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Splunk rebuilds its platform around agents
Cisco's Splunk unit announced a strategic overhaul to reposition itself as a data and governance foundation for the 'agentic enterprise'.
Key takeaways
- Splunk executives said the announcements are a strategic overhaul rather than a routine product refresh.
- The centerpiece is Cisco Data Fabric, a new architecture powered by the Splunk platform that can analyze information where it resides instead of requiring customers to copy everything into Splunk.
- The fabric federates data across Splunk, cloud object stores, data lakes and platforms such as Snowflake Inc. and Databricks Inc.
- 'Cost is directly addressed by this federated approach,' Pimpalkhare said.
- Splunk is also extending AI processing into customers’ own data centers through an expanded partnership with Nvidia Corp.
Cisco's Splunk unit announced a strategic overhaul to reposition itself as a data and governance foundation for the 'agentic enterprise'. The centerpiece is the Cisco Data Fabric, a new architecture that federates data across Splunk, cloud object stores, data lakes, and platforms like Snowflake and Databricks without requiring data to be copied into Splunk, addressing data ingestion costs. Splunk is also extending AI processing into customer data centers via a partnership with Nvidia, including the Cisco AI POD for Splunk. On the cloud side, a multiyear agreement with AWS will involve joint development of agent-specific security products. The security overhaul includes Agentic Security Operations Center Workforce agents for detection engineering, threat hunting, and malware analysis, packaged in Enterprise Security Essentials and Enterprise Security Premier. For observability, Splunk Agent Observability monitors agent infrastructure and behavior, including runtime guardrails. A new Tokenomics capability tracks token consumption across models and coding tools. The platform supports self-hosted models like Cisco's Deep Time Series Model, Google's Gemma 4, and OpenAI's GPT-OSS 20B.
Splunk is pivoting from a machine-data-search tool to a governance layer for AI agents, addressing cost and trust hurdles.
By the numbers
- 20B
- Parameter count for supported GPT-OSS model
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Common questions
- What happened with Splunk?
- Cisco's Splunk unit today unveiled a broad set of platform, security and observability enhancements intended to reposition the company as a data and governance foundation for the emerging 'agentic enterprise.'
- Where can I read the original report?
- Read the full report at Siliconangle.
