When Splunk acquired security vendor Caspida a few months ago, some eyebrows were raised, while others saw it as a natural move. Long a vendor delivering a broad big data analytics platform, the Caspida acquisition was an admission of what many people already thought – that a huge proportion of the real-world adoption of analytics platforms is in the IT space, specifically security and threat intelligence. The Caspida acquisition was a good way for Splunk to go deep into this sector and follow a dual strategy: a broad platform for general use cases and distinct vertical for the early big data use cases.
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