Recently Matt Asay wrote a thoughtful piece about how some technology companies are consumerizing the computing experience. In the case of Apple, Business Week writer Peter Burrows has also recently wrote about The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suite exploring how CIOs are testing the appetite for Macs in the enterprise. Michele Goins CIO […]

Without a doubt the past week has been the most amazing week in Splunk history. The crazy coast to coast multi-city launch left us all exhausted and electrified. A few of the things that stick in my mind…
First Splunk 3.2 including Splunk for Windows went live on our download page last Saturday and more […]

Recently, Johnvey Hwang wrote a post called Standing on Our Own Platform. He was the first one at Splunk to break the ice and use the “P” word. Now it’s out there. What do we see when we stand on our own platform? While only you and the future will tell us […]

I’m not sure if it’s the start of a new quarter, the full moon or my two seven year old boys that have me thinking about this, but we seem to be blowing a lot of things up lately. A few examples…
1. We blew up our product development process
2. We blew up lots of our […]

Last week Splunk sponsored ComputerWorld’s Infrastructure World conference along with HP and IBM. I needed to come up with a talk and I wanted to do something new.
I’ve been thinking about how to describe the challenges we have managing all this changing technology and innovation. Note this is seriously a work in progress. […]

Who am I to second guess it. Virtualization is hot. In the past week VMWare went public closing at the end of the first day with a $20B market cap and Citrix agreed to buy XenSource for $500M.
WOW! This kind of activity make the bubble days pale in comparison.
I […]

Yesterday I gave the keynote at the annual Deutsche Bank innovation awards ceremony in London. Once a year DB celebrates the innovators within the bank and awards prizes for the most entrepreneurial, cost reducing and revenue generating new inventions.
What a cool thing to do.
I have to admit speaking to a group like […]

What’s so great about agile software development? Sure engineers think its great. I think it helps them feel empowered. Product managers think its great too, but secretly I think they’re still trying to figure it out. Apparently Oracle thinks it’s great. The company just paid $495 million for Agile Software Corporation […]