##splunk,
"#Solarwinds Acquires #Squadcast, Unifying #Observability & #IncidentResponse"

Not exactly a blockbuster. Useful for customers, and I get this is a tempting adjacency (ask me how I know 😂) but I don't see this hurting #PagerDuty, let alone #Cisco, #Splunk, or #ServiceNow.

investors.solarwinds...
SolarWinds - SolarWinds Acquires Squadcast, Unifying Observability and Incident Response
SolarWinds Empowers IT Teams With AI-Driven Hybrid Cloud Management Portfolio, Operational Resilience, Cost Efficiency, and Automation SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Squadcast, a customer-loved incident response solution company based in San Francisco. Squadcast, an advanced alternative to PagerDuty and OpsGenie, unites on-call alerting and incident response along with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) workflows under one hood to automate human tasks efficiently. Squadcast users report benefits like a 68% reduction in the average mean time to remediation (MTTR), and savings of 1,000 work hours and $500K in costs. Chosen by customers like Redis, Charter, and Mailbird, its products are guided by a customer-centricity that aligns well with the SolarWinds mission and commitment to the technology professional community. “With the industry battles to
investors.solarwinds.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Hey Software company PR peeps. You might want to at least register your handle on #Bluesky; ideally with your verified domain.

Today alone I have seen name-squatters for #ServiceNow, #SolarWinds, #Splunk, #Cisco, #Squadcast, and #Atlassian.

And anyone else who wants to protect their name/brand.
March 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"#Alphabet to buy #Wiz for $32bn in its biggest deal to boost #cloud #security"

Smart for #Google - #cybersecurity still #1 factor for #CIO & #CTO, esp. #enterprise. Takes fight to $AMZN $MSFT $CRWD $PANW but esp $CSCO (#Splunk, #Epsagon).

Just don't call it #DevSecOps!

www.reuters.com/tech...
Alphabet to buy Wiz for $32 billion in its biggest deal to boost cloud security
Alphabet said on Tuesday it would buy Wiz for about $32 billion in its biggest deal ever, as the Google parent doubles down on cybersecurity to sharpen its edge in the cloud-computing race against Amazon.com and Microsoft.
www.reuters.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM