Splunk, which provides software for machine-generated big data analysis, has announced Splunk Enterprise 6.2, Splunk Mint, and Splunk Hunk 6.2. 'What we are doing with this release is fundamentally ...

Splunk stock leaped 14% after the company announced a $1 billion investment from Silver Lake. The cash infusion will be plowed back into the business and used to fund a $1 billion share buyback.

Splunk continues to enhance its flagship machine data search engine so it can be used by business analysts and managers, in addition to its typical audience of system and network administrators. The ...