At present, we’re excited to share that Splunk is now formally part of Cisco. This implies, beginning now, our clients will start to see the advantages of the ability of our applied sciences coming collectively to not solely resolve lots of their most complicated challenges, but in addition allow super alternatives. Cisco – supercharged by Splunk – will convey the complete energy of the community along with market-leading safety and observability options.
Organizations want to attach the individuals, locations, apps, information, and units that energy their enterprise, they usually should defend their complete 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 complete digital footprint, fueled by complete safety, observability, and networking options. Our clients 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 this planet, now we have unparalleled capabilities throughout AI, safety, networking, observability, and information. This may assist our clients obtain a number of business-critical outcomes.
First, we’re going to energy the AI revolution. To really reap the advantages of AI, organizations want the infrastructure to energy it, the info to develop it, a safety platform to guard it, and an observability platform to watch and handle it in actual time. Additionally they want a trusted, strategic accomplice by their facet each step of the best way. With our mixed options and providers, we are able to guarantee our clients are properly positioned to win within the period of AI.
Second, we are going to ship mission vital safety outcomes for our clients 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 measurement, using cloud, community, and endpoint visitors for unparalleled visibility.
We’re thrilled to share a number of methods our portfolios will likely be stronger collectively. Over the following a number of months, we intend to include Cisco’s Talos menace intelligence into Splunk, providing our clients entry to extremely complete menace intelligence to enhance menace detection, sooner 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 research 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 supply a extremely complete full-stack observability resolution for delivering wonderful digital experiences throughout multi-cloud hybrid environments. With probably the most highly effective analytics and insights throughout the whole digital footprint, we are going to equip our clients with the observability instruments to maintain their digital techniques up and operating and keep away from pricey downtime. We can 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 clients will now get much more worth out of their community. For almost 40 years, Cisco has constructed networks which transfer huge quantities of information each second. Now, by bringing Cisco and Splunk capabilities collectively, we are able to harness that information in new and extra highly effective methods to offer a number one safe networking resolution delivered on clever, resilient, and regularly optimized community infrastructure.
Lastly, our mixed options will assist ship higher economics with distinctive worth. We consider the market development in the direction of instrument consolidation –– and the convergence of networking, safety, and observability –– creates a major alternative for Cisco and our clients.
With Cisco and Splunk’s platform method, we are going to assist our clients consolidate quite a few level merchandise—delivering higher enterprise outcomes and lowering prices.
Accelerating Innovation with Prospects on the Heart
Whereas right this moment is a vital step in the 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 following a number of months, we are going to give attention to constructing and delivering best-in-class integrations between Cisco and Splunk merchandise.
On the core of this work is our dedication to providing our clients flexibility and selection in how they entry and deploy their information throughout any on-prem, hybrid, or multi-cloud atmosphere. We are going to drive new improvements with a unified information platform that integrates software, fraud, community, multi-cloud, safety, consumer, and different information sources to handle cyber, technical, and enterprise dangers all through the whole portfolio. As well as, we are going to proceed our intensive use, help, and contribution to the open supply group reminiscent of OpenTelemetry, eBPF, and extra.
We all know that lots of our clients worth an open method that advantages their distinctive know-how 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 clients’ multi-vendor environments and defend their present IT investments.
Our Future Collectively
At present is barely the beginning. Whereas there may be a lot that makes today 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 clients face not solely right this moment, but in addition lengthy into the long run. Collectively, we all know we’re up for the problem and stay up for the chance to assist organizations all over the world change into extra related and extra protected than ever earlier than.
Chair & CEO, Cisco
EVP & GM, Splunk
Ahead-Wanting Statements
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