Cisco closed its $28 billion purchase of Splunk and outlined what'll be a steady drumbeat of product integrations in the months ahead.
In a blog post outlining what's next for customers, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Splunk Executive Vice President and General Manager Gary Steele said the unified company will be heavily focused on security and observability.
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With the deal closed, Cisco becomes one of the largest enterprise software companies and retools its business mix. Here's how the product integrations will play out:
- Cisco's Talos threat intelligence will be embedded into Splunk's cybersecurity offerings.
- Cisco and Splunk will unify AI assistants for security so there's a common experience across the combined portfolio.
- Splunk's SIEM and SOAR platforms will leverage Cisco's cloud, network and endpoint analytics.
- The companies will combine for a full-stack observability platform to work across clouds. The integration will start with a common experience and workflow optimizations across Cisco and Splunk observability offerings.
- Over time, the combined Cisco and Splunk observability products will include AI-driven root cause enhancements and assistants including Splunk IT Service Intelligence.
Splunk and Cisco will also combine data for networking and AI deployments. More details about the Cisco integration of Splunk will land in June. Cisco Live is June 2-4 and Splunk's .conf24 is June 11-14.
