Machine data-trained AI models provide predictive insights and proactive resilience
Boston, September 8, 2025 / prnewswire/ – Splunk .Conf -Cisco announced Cisco Data Fabric today. This is an innovative new architecture that enables organizations to use AI to harness the value of machine data. With Splunk Platform, Cisco Data Fabric is designed to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of processing machine data at scale, and to leverage it for AI applications, such as training custom AI models, power from agent workflows, or extracting multiple streams of both machine and business data and driving better decisions.
“Organisations everywhere are sitting in gold mines of machine data that are too complicated, tedious, and expensive to leverage AI to this day.” Jeet PatelPresident and Chief Product Officer of Cisco. “From sensor measurements and factory metrics to checking out system data and event updates from apps, servers, networks, and more, machine data drives business behavior. Sprank innovative data and analytics provides cloud data and analysis.
Cisco Data Fabric is dedicated to the AI era, allowing organizations to innovate faster, increase security and increase business agility. By consolidating and activating machine data from every corner of the enterprise, this framework provides a turnkey solution that reduces cost and complexity while overcoming the challenges of managing distributed data at scale.
“Our goal is to provide our customers with the fastest and safest path from data to action,” he said. Kamal HatiSVP and GM, Splunk, Cisco Company. “By embedding AI across the platform and adopting open standards, we don't just help organizations analyze information faster, we are predicting change, expanding innovation without unnecessary complexity, and enabling us to deliver digital services that are more resilient, adaptable and sensitive to our users' needs.”
Unlocks the machine data power of agent AI
Cisco Data Fabric transforms streams of data into actionable intelligence, accelerates customer decision-making, reduces operational risk, and drives fuel innovation. The framework's intelligent edge data management enables advanced data filtering, shaping, and layering, while powerful federation capabilities help correlate insights across different domains and provide near-real-time, end-to-end operational intelligence. A next-generation experience layer driven by the capabilities of AI assistants and agents allows organizations to achieve dramatic speeds in resolution, reduce management burdens, and allow teams to make faster decisions.
With the power of Cisco Data Fabric, organizations can:
- Manipulate machine data on an extreme scale
- Unified Intelligent Data Foundation: Simplify data transformation across edge, cloud, and on-premises, including Secops, Itops, Devops and Netops, into actionable insights in real-time, while optimizing cost and efficiency.
- Cross-domain real-time search and analysis: Quickly search and analyze where it exists via sources such as Amazon S3 (currently available), Apache Iceberg, Apache Iceberg, and more. Delta Lake (Spark), Snowflake, and Microsoft Azure intelligently route data to the most appropriate storage or analytics engine for your workload. Additional sources will be available in 2026.
- Flexible and open architecture: Adapt to multiple environments spanning on-premises and cloud deployments, including advanced compliance with open standards, plug-and-play integration, and self-service tools, and boost innovation without restrictions.
- Unlock your own data value
- Time series basic model (coming soon): Power enables advanced pattern analysis and temporal inference of time series data, advanced anomaly detection, prediction, and automated root cause analysis across the Cisco data fabric. Promote proactive operations, accelerate incident response, and turn machine data into actionable intelligence.
- Fuel for AI Innovation: Unique features such as Splunk Machine Data Lake provide the foundation for sustainable AI for both model training and enterprise analytics. Together with the Splunk AI Toolkit (formerly known as the Machine Learning Toolkit) and the Splunk Model Context Protocol Server, these innovations help to convert machine data into fuel sources for advanced AI capabilities.
- Unify the experiences of human and AI agents
- Cisco AI Canvas: Integrating with Splunk Cloud Platform, Cisco AI Canvas provides AI agents to coordinate analytics workflows and team collaboration workspaces. This new virtual warroom experience will help teams discover deeper insights, collaborate in real time, and take more decisive actions than ever before. Splunk users can access advanced research and visualization tools, easily collaborate with peers, and expand their findings with new knowledge objects, alerts and reports within a unified, intuitive interface.
- ai-native at every step: The Splunk platform includes built-in AI capabilities to drive unprecedented productivity, agility and innovation, from onboarding and data management to agent search and user experiences at every stage of the data lifecycle.
“Cisco Data Fabric addresses the key issues of today's AI-driven enterprises. The challenge is to quickly and safely unify the vast flow of mechanical data for continuous resilience,” he said. Archana VenkatramanSenior Research Director at Cloud Data Management, IDC. “By enabling a federated approach to eliminate data movement, we provide actionable solutions for organizations operating AI at scale. Focusing on real-time search, coupled with a repository of AI-enabled data, it offers concrete value by reducing complexity and time.
availability
- Cisco Data Fabric is built using the features of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform and is currently available. Future advances will be embedded in data management, federation, and AI as a whole. Additional features will be available until 2026.
- The Splunk AI Toolkit is now available and is available in a new 2026 hosted model.
- Replay S3 for Federated Analytics is now available October 2025 Crossing the Cisco Data Fabric.
- The basic model of time series is listed in the open source community Haggingface. November 2025.
- Cisco AI Canvas integration with Splunk and Splunk Machine Data Lake will be available in 2026.
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