Cisco's acquisition of Splunk is building out a complete new observability product, Unified Observability Experience, Cisco announced at the Cisco Live conference on June 5. As part of the same set of conference announcements, Cisco also showed the initial availability of a free trial of Motific, a generative AI delivery platform created in conjunction with Mistral AI.
Unified observability experience creates easy connections between AppDynamics and Splunk Platform
Cisco acquired data security and observability company Splunk in March 2024. At the time, Splunk president and CEO Chuck Robbins, as well as Splunk executive vice president and CEO Gary Steele, wrote in a statement. press that the company planned to “drive new innovations.” with a unified data platform.” The Unified Observability Experience announced June 5 follows up on this by creating a complete observability offering from both companies' products. The unified observability experience offers:
- New single sign-on credentials for shared workflows between Cisco AppDynamics and Splunk.
- Context-sensitive deep links allow Cisco AppDynamics customers to easily transition to relevant records on the Splunk platform.
- Full-stack, environment-agnostic connections between a variety of applications, including Cisco AppDynamics on Microsoft Azure.
- Other new connections between Cisco and Splunk Platform.
The Unified Observability Experience will be generally available in Q3 2024.
SEE: In May 2024, Cisco and Splunk began their convergence with new security capabilities for Cisco Hypershield.
Cisco AppDynamics Gets AI Tools and a Microsoft Azure Option
Cisco and Splunk announced new artificial intelligence tools to help with decision making:
- An AI assistant for Cisco AppDynamics, generally available in Q3 2024.
- Tools to set thresholds, manage and optimize configurations and insights with AI and machine learning in Splunk IT Service Intelligence.
Cisco AppDynamics will be hosted as Software as a Service on Microsoft Azure starting in the third quarter of this year, enabling compliance with industry-specific regulatory requirements in new regions.
Cisco Outshift Incubator Partners with Mistral AI
Outshift, Cisco's incubation arm, announced that its generative AI deployment tool, Motific, is now available as a free trial ahead of general availability of the production version on July 31. Motific helps IT and business function teams deliver generative AI applications and assistants. This is a booming industry, with companies selling easier ways for businesses to adopt equally modern generative AI solutions.
Additionally, Outshift has shaken hands with Mistral AI to offer the Mistral AI large language model as a pre-built model in Motific.
“We are pleased to launch this collaboration with Cisco, which will provide new opportunities for GenAI attendees through Motific,” Mistral AI CEO and co-founder Arthur Mensch said in a press release. “We look forward to seeing our models improve innovation and optimize operations for Cisco customers, while ensuring compliance with their organization's trust, security and cost policies.”
In the future, Cisco and Outshift plan to use Mistral AI products for upcoming security barriers, intelligence, and recovery augmented generation capabilities at Motific. Outshift will explore using Mistral AI to model specific domains and tasks across Outshift products and features.
Mistral AI is among the recipients of Cisco's recently announced $1 billion global AI investment fund.
