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 clients want to modernize their infrastructure, shield their organizations from cyber dangers, and unlock the ability of their knowledge. With Cisco’s management and broad portfolio throughout Networking, Safety, Collaboration, and Observability, and the latest addition of Splunk, we’re in a novel place to assist clients join and shield each side of their organizations within the period of AI.
At present, 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 carry 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 can additionally permit us to supply a greater, unified expertise for our clients and companions, whereas delivering distinctive options to assist them obtain their know-how outcomes and drive enterprise progress.
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 give attention to 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 progress.
Underneath Jeetu’s management, we have now seen elevated progress in Safety, and we’re delivering on a real platform method with Cisco Safety Cloud. Earlier this yr, we introduced Cisco Hypershield, essentially 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 progress, and we’ve seen double-digit bookings progress in our gadgets 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 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 means 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 crucial step towards unification and simplification and can in the end result in even stronger know-how outcomes for our clients and companions. Our portfolio is coming collectively in new methods to assist clear up a number of the world’s most urgent challenges. Wanting forward, I’m optimistic concerning the future and assured in Cisco’s potential to seize the large alternatives in entrance of us as we ship even larger worth for our clients 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 completed for Cisco, our clients, and our communities.
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