Splunk nabs on-call management startup VictorOps for $120M

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In a DevOps world, the operations part of the equation needs to be on call to deal with issues as they come up 24/7
We used to use pagers
management tool that has been helping customers deal with oodles of information being generated from back-end systems for many years
With VictorOps, the company gets a system to alert the operations team when something from that muddle of data actually requires their
attention.Splunk has been making moves in recent years to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to help make sense of the data
and provide a level of automation required when the sheer volume of data makes it next to impossible for humans to keep up
Vernon wrote.It should come as no surprise that the two companies have been working together even before the acquisition
viewpoint that Modern Incident Management is in a period of strategic change where data is king, and insights from that data are key to
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subject to customary closing conditions, according to a statement from Splunk.