CNME Editor Mark Forker was on the ground at Cisco Splunk .conf25 in Boston, and the company unloaded a barrage of new products, solutions and technologies designed to empower their community of users and customers to harness all the capabilities emerging in the AI era.
Below is a summary with a direct link to the full press releases on the product announcements that really captured the imagination of those in attendance at .conf25.
Cisco Data Fabric Transforms Machine Data into AI-Ready Intelligence
Cisco announced the Cisco Data Fabric, a revolutionary new architecture powered by the Splunk platform.
It dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of handling machine data at scale and makes it usable for AI applications such as training custom AI models, powering agentic workflows, and correlating machine and business data to drive better decisions.
With the forthcoming Time Series Foundation Model, Splunk Machine Data Lake, Splunk AI Toolkit, and Cisco AI Canvas, the Data Fabric provides a unified foundation for advanced analytics and collaboration.
Read the full Data Fabric announcement here.
Cisco Elevates the SOC with Agentic AI for Faster Threat Response and Reduced Complexity
Cisco introduced Splunk Enterprise Security Essentials Edition and Splunk Enterprise Security Premier Edition, delivered within Splunk Enterprise Security 8.2.
These new offerings unify detection, investigation, and response while embedding agentic AI at the core of the SOC.
Planned features include an AI Triage Agent, Malware Reversal Agent, AI Playbook Authoring, Response Importer, an AI-Enhanced Detection Library, and personalized SPL generation to help teams respond faster and simplify security operations.
Read the full Security announcement here.
Cisco Supercharges Observability with Agentic AI for Real-Time Business Insights
Cisco has introduced agentic AI-powered innovations in Splunk Observability to unify monitoring, surface business context, and deploy AI-powered agents across the incident response lifecycle.
New features include AI Troubleshooting Agents, Event iQ for alert correlation, ITSI Episode Summarization, AI Agent Monitoring, and AI Infrastructure Monitoring.
Additional enhancements include Business Insights, Digital Experience Analytics, APM support for hybrid apps, new Session Replay capabilities, and expanded integration with Cisco ThousandEyes.
Read the full Observability announcement here.
Cisco Advances Open Data Ecosystems with Splunk Federated Search for Snowflake
Cisco unveiled Splunk Federated Search for Snowflake, a new integration that empowers organizations to connect, query, and combine data across Splunk and Snowflake environments.
This integration enables teams to enrich operational data with Snowflake business data, set business context for ITOps, SecOps, and engineering use cases, and accelerate detection, triage, and resolution.
It will be generally available for Splunk Cloud AWS commercial customers in July 2026.
Read the full Snowflake announcement here.