The Elephant in the Room: How Independent Can Splunk Remain Inside Cisco?
Two years after the Cisco acquisition of Splunk, there is an elephant in the room.
Sep 22
Splunk .conf26: Agents, Observability and the Cisco Connection
I did not leave .conf26 believing that autonomous agents are about to take over the enterprise or that the human-led SOC is suddenly obsolete. I did leave believing that the operating model is changing.
Sep 22
Cisco Aims to Build and Secure the Network for the Agentic Era
The Dawn of the Networking Super-Cycle The industry is standing at a precipice, moving beyond the "Chatbot Era" into the "Agentic Era." At CiscoLive last week, CEO Chuck Robbins and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel leaned heavily on what they call the transition from human-led, "spiky" AI interactions (chatbots) to a world where AI agents act as autonomous digital co-workers. Cisco’s argument is that this shift is not merely a cyclical trend. It is a “Networking Super-Cycle,
Jun 10