The world round us is continually altering, and organizations are adapting to fulfill the calls for of an more and more advanced know-how panorama. Our prospects need to modernize their infrastructure, shield 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 latest addition of Splunk, we’re in a novel place to assist prospects join and shield each facet of their organizations within the period of AI.
At this time, I shared that Jonathan Davidson has made the choice to step away from his present position 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 position 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 may convey our total product portfolio collectively as one staff.
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 can additionally permit 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 artistic 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.
Below Jeetu’s management, we have now 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, probably 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 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 deal with design and person expertise place him properly 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 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 know-how outcomes for our prospects and companions. Our portfolio is coming collectively in new methods to assist clear up among 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 higher worth for our prospects and companions.
I sit up for persevering with to associate with Jeetu on this new, expanded position, and I thank Jonathan once more for all he has achieved for Cisco, our prospects, and our communities.
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