Jon Rooney, Splunk | AWS Re:Invent 2013
Jon Rooney, Splunk, at AWS Re:Invent 2013 2013 with John Furrier and Dave Vellante Just a few weeks ago, SiliconANGLE's theCUBE broadcast live from the AWS re:Invent 2013 conference. One of the interview broadcasts welcomed the director of developer marketing for Splunk, Jon Rooney. Wikibon's Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly sat down with Rooney to discuss Splunk's role as a partner with AWS, their focus on working directly with and for the developer community and how competitor criticisms won't keep Splunk from trying to maintain their leadership position in the industry. Amazon is migrating their successful pricing transparency to the world of AWS. Vellante asked Rooney about the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) option AWS is allowing for customers and software developers. With regard to BYOL "one of the things [AWS] says is...the ISV(independent software vendor) is required to list on the marketplace. In that instance, Amazon is going to take their 20 percent vig and ISV gets 80 percent," Vellante commented. "So, are you cool with that as an ISV?" Rooney's enthusiasm about Splunk's partnership centered on the value it is meant to bring to their current and future customers via the AWS marketplace and Splunk's key participation in the CloudTrails product developed for AWS. "We've been really happy with our partnership," Rooney commented. "It's a tremendous channel for us. How do we bring the value we deliver on operational intelligence to where [cloud customers] are? They're at AWS." @thecube #AWSreinvent