Right this moment, we’re excited to share that Splunk is now formally part of Cisco. This implies, beginning now, our prospects will start to see the advantages of the facility of our applied sciences coming collectively to not solely remedy lots of their most advanced challenges, but in addition allow great alternatives. Cisco – supercharged by Splunk – will deliver the total energy of the community along with market-leading safety and observability options.
Organizations want to attach the folks, locations, apps, information, and units that energy their enterprise, they usually should defend their total digital footprint from cybersecurity threats, downtime, and different enterprise dangers. That is precisely what we are going to do.
The mix of Cisco and Splunk will present unparalleled visibility and insights throughout a corporation’s total digital footprint, fueled by complete safety, observability, and networking options. Our prospects will likely be empowered to ship seamless, safe buyer and worker experiences throughout the bodily, digital, and AI-powered worlds.
Higher Collectively: Powering and Defending the AI Revolution
As one of many largest software program firms on the earth, we have now unparalleled capabilities throughout AI, safety, networking, observability, and information. This can assist our prospects obtain a number of business-critical outcomes.
First, we’re going to energy the AI revolution. To actually reap the advantages of AI, organizations want the infrastructure to energy it, the information to develop it, a safety platform to guard it, and an observability platform to watch and handle it in actual time. In addition they want a trusted, strategic accomplice by their aspect each step of the best way. With our mixed options and providers, we will guarantee our prospects are properly positioned to win within the period of AI.
Second, we are going to ship mission essential safety outcomes for our prospects to remain forward of the quickly evolving menace panorama. Collectively, we can have extremely complete safety options for menace prevention, detection, investigation, and response for organizations of any dimension, using cloud, community, and endpoint site visitors for unparalleled visibility.
We’re thrilled to share a number of methods our portfolios will likely be stronger collectively. Over the subsequent a number of months, we intend to include Cisco’s Talos menace intelligence into Splunk, providing our prospects entry to extremely complete menace intelligence to enhance menace detection, quicker incident response, and a extra proactive safety technique. We additionally intend to unify our AI assistants for safety, so safety professionals have one widespread expertise when using AI to investigate points and carry out duties throughout the mixed portfolio. Transferring ahead, we intend to allow Splunk’s market main SIEM and SOAR platform to make the most of cloud, community, and endpoint analytics out there from Cisco’s safety portfolio, enabling new methods for patrons to detect, examine, and reply to threats that may solely be recognized by way of lateral motion within the community.
Third, we are going to provide a extremely complete full-stack observability answer for delivering superb digital experiences throughout multi-cloud hybrid environments. With probably the most highly effective analytics and insights throughout the complete digital footprint, we are going to equip our prospects with the observability instruments to maintain their digital methods up and working and keep away from expensive downtime. We will even start to ship a typical expertise and workflow optimizations throughout the Cisco and Splunk Observability portfolios. In time, IT and engineering groups can anticipate AI-driven root trigger evaluation enhancements and assistants, inclusive of Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI).
Fourth, our prospects will now get much more worth out of their community. For practically 40 years, Cisco has constructed networks which transfer large quantities of knowledge each second. Now, by bringing Cisco and Splunk capabilities collectively, we will harness that information in new and extra highly effective methods to supply a number one safe networking answer delivered on clever, resilient, and frequently optimized community infrastructure.
Lastly, our mixed options will assist ship higher economics with distinctive worth. We imagine the market pattern in direction of instrument consolidation –– and the convergence of networking, safety, and observability –– creates a major alternative for Cisco and our prospects.
With Cisco and Splunk’s platform method, we are going to assist our prospects consolidate quite a few level merchandise—delivering higher enterprise outcomes and decreasing prices.
Accelerating Innovation with Clients on the Middle
Whereas at present is a essential step in direction of the long run, it’s the primary of many. Our groups have been planning for this second, and now the deep integration work begins. We’re dedicated to a considerate, deliberate, and accountable course of. Over the subsequent a number of months, we are going to concentrate on constructing and delivering best-in-class integrations between Cisco and Splunk merchandise.
On the core of this work is our dedication to providing our prospects flexibility and selection in how they entry and deploy their information throughout any on-prem, hybrid, or multi-cloud setting. We’ll drive new improvements with a unified information platform that integrates software, fraud, community, multi-cloud, safety, person, and different information sources to deal with cyber, technical, and enterprise dangers all through the complete portfolio. As well as, we are going to proceed our intensive use, help, and contribution to the open supply neighborhood akin to OpenTelemetry, eBPF, and extra.
We all know that lots of our prospects worth an open method that advantages their distinctive expertise technique and we take that perspective to coronary heart. As such, our product portfolio will likely be open and extensible, with options which might be tightly built-in, however loosely coupled, enabling us to help our prospects’ multi-vendor environments and defend their present IT investments.
Our Future Collectively
Right this moment is barely the beginning. Whereas there’s a lot that makes this present day particular, maybe a very powerful to us is bringing the extremely gifted groups at Cisco and Splunk collectively.
We each have such satisfaction within the cultures of our two organizations who embody core values that information us to make the world a safer, extra resilient, and extra inclusive place. As we transfer into our subsequent chapter along with Splunk as part of Cisco, we share an pleasure for fixing the hardest issues our prospects face not solely at present, but in addition lengthy into the long run. Collectively, we all know we’re up for the problem and look ahead to the chance to assist organizations around the globe grow to be extra related and extra protected than ever earlier than.
Chair & CEO, Cisco
EVP & GM, Splunk
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