February 20, 2019 at 12:58

Splunk leaves Russia (completely)

    Splunk leaves Russia

    Splunk company - leaves the Russian market and stops selling its software in the Russian Federation , and will also no longer renew current licenses for Russian partners and customers.

    Timeline of events:

    • 02/15/2019 Without any warnings, the resource is blocked (apparently by GEO IP) splunkbase.splunk.com (application and add-on store for Splunk). Everyone thinks it is ILV. The site can be opened via VPN / proxy / TOR / ... After some time, clients and partners find that when logging in to the site splunk.com , they’ll see you something like this (client’s country in the embargo list):

      Splunk embargo

      Notifications are sent from partners to partners that a request was sent to the vendor for this lock and an official response is expected.
    • 02/16/2019 The site appears VolgaBlob news about the embargo .
    • 02/18/2019 Sites stop blocking.
      To Russian customers and partners, numerous answers to Splunk about the situation come from Aamchoune Nordine (the official representative of Splunk responsible for business in Russia):
      Splunk has decided to stop all its activities in Russia, with immediate effect.
      This is a decision based on investment opportunity. We continually evaluate where Splunk is focusing its resources globally to drive the greatest return on investment for the business, and ensure the greatest success for our customers.

      Subject to any unforeseen restrictions, Splunk will continue to fulfil customer support obligations for products and services rendered through the life of the contract.

      Splunk will no longer be selling software and services, including expansions or renewals, to customers in Russia either directly or through partners. This extends to opportunities with technical partners, resellers, distributors and vendors.

      We are sorry for any inconvenience caused but this is an irrevocable management decision.
      The news on the VolgaBlob website is being updated.
    • 02/19/2019 Off. Splunk blog post on changing priorities in global strategy . This writes CNews . There is not a word on Splunk on this topic.
    • 02/20/2019 Partners received a notice of termination of the contract , which will not be renewed.

    From the official answer, only one thing is not clear: why did the company suddenly decide that she did not want to develop her business in Russia. Every year at the Splunk Discovery Day conference, more and more customers and partners gather, which can indicate a constant growth of the company's business in our country.

    It was thought that this could be due to the arrest of Michael Calvey (both events - blocking and arrest - date February 15). In the same news, they also recalled the January rumor, saying that Cisco can buy Splunk (of course, this is not accurate).

    Among customers using Splank (total of about 200 customers), there are:



    Discussions at Reddit:
    Splunk Inc Ending Sales & Support For Russian Entities
    Splunk ends business relationships with Russia
    Splunk will no longer sell software and services to customers in Russia
    Splunk pulls out of Russia with mysterious statement | ZDNet

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    PS I will add a thought from the commentary to the post :
    It would seem, who cares about this unfortunate Splunk?
    Then imagine what will happen if tomorrow another foreign (or even Russian) vendor does the same, the services of which you are using now;)
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