Splunk leaves Russia (completely)

Splunk - leaves the Russian market and stops selling its software on the territory of the Russian Federation , and will no longer renew current licenses for Russian partners and customers.

Chronology of events:

• 02/15/2019 Without any warnings, the resource is blocked (apparently by GEO IP) splunkbase.splunk.com (application store and addons for Splunk). Everyone thinks it's an ILV. The site can be opened via VPN / proxy / TOR / ... After some time, customers and partners discover that when logging in to splunk.com, under your account, you will be approached with something like this (client's country in the embargo list):
  
  
  
  From partners, customers receive notifications that a request has been sent to the vendor regarding this blocking and an official response is expected.
  
• 02/16/2019 News about the embargo appears on the VolgaBlob website.
  
• 02/18/2019 Sites stop blocking.
  Russian customers and partners to numerous requests in Splunk about the current situation receive a response from Aamchoune Nordine (Splunk official in charge of business in Russia):
  

  Splunk has decided to stop.
  This is a decision based investment opportunity. We’re continually evaluating where we want to drive our customers.
  
  Splunk will continue to meet your contractual requirements.
  
  Splunk will not be any costly software or services, including expansions or renewals, or customers. Technical partners, resellers, distributors and vendors.
  
  This is an irrevocable management decision.

  News on the VolgaBlob website is updated.
  
• 02/19/2019 In off. Splunk blog post appears on the change of priorities in the global strategy . This writes CNews . There is not a word on Splunk's Twitter account .
  
• 02/20/2019 Partners received a notice of termination of the contract , which will no longer be renewed.
  

Only one thing is not clear from the official answer: why did the company suddenly decide that it did not want to develop its business in Russia? Every year, more and more customers and partners gather at the Splunk Discovery Day conference, which may indicate a continuous growth of the company's business in our country.

It was thought that this could be related to the arrest of Michael Calvey (both events - blocking and arrest - are dated February 15). In the same news, they still recalled the January rumor, saying that Cisco could buy Splunk (of course, this is not certain).

Among customers using Splank (about 200 customers in total) are:

• "Kaspersky Lab"
• "El Dorado"
• "Lukoil"
• Rosneft
• Uralsib
• Tinkoff Bank
• Sberbank
• Yandex
• Megaphone
• Okko
• Yota
• Rostelecom
• Rosgosstrakh
• Mars IS
• Welfare Foundation

Reddit Discussions:
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The article used materials:

• News on Interfax.ru
• Splunk blog post
• News on the site VolgaBlob
• News on CNews
• News on the "Medusa" about the detention of Michael Calvi
• Presentations from the Splunk Discovery Day conference (2016) on the website rrc.ru
• Presentation of Witold Jarzabowski
• Post on investors.com

PS Add to the post a thought from the comment :
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, whose services / services you use now;)