The world round us is continually altering, and organizations are adapting to satisfy the calls for of an more and more advanced know-how panorama. Our prospects need to modernize their infrastructure, defend their organizations from cyber dangers, and unlock the ability of their information. With Cisco’s management and broad portfolio throughout Networking, Safety, Collaboration, and Observability, and the latest addition of Splunk, we’re in a singular place to assist prospects join and defend each side of their organizations within the period of AI.
Right now, I shared that Jonathan Davidson has made the choice to step away from his present function main Cisco Networking and can now function an advisor to me. With this, we’re bringing our Networking, Safety, and Collaboration groups collectively as one group led by Jeetu Patel as he takes on an expanded function as Cisco’s EVP and Chief Product Officer. As we transfer to finish the total integration of Splunk into Cisco, we additionally plan to combine the Splunk product line into this new group on the proper time. This can convey our complete product portfolio collectively as one staff.
This new group will assist us speed up our product innovation and produce our portfolio collectively in a extra built-in manner than ever earlier than. It would additionally enable us to offer a greater, unified expertise for our prospects and companions, whereas delivering distinctive options to assist them obtain their know-how outcomes and drive enterprise development.
Since becoming a member of Cisco 4 years in the past, Jeetu has led by instance together with his inventive imaginative and prescient and intense deal with innovation and swift execution. Collectively together with his staff, he has labored tirelessly to remodel and place Cisco’s Safety and Collaboration portfolios for achievement and development.
Beneath Jeetu’s management, now we have seen elevated development in Safety, and we’re delivering on a real platform strategy with Cisco Safety Cloud. Earlier this 12 months, we introduced Cisco Hypershield, probably the most consequential safety product in our 40-year historical past, to actually reimagine safety for the age of AI. Jeetu has additionally returned the collaboration enterprise to development, and we’ve seen double-digit bookings development in our units enterprise on account of AI innovation and our open technique that embraces competing conferences options out there. He continues to champion innovation in generative AI throughout our safety and collaboration choices, bringing differentiated capabilities to Webex and driving the imaginative and prescient for a unified AI Assistant throughout Cisco. Jeetu’s ardour, depth, sense of urgency, and fanatical deal with design and consumer expertise place him effectively because the chief of this newly shaped group.
Jonathan has been pivotal to Cisco’s success throughout his mixed 22 years with the corporate. He believes deeply within the energy of connection and has demonstrated care and dedication to his groups, Cisco’s innovation and know-how, and communities across the globe by way of his ardour for offering digital entry for all. We’re grateful for his a few years of management.
Additional uniting our product groups is a vital step towards unification and simplification and can in the end result in even stronger know-how outcomes for our prospects and companions. Our portfolio is coming collectively in new methods to assist resolve among the world’s most urgent challenges. Wanting forward, I’m optimistic concerning the future and assured in Cisco’s capacity to seize the huge alternatives in entrance of us as we ship even better worth for our prospects and companions.
I stay up for persevering with to accomplice with Jeetu on this new, expanded function, and I thank Jonathan once more for all he has finished for Cisco, our prospects, and our communities.
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