The world round us is consistently altering, and organizations are adapting to satisfy the calls for of an more and more complicated 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.
As we speak, 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 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 deliver our whole product portfolio collectively as one crew.
This new group will assist us speed up our product innovation and produce our portfolio collectively in a extra built-in method than ever earlier than. It is going to additionally enable us to offer a greater, unified expertise for our clients 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 inventive imaginative and prescient and intense deal with innovation and swift execution. Collectively together with his crew, he has labored tirelessly to rework and place Cisco’s Safety and Collaboration portfolios for achievement and development.
Underneath 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 yr, 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 because 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 nicely 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 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 vital 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 resolve a few 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 higher worth for our clients and companions.
I sit up for persevering with to accomplice with Jeetu on this new, expanded position, and I thank Jonathan once more for all he has accomplished for Cisco, our clients, and our communities.
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