Page 25 - SAMENA Trends - August-September 2025

REGIONAL & MEMBERS UPDATES SAMENA TRENDS

Cisco Supercharges Observability with Agentic AI for Real-Time Business
Insight

Cisco has announced agentic AI-powered powered agents across the full incident entire digital estate. “Our mission is clear
Splunk Observability, an AI-native approach response lifecycle, while monitoring both – to help organizations put AI applications
to observability that sets a new standard its performance and quality. Through and agents to work, while retaining visibility
for how customers can strengthen integrations across Cisco technologies and control,” said Patrick Lin, SVP and GM
their resilience. The enhanced Splunk with Splunk, customers gain unmatched of Splunk Observability. “With the latest
Observability portfolio unifies observability visibility and correlation of data insights innovations in Splunk Observability, we
across environments, surfaces actionable across their networks, infrastructure, and are empowering enterprises to proactively
business context, and deploys AI- applications to improve the reliability of their monitor their critical applications and
digital services with ease, resolve issues
before they escalate, and ensure the
value and outcomes they derive from
observability are commensurate with
the cost.” Agentic AI is reshaping what
it takes to build a leading observability
practice. As AI-assisted coding gains
steam, applications will be built with less
human involvement. At the same time, a
new wave of AI-enabled applications and
AI agents demand specialized telemetry to
confirm models are performing as intended
– aligned to business purpose and cost.
To keep pace, organizations need unified,
in-context, visibility across all of these
environments to prioritize issues based on
business impact.

Cisco Advances Open Data Ecosystems with Splunk Federated Search for
Snowflake

Cisco has unveiled Splunk Federated Search
for Snowflake, a new Splunk Platform
integration that empowers organizations
to seamlessly connect, query, and combine
operational and business data across
Splunk and Snowflake environments.
By establishing this integration with
Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company,
Cisco is underscoring its commitment to
foster an open data ecosystem and help
organizations gain faster, richer insights
from their data. In the agentic AI era,
organizations face an unprecedented surge
in data volumes and sources, with critical
information scattered across multiple
platforms. Unified visibility across diverse
data sources is essential to meet security,
observability, and operational objectives.
Splunk Federated Search for Snowflake
directly addresses this challenge by enrich it with Splunk data, and drive new simple for customers to access and act on
enabling teams to query Snowflake data levels of analytics and insights. “Splunk their data, uniting business and operational
from within the familiar Splunk interface, Federated Search for Snowflake makes it insights in one view,” said Kamal Hathi,

25 AUG-SEP 2025