There’s a tiny bit more to Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk than just a lumbering hardware giant striving to secure a firmer foothold in the software business. Related: Why ‘observability’ is rising to the fore Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins has … (more…)

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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins has laid down a $28 billion bet that he’ll be able to overcome challenges Cisco is facing as its networking equipment business slows, beset by supply chain issues and reduced demand. As a leading supplier of advanced security information and event management, Splunk happens to find itself in the thick of a tectonic shift.

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