At swampUP 2025, JFrog’s Yonatan Arbel reflects on his journey inside the company and how developer DNA continues to shape JFrog’s culture. Arbel, who has spent nearly a decade with JFrog, began as a software engineer before moving into leadership and eventually into a developer relations role. But as he emphasized, “once a developer, always […]
Cisco to Add AI Agents to Splunk Observability Platforms
Cisco today at its Splunk .Conf25 conference previewed a series of artificial intelligence (AI) agents for the Splunk Observability platform that are capable of automating the collection of telemetry data using open source OpenTelemetry software, detecting issues, identifying root causes, and applying fixes. At the same time, Cisco also launched Cisco Data Fabric, a platform […]
Cisco Adds Generative AI and Deeper Splunk Integrations to AppDynamics
Several Cisco platforms will gradually be integrated into a single data platform, including Cisco AppDynamics, the Cisco ThousandEyes networking monitor service and the Splunk platform.
Cisco Extends Scope and Reach of Observability Platform
Cisco this week expanded the scope of its observability platform by adding predictive and generative AI capabilities and log analytics.
Cisco Acquires Splunk to Create Observability Powerhouse
Cisco today revealed it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Splunk for $28 billion in cash.
Cisco Aligns With Nutanix on Hybrid Cloud Computing
Cisco and Nutanix announced a strategic partnership through which the two companies will collaborate to advance hybrid cloud computing.
Cisco Streamlines Licensing Options for IT Operations Platform
Cisco has reduced the number of licensing options for its Intersight operations platform to two as part of an effort to make the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing on-premises and cloud computing environments more accessible. In addition, Cisco has added a Cisco UCS X-series Modular System to its portfolio based on a two-socket server configured […]
Cisco Bets on OpenTelemetry to Advance Observability
Cisco today announced a technology preview of a Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform based on instances of open source OpenTelemetry agent software being advanced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to collect metrics, event, logs and distributed traces. The Cisco Full-Stack Observability platform will be available in June 2023. The platform, announced at a Cisco […]
Cisco AppDynamics Survey Surfaces DevSecOps Challenges
A survey of 1,150 large enterprise IT professionals from the AppDynamics unit of Cisco suggested application security progress is being made slowly and steadily as organizations continue to embrace DevSecOps best practices. The survey finds that while more than three-quarters of respondents (76%) believe that DevSecOps is essential for organizations to effectively protect against a […]
Cisco Unveils 800G Networking Platform to Advance DataOps
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit conference, Cisco announced it developed an 800-gigabit switch that consumes significantly less power than the previous generation of its networking equipment. Thomas Scheibe, vice president of product management for cloud networking for Cisco’s Nexus and ACI product line, said the throughput provided by the latest 7-nanometer iteration […]