The IBM intends to $4 billion acquisition of large data Splunk company

Since last April for ipos since, Splunk share price accumulated or has reached 90%. According to Friday's closing price calculation, Splunk market value has reached 3.18 billion us dollars. The investment company Drexel Hamilton LLC analyst James Gilman Norris (James Gilman) said that the price of the acquisition of Splunk could reach $4 billion. The analysts think, whether it's the world's biggest computer service provider IBM, or the largest database software provider oracle, would consider purchase Splunk to expand their own enterprise customer service.

Cowen & Co., analyst Peter goodman and (Peter Goldmacher) when talking about Splunk may be company acquisitions, said, "I heard that IBM will purchase the company."

IBM spokesman James Skye rice (James Sciales) that the company will not market speculation or guess any comment on that. Oracle spokesman and Splunk are not buy this report can.

Splunk by Eric Swan (Erik Swan), Bob darth (Rob Das) and Michael Andrew Baum (Michael Baum) joint was founded in 2004. The company is also the first listing of the so-called "big data" company. Splunk provides the software to help enterprise monitoring and analysis of information, so as to improve the service, reducing operating costs, and reduce the safety risk. Splunk donors included the risk investment company August Capital, JK&B Capital, Ignition and Sevin Rosen Funds.

IBM has been to expand its business data analysis in the field of effort, to improve performance and safety performance. To 2015 years ago, IBM business plan through the analysis for 16 billion dollars a year in revenue.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison (Larry Ellison) is increasing investment, increase customer can lease and in the network operation of the cloud software. Last December, oracle announced $871 million acquisition Eloqua, further in cloud computing area expansion, increase and the competition between Salesforce.com and SAP.

IBM stock Friday in nyse conventional trading rose $1.57, or 0.81%, to $194.45 a barrel. The past 52 weeks, IBM minimum stock price is $177.35, the highest share price of $211.79. According to Friday's closing price calculation, the market value of the IBM reached $219.72 billion.