I've been away from Splunk for a few years and trying to catch up. I noticed at .conf23 it was mentioned that Splunk on-prem installations will be supported for the "foreseeable future". Does this imply that Splunk Cloud will at some point be the only way to go? Is the skill of installing and maintaining a distributed, clustered on-prem environment a soon to be obsolete skillset? Or, will it most likely follow the same timeline of any other product and the general gravitation toward cloud. What skill/knowledge around Splunk is the most in-demand at this point?
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