At this time, 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 ability of our applied sciences coming collectively to not solely clear up a lot of their most advanced 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, knowledge, and gadgets that energy their enterprise, and so they should shield their whole digital footprint from cybersecurity threats, downtime, and different enterprise dangers. That is precisely what we’ll do.
The mixture of Cisco and Splunk will present unparalleled visibility and insights throughout a company’s whole digital footprint, fueled by complete safety, observability, and networking options. Our prospects will probably 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, we’ve unparalleled capabilities throughout AI, safety, networking, observability, and knowledge. It will 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. Additionally they want a trusted, strategic accomplice by their aspect each step of the way in which. With our mixed options and providers, we are able to guarantee our prospects are nicely positioned to win within the period of AI.
Second, we’ll ship mission vital safety outcomes for our prospects to remain forward of the quickly evolving risk panorama. Collectively, we could have extremely complete safety options for risk prevention, detection, investigation, and response for organizations of any dimension, using cloud, community, and endpoint visitors for unparalleled visibility.
We’re thrilled to share a couple of methods our portfolios will probably be stronger collectively. Over the following a number of months, we intend to include Cisco’s Talos risk intelligence into Splunk, providing our prospects entry to extremely complete risk intelligence to enhance risk 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 frequent 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 accessible from Cisco’s safety portfolio, enabling new methods for patrons to detect, examine, and reply to threats that may solely be recognized through lateral motion within the community.
Third, we’ll provide a extremely complete full-stack observability resolution for delivering superb digital experiences throughout multi-cloud hybrid environments. With essentially the most highly effective analytics and insights throughout the complete digital footprint, we’ll equip our prospects with the observability instruments to maintain their digital techniques up and operating 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 huge quantities of information each second. Now, by bringing Cisco and Splunk capabilities collectively, we are able to harness that knowledge in new and extra highly effective methods to supply a number one safe networking resolution delivered on clever, resilient, and frequently optimized community infrastructure.
Lastly, our mixed options will assist ship higher economics with distinctive worth. We consider the market pattern in the direction of instrument consolidation –– and the convergence of networking, safety, and observability –– creates a big alternative for Cisco and our prospects.
With Cisco and Splunk’s platform strategy, we’ll assist our prospects consolidate quite a few level merchandise—delivering higher enterprise outcomes and decreasing prices.
Accelerating Innovation with Prospects on the Middle
Whereas right now is a vital step in the direction of the longer term, 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’ll deal with 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 knowledge throughout any on-prem, hybrid, or multi-cloud surroundings. We are going to drive new improvements with a unified knowledge platform that integrates utility, fraud, community, multi-cloud, safety, consumer, and different knowledge sources to deal with cyber, technical, and enterprise dangers all through the complete portfolio. As well as, we’ll proceed our in depth use, help, and contribution to the open supply group corresponding to OpenTelemetry, eBPF, and extra.
We all know that a lot of our prospects worth an open strategy that advantages their distinctive know-how technique and we take that perspective to coronary heart. As such, our product portfolio will probably be open and extensible, with options which are tightly built-in, however loosely coupled, enabling us to help our prospects’ multi-vendor environments and shield their present IT investments.
Our Future Collectively
At this time is simply the beginning. Whereas there may be a lot that makes at the present time particular, maybe a very powerful to us is bringing the extremely gifted groups at Cisco and Splunk collectively.
We each have such pleasure 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 right now, but in addition lengthy into the longer term. Collectively, we all know we’re up for the problem and stay up for the chance to assist organizations around the globe grow to be extra linked and extra protected than ever earlier than.
Chair & CEO, Cisco
EVP & GM, Splunk
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