Why Observability Has Become the Control Plane for Enterprise AI

Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA podcast series with Cisco Splunk's Tapan Shah, NVIDIA's Shashank Sabhlok and WWT's Ivan Wintersteiger

About Splunk & WWT

As an authorized Elite partner, WWT offers customers Splunk solutions to interpret, manage and secure the increasingly massive streams of machine-generated data from all devices, tools and applications in their architecture.

WWT technologists and application experts design and integrate Splunk with other technologies to deliver enhanced business outcomes. In short, WWT amplifies Splunk's data management capabilities to greatly improve enterprise security.

Integrations created by WWT include Tanium, Cisco ISE, Extrahop, Palo Alto, Wildfire, Apeiron, Cisco Security Suite, VMware, Stealthwatch, Lancope, Sourcefire, F5, Hadoop and custom integrations through WWT's Applications Services team.

From Networking to AI Platforms: Key Takeaways from Cisco Live 2026 Amsterdam

At Cisco Live 2026 Amsterdam, Cisco unveiled transformative AI strategies, emphasizing infrastructure, trust, and data as key constraints. Innovations like Cisco Silicon One G300 and AgenticOps redefine AI networking and operations, focusing on efficiency, security, and sovereignty. This marks a pivotal shift towards integrated, scalable AI systems, urging enterprises to adapt swiftly.
Blog
•Mar 2, 2026

Why Observability Has Become the Control Plane for Enterprise AI

As enterprises rush to deploy AI, observability is emerging as the discipline that determines whether those investments create durable value—or quietly erode it. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's Ivan Wintersteiger, Cisco Splunk's Tapan Shah and NVIDIA's Shashank Sabhlok discuss why observability, when treated as foundational, becomes the connective tissue between infrastructure, applications, security and user experience.
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•38:38
Feb 13, 2026

The Shift from AI Pilots to AI Infrastructure

As organizations move beyond experimentation, compute has become a deciding factor in whether AI delivers real value or stalls before production. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT VP Neil Anderson, NVIDIA VP Chris Marriott and Cisco VP Daniel McGinniss talk about how organizations are rethinking where AI runs, how it's secured and how value is measured.
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•51:21
Feb 13, 2026

Manufacturing at the EDGE: SCADA Instrumentation, Model Context Protocol and Agentic Design Patterns

Modern manufacturing is evolving towards data-centric, automated and intelligent systems that require contextualized operational data streaming from IoT-based edge devices converging with IT networks for adaptive real-time decision-making. MCP offers a structured approach to managing and interpreting diverse data streams, while SCADA systems serve as the core industrial instrumentation integrated with agentic methods and advanced inferencing to enhance manufacturing processes.
Blog
•Feb 13, 2026

Transform your security operations with Splunk Enterprise Security

Powering the SOC of the future with the market-leading SIEM. Learn how Splunk Enterprise Security empowers SOC efficiency with unified workflows across threat detection, investigation and response.
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•1:36
Feb 12, 2026

Splunk solution focus areas

Splunk Security

Splunk Security enables real-time detection, investigation, and response to threats, using machine learning and analytics to spot anomalies and potential breaches.

Splunk in the Advanced Technology Center

Cisco UCS and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition: Powering the Next Wave of Enterprise AI

By combining NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition with Cisco UCS servers, enterprises gain a powerful and scalable foundation for AI and visualization workloads.
WWT Research
•Oct 24, 2025

Cribl Foundation Lab

Cribl Stream is an observability pipeline tool living between any data source and any destination. These destinations can be systems of analysis (Splunk, Elastic, etc.) or systems of retention (S3 buckets, Data Lakes, etc.). Stream uses Sources, Destinations, Routes and Pipelines to move data coming from data sources, processes through its pipelines (group of functions) and sends the results to one or many destinations in the format that is best for the environment and its use cases.
Advanced Configuration Lab
•298 launches

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