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5 Things To Know About Silver Lake’s $1B Investment In Splunk
Rick Whiting
Splunk disclosed Tuesday that private equity investment company Silver Lake is making a $1 billion investment in the data management software developer. Here are five things to know about the deal.

Splunk Expands Its Cloud Security Offerings
In a major move to expand its cloud software portfolio, Splunk—on the same day of the announcement of the Silver Lake investment—said that its new Splunk Security Cloud service is generally available.
The new cloud offering is a data-centric security operations platform, which the company said “delivers enterprise-grade advanced security analytics, automated security operations and integrated threat intelligence.”