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  "tags": [
    "Analytics, Network Management Software, Networking",
    "integrating its security",
    "observability technology",
    "AppDynamics and ThousandEyes",
    "Related:**[**More Cisco news and insights**",
    "Splunk IT Service Intelligence",
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    "How Cisco’s platform mindset is meeting the AI era",
    "Cisco extends AgenticOps model across networking, security, observability products",
    "Cisco amps up Silicon One line, delivers new systems and optics for AI networking",
    "Takeaways from Cisco’s AI Summit",
    "Cisco: Infrastructure, trust, model development are key AI challenges",
    "AI, security tailwinds signal promising 2026 for Cisco",
    "Cisco adds intelligent policy enforcement to mesh firewall family",
    "Actively exploited Cisco UC bug requires immediate, version‑specific patching",
    "Cisco’s 2026 agenda prioritizes AI-ready infrastructure, connectivity",
    "Cisco finally patches seven-week-old zero-day flaw in Secure Email Gateway products"
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  "textContent": "Cisco has integrated Splunk analytics directly into its core data-center network management package, which the company says will help customers significantly speed network fault detection, reduce times for root cause analysis, and automate remediation.\n\nCisco bought Splunk for $28 billion in March 2024 and has been integrating its security and observability technology across the Cisco portfolio ever since. For example, Splunk integration plays a key part in the way Cisco observability and management products AppDynamics and ThousandEyes now work.\n\n##### ** Related:**[**More Cisco news and insights****]**\n\nIn the latest case, Cisco has integrated the Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) package with its Nexus Dashboard, which customers use to manage data center and campus networks featuring the Nexus 9000 Series and Cisco 8000 Series switches and routers. ITSI includes a variety of functions such as business and service monitoring, intelligent incident management, predictive analytics and network topology monitoring.\n\nWith the integration, data center teams can gather and act on events, alarms, health scores, and inventory through open APIs, Cisco stated. It also offers pre-built and customizable dashboards for inventory, health, fabric state, anomalies, and advisories as well as correlates telemetry across fabrics and technology tiers for actionable insights, according to Cisco.\n\n“This isn’t just another connector or API call. This is an embedded, architectural integration designed to transform how you monitor, troubleshoot, and secure your data center fabric. By bringing the power of Splunk directly into the Data Center Networking environment, we are enabling teams to solve complex problems faster, maintain strict data sovereignty, and dramatically reduce operational costs,” wrote Usha Andra is a senior product marketing leader and Anant Shah, senior product manager, both with Cisco Data Center Networking in a blog about the integration.\n\n“Traditionally, network monitoring involves a trade-off. You either send massive amounts of raw logs to a centralized data lake, incurring high ingress and storage costs. Or you rely on sampled data that misses critical microbursts and anomalies,” Andra and Shah wrote. “Native Splunk integration changes the paradigm by running Splunk capabilities directly within the Cisco Nexus Dashboard. This allows for the streaming of high-fidelity telemetry, including anomalies, advisories, and audit logs, directly to Splunk analytics.”\n\nPerhaps the most profound impact of this integration is cultural because It forces a convergence between Network Operations (NetOps) and Security Operations (SecOps), Andra and Shah stated.\n\n“Security teams need network data to identify threats, while network teams need security context to manage traffic. By using Splunk as the common language on top of Cisco Nexus infrastructure, both teams view the same reality. An anomaly in traffic flow is investigated simultaneously as a potential configuration error by NetOps and a potential exfiltration attempt by SecOps,” the Cisco blog states.\n\n#### More Cisco news:\n\n  1. Cisco: LPO not a panacea but plays strategic role in AI networks\n  2. Cisco issues emergency patches for critical firewall vulnerabilities\n  3. How Cisco’s platform mindset is meeting the AI era\n  4. Cisco extends AgenticOps model across networking, security, observability products\n  5. Cisco amps up Silicon One line, delivers new systems and optics for AI networking\n  6. Takeaways from Cisco’s AI Summit\n  7. Cisco: Infrastructure, trust, model development are key AI challenges\n  8. AI, security tailwinds signal promising 2026 for Cisco\n  9. Cisco adds intelligent policy enforcement to mesh firewall family\n  10. Actively exploited Cisco UC bug requires immediate, version‑specific patching\n  11. Cisco’s 2026 agenda prioritizes AI-ready infrastructure, connectivity\n  12. Cisco finally patches seven-week-old zero-day flaw in Secure Email Gateway products\n\n",
  "title": "Cisco blends Splunk analytics, security with core data center management"
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