The world round us is consistently altering, and organizations are adapting to fulfill the calls for of an more and more complicated expertise panorama. Our prospects want to modernize their infrastructure, defend their organizations from cyber dangers, and unlock the facility of their information. With Cisco’s management and broad portfolio throughout Networking, Safety, Collaboration, and Observability, and the current addition of Splunk, we’re in a singular place to assist prospects join and defend each facet 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 complete integration of Splunk into Cisco, we additionally plan to combine the Splunk product line into this new group on the proper time. It will convey our complete product portfolio collectively as one workforce.
This new group will assist us speed up our product innovation and convey our portfolio collectively in a extra built-in manner than ever earlier than. It should additionally enable us to offer a greater, unified expertise for our prospects and companions, whereas delivering distinctive options to assist them obtain their expertise outcomes and drive enterprise development.
Since becoming a member of Cisco 4 years in the past, Jeetu has led by instance together with his artistic imaginative and prescient and intense give attention to innovation and swift execution. Collectively together with his workforce, he has labored tirelessly to remodel and place Cisco’s Safety and Collaboration portfolios for achievement and development.
Underneath Jeetu’s management, we now have seen elevated development in Safety, and we’re delivering on a real platform method with Cisco Safety Cloud. Earlier this 12 months, we introduced Cisco Hypershield, essentially the most consequential safety product in our 40-year historical past, to really 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 give attention to design and person expertise place him properly because the chief of this newly fashioned 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 expertise, and communities across the globe via 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 expertise outcomes for our prospects and companions. Our portfolio is coming collectively in new methods to assist resolve a number of the world’s most urgent challenges. Wanting forward, I’m optimistic concerning the future and assured in Cisco’s capacity to seize the large alternatives in entrance of us as we ship even larger worth for our prospects and companions.
I sit up for persevering with to accomplice with Jeetu on this new, expanded function, and I thank Jonathan once more for all he has accomplished for Cisco, our prospects, and our communities.
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