time with Logicalis, a Cisco partner focused on building a strong IT practice that leverages Cisco’s sustainability offerings mentioned above. Based on its efforts, Logicalis received the inaugural Sustainability Partner of the Year award at this year’s event. From what I’ve seen, Logicalis is differentiating itself by creating incremental selling opportunities for Cisco solutions, but more than that, it is taking "tech for good" to new levels by genuinely helping its customers reduce carbon emissions globally.
I also spent time with NTT at the Cisco Partner Summit. Cisco and NTT can trace their relationship back 30 years, which is astounding in the tech world. In speaking with NTT leadership, I learned that the company was instrumental in codeveloping Cisco’s CX programmatic approach to partner sales enablement. This alliance represents a significant proof point for the effectiveness of partnerships in tech sales. Customers benefit by getting the right solutions; the two companies point to the iconic brands—including Heineken, Royal Caribbean and many others—that they have helped accelerate their digital transformation journeys.
Wrapping Up
The Cisco Partner Summit is one of the events that I look forward to attending every year. It celebrates the innovation and customer success that can be created when top-class IT infrastructure from a company of Cisco’s stature is married with the expert solution integration and deployment of diligent channel partners. I left this year’s event struck by how profound many of the new solutions could be for leveling the cybersecurity playing field while also reducing global carbon emissions.
I've written before about Cisco's place in the observability market and what it means. And I really like what the company is doing with sustainability, which seems to go beyond environmental hype to deliver real improvements. At the end of the day, tech can be used for good, and what Cisco is doing in collaboration with its international partner community is a model that could and should be replicated industrywide.
DUBAI, UAE: – Mindware, a leading value-added distributor (VAD) in the Middle East and Africa, has announced its new strategic partnership with Splunk Inc., the cybersecurity and observability leader This collaboration marks an exciting milestone for both companies and reinforces Mindware's commitment to delivering cutting-edge technology solutions to its customers across the MEA region.
Mindware will offer a comprehensive range of Splunk products and services, including the Splunk Enterprise Platform, Splunk Cloud Platform, and Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI). Mindware's extensive network and deep market expertise will help expand Splunk's footprint and empower organizations to build a safer and more resilient digital world.
Mr. Nicholas Argyrides, Vice President - Gulf at Mindware, comments: “The decision to enter into this strategic partnership is driven by the shared vision of both Mindware and Splunk to empower organizations with advanced data analytics capabilities. Mindware's strong presence and trusted relationships in the region complement Splunk's industry-leading technology. We believe that the vendor’s comprehensive platform, coupled with our deep market knowledge and commitment to customer success, will provide regional organizations with the tools needed to keep digital systems secure and reliable.”
“The partnership benefits both Splunk and Mindware in terms of market expansion, portfolio enhancement, and the ability to address the evolving needs of businesses effectively. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement that leverages each company's strengths and resources,” he continues.
Mindware's extensive network of partners, resellers, and system integrators will benefit from this partnership by gaining access to Splunk's industry-leading solutions as well as specialized training and support. These advantages will enhance their ability to deliver data-driven solutions to their customers, stay competitive, and enhance their overall business performance.
The immense potential of Splunk in the region is due to the increasing importance of observability and cybersecurity in today’s age of digital transformation. The company’s solutions, including comprehensive data analysis, real-time monitoring, cross-platform compatibility, security and compliance, machine learning and AI integration, align perfectly with the region's growing need for actionable insights and threat detection capabilities.
“With a commitment to excellence, Mindware is well-positioned to deliver unparalleled support and services for Splunk's innovative solutions, empowering organizations to accelerate digital transformation. Our shared goal is to support the growth and success of businesses in the Middle East, and we look forward to a fruitful collaboration," concludes Mr. Ahmed El Saadi, AVP Middle East at Splunk.
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About Mindware
Mindware, a leading IT distributor in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, takes pride in offering top-quality global brands to over 5,000 partners with legal entities in 13 countries. With a rich history dating back to 1991 and headquartered in Dubai, UAE, Mindware's unwavering commitment spans over three decades, empowering businesses with cutting-edge IT solutions and fostering digital transformation. Mindware's comprehensive offering encompasses a selection of leading brands in infrastructure, networking, security, and storage. As part of its Value-Added Distribution (VAD) methodology, Mindware goes the extra mile to provide supplementary value-added services to its reselling partners including pre-sales consultancy, implementation services, local technical support, marketing enablement tools, and multiple channel-enabling programs. Supported by strategically positioned logistic centres in key locations, Mindware ensures seamless distribution across all channels, efficiently catering to the needs of its esteemed partners and customers.
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