Splunk Joins Cisco: Our Partner Ecosystems Just Got Even Stronger

By Gretchen O'Hara, Rodney Clark

What do you get when you combine the full power of the network with market-leading security and observability solutions? More customer value and an amazing partner ecosystem.

It’s official! Today, with the closing of the acquisition, Splunk became part of Cisco. We’re looking forward to this exciting new chapter of our journey together – and it couldn’t have come at a better time.

Delivering Greater Customer Value Together

In today’s digital world, organizations need to connect the people, places, apps, data, and devices that power their business, while protecting their entire digital footprint from cybersecurity threats, downtime, and other business risks. Together, we’re revolutionizing the way our customers leverage data to connect and protect every aspect of their organizations – and we’ll be doing it with our incredible partners.

How? Through:

Better Security. A highly comprehensive security solution for threat prevention, detection, investigation, and response for organizations of any size, utilizing cloud, network, and endpoint traffic for unparalleled visibility.
Better Observability. A highly comprehensive full-stack observability solution for delivering amazing digital experiences across a multi-cloud hybrid environment.
Better Networking. A leading secure networking solution delivered on intelligent, resilient, and continually optimized network infrastructure.
Better AI. Cisco’s networking portfolio – combined with enhanced security, full-stack observability, and a comprehensive data platform – empowers customers to securely harness the power of AI throughout their organizations and applications.
Better Economics. Cisco and Splunk’s platform approach will help our customers consolidate numerous point products—delivering better business outcomes and reducing costs.

Delivering Greater Partner Value

Whether you’re a Splunk partner or Cisco partner or both, you may be wondering what this means for you and your organization.

Splunk partners now form an essential part of Cisco’s global partner ecosystem.
We believe partners across this unified ecosystem can benefit from the innovation, differentiation, and opportunity for profitable growth resulting from our companies – and partner communities – coming together.
Collectively, we have an opportunity to deliver unique experiences and high-value services for our customers by working together in new ways.

For now, it’s business as usual. As our partners’ success is our top priority, we’re balancing the need to quickly bring the benefits of our combined capabilities to our partners while ensuring a great experience. We’ll be sharing more information in the coming months as we bring our organizations together.

Meanwhile, we invite you to join us April 4 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time for an Executive Roundtable on the Future of Cisco and Splunk livestreamed on Cisco.com. Learn more about our joint vision, and register for the Roundtable.

Thank you for your continued partnership, and we look forward to this exciting new chapter in our journey together.

Rodney and Gretchen

Gretchen O'Hara

Gretchen O’Hara is the Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Alliances at Splunk. She is responsible for evolving Splunk’s channel strategy and ecosystem to improve the customer and partner experience and scaling Splunk solutions to support customers operating in a distributed, hybrid, multicloud world. With more than 25 years of channel sales, marketing alliances and ecosystem development, Gretchen brings a passion for building ecosystems, business building and connecting sales, technical and marketing to deliver world-class solutions that address customers’ most important business outcomes. She has deep experience across all partners and segments from Developers to Global ISVs and Small Business to the Enterprise and Public Sector. She is a people leader, and a channel and customer advocate with a track record of channel transformation, promoting women in STEM and leveraging technology to solve the world’s most vexing sustainability challenges.

Prior to Splunk, Gretchen was the Vice President of AI & Sustainability and Vice President of Go-To-Market for One Commercial Partner at Microsoft where she built billion-dollar businesses. She led the global cloud ecosystem strategy across core cloud solutions and ecosystem transformation to the cloud. She holds a B.A. and executive MBA from University of Washington Foster School of Business, and executive education at Wharton, Cal Tech and London Business School.

Rodney Clark

Rodney Clark is the Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Partnerships and Small & Medium Business. Clark and his team are responsible for empowering and enabling Cisco’s global ecosystem of partners and scaling and strengthening routes to market to help drive profitable growth. Foundational to this strategy is ensuring customers – from enterprises to small and medium businesses - can buy and consume Cisco and partner solutions the way that best meets their needs along their digital transformation journey.

Clark joined Cisco from Johnson Controls where he was Chief Commercial Officer. During his time there, he was responsible for global sales, sales excellence, all aspects of marketing, channel engagement, and a broader company transformation, all with a focus on helping customers build healthy, smart, and sustainable futures. Prior to that, Clark spent nearly 25 years at Microsoft, where he held various senior sales leadership positions, including serving as Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Sales. Clark also spent nine years with IBM in strategy, sales, marketing, mergers & acquisitions, and digital transformation.

Clark holds a Bachelor of Science in marketing from California State University, Fresno, where he now serves in an advisory capacity to the Craig School of Business. He also sits on the board of directors for Groopit and Entegris, Inc., a publicly traded company. Clark is a passionate advocate for and active supporter of diversity and equity in education, community to create an inclusive future for all.

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About Splunk

The world’s leading organizations rely on Splunk, a Cisco company, to continuously strengthen digital resilience with our unified security and observability platform, powered by industry-leading AI.

Our customers trust Splunk’s award-winning security and observability solutions to secure and improve the reliability of their complex digital environments, at any scale.