The world round us is consistently altering, and organizations are adapting to fulfill the calls for of an more and more advanced expertise panorama. Our prospects want to modernize their infrastructure, defend their organizations from cyber dangers, and unlock the facility 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 singular place to assist prospects join and defend each facet 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 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 whole product portfolio collectively as one group.
This new group will assist us speed up our product innovation and produce our portfolio collectively in a extra built-in approach than ever earlier than. It is going to additionally permit us to supply 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 along with his artistic imaginative and prescient and intense concentrate on innovation and swift execution. Collectively along with his group, he has labored tirelessly to rework and place Cisco’s Safety and Collaboration portfolios for fulfillment and development.
Beneath 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 because of AI innovation and our open technique that embraces competing conferences options available in the market. 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 concentrate on design and consumer 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 expertise, 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 expertise outcomes for our prospects 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 capability to seize the huge alternatives in entrance of us as we ship even better worth for our prospects and companions.
I stay up for persevering with to associate with Jeetu on this new, expanded position, and I thank Jonathan once more for all he has completed for Cisco, our prospects, and our communities.
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