Six months after the announcement, Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk is officially complete. Splunk is completely swallowed by Cisco.

Splunk has now officially become part of Cisco. At the end of September 2023, Cisco raised $28 billion to take over the data processing specialist. Now everything is in order. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and new Cisco VP and GM Splunk Gary Steele have outlined a plan for integrating Splunk into Cisco in the coming period.

The duo discuss a plan to bundle Splunk’s SIEM solution into Cisco’s SOAR platform, which focuses on cloud, network and endpoint analytics. A multi-cloud observation platform is also on the agenda.

Of course, AI is also part of their plan. “To truly realize the benefits of AI, companies need the infrastructure to run it, the data to develop it, a security platform to protect it, and an observability platform to monitor it in real time manage. With our combined solutions and services, we can ensure our customers are well positioned to win in the age of AI.”

Another part the duo highlights: “We want to offer our customers flexibility and choice in how they access and deploy their data in any on-prem, hybrid or multi-cloud environment.” We will innovate with a unified data platform that integrates application, fraud, network, multi-cloud, security, user and other data sources to address cyber, technical and business risks across the portfolio.”

“In addition, we will continue our extensive use, support and contributions to the open source community such as OpenTelemetry, eBPF and more.”

Both sides are already looking forward to this. The only detail we’re missing from the announcement is a concrete timeline. For now, we’ll have to wait until more concrete details are announced in the coming months.