On Thursday, Cisco Systems CSCO announced its plans to acquire Splunk SPLK for $28 billion ($157 in cash per share), a 31% premium to Splunk’s Sept. 20 closing price. Cisco aims to expand its ...

In the 18 months since Cisco Systems Inc. finalized its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk Inc., the combined firms have focused on weaving Splunk’s machine data analytics technology with Cisco’s ...