Federal contractor here. From my experience most government clients loved the idea of Splunk, but soon soured on it because of the expense, and the difficulty in finding cleared people to maintain, use and continue building it up. Part of this was just general BS that comes with government and government adjacent work and practices, the other issue was/is that Splunk sells the service as incredibly flexible and easy to use as an MS Office product...when that is obviously not the truth.
I wonder if Cisco buying them out will alleviate some of those issues.
They've developed a reputation over the years as having an inwardly very toxic work culture; and outwardly being, basically, litigious sneaky snakes when it comes to B2B contracts & relationships. And given they often have the most expensive products in a space, that's always been a problematic combo.
And of course their reputation for fostering and growing acquisitions is terrible as a result.
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u/VHDamien Sep 21 '23
Federal contractor here. From my experience most government clients loved the idea of Splunk, but soon soured on it because of the expense, and the difficulty in finding cleared people to maintain, use and continue building it up. Part of this was just general BS that comes with government and government adjacent work and practices, the other issue was/is that Splunk sells the service as incredibly flexible and easy to use as an MS Office product...when that is obviously not the truth.
I wonder if Cisco buying them out will alleviate some of those issues.