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Question: Kasthuri Gopalan Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division - Analyst
: Congratulations on the quarter, Gary, nice to meet you. And I'm curious to get your perspective on when you look at Splunk as a business asset, I
know you've certainly talked about your ambition to get the company to $5 billion, maybe even $10 billion of revenue. What are the things that
excite you the most about Splunk, if you can just expand on that, that would be great.
And also, this is a very interesting time in the market. Everybody is worried about contraction in GDP, inflation, that sort of thing. What is your
overall sense as to how the Splunk portfolio could hold up in the event of a more challenging cost center, labor markets, inflation, rates, et cetera.
Sorry for the long-winded question, but curious to get your perspective.
Question: Chirag Haresh Ved - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division - Analyst
: This is Chirag Ved on for Kirk. Congratulations on a great quarter. Gary, maybe just one for you. Could you talk about the potential to get greater
scale and efficiency through partners and how you're continuing to engage with the ecosystem to help you scale?
Question: Steven Richard Koenig - SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., Research Division - Analyst
: Gary, congratulations on the new role.
Question: Steven Richard Koenig - SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., Research Division - Analyst
: I got 2 questions for you. So one is about competition with the XDR vendors. What's your view of the difference between XDR and SIEM other than
having an endpoint agent? And then I'll hit you with the next one after that.
Question: Steven Richard Koenig - SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., Research Division - Analyst
: Got it. That makes sense. And then my follow-up is really about the context here. You've been working in cyber for many years. And so I'm curious,
your view, I understand the product leverage you get from playing across IT ops, dev ops and SIEM. From a customer buying perspective, where
are the security purchases dependent on IT budgets? And then where are they separate? And is there some difference between enterprise and
Question: Matthew George Hedberg - RBC Capital Markets, Research Division - Analyst
: Great. Gary, congrats and really look forward to working with you again.
Question: Matthew George Hedberg - RBC Capital Markets, Research Division - Analyst
: So I guess you guys have obviously a blue chip list of customers and have made a tremendous push with Splunk Cloud. How do you think about
accelerating new customer lands? It's been more of an upsell into the base, but that new customer land piece, how do you think about that?
Question: Matthew George Hedberg - RBC Capital Markets, Research Division - Analyst
: Got it. Okay. And then maybe for yourself or Jason. Speaking about the base, obviously, you have a large renewal opportunity this year. Can you
talk about the health of the large deal pipeline and maybe some of the close rates that you saw and maybe some of the assumptions you're making
for Q2?
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