Splunk rebuilds its platform around agents

Cisco Systems Inc.’s Splunk unit today unveiled a broad set of platform, security and observability enhancements intended to reposition the company as a data and governance foundation for the emerging “agentic enterprise.” Splunk executives said the announcements are a strategic overhaul rather than a routine product refresh. Splunk is adapting its platform for a world in which artificial intelligence agents generate far more telemetry than people, operate at machine speed and make decisions that can have immediate operational, financial and security consequences. “This is not just an incremental evolution or an additional bunch of features,” said Mangesh Pimpalkhare, senior vice president and general manager of Splunk Platform at Cisco. “We’ve reimagined Splunk so that customers can start to trust AI at scale.” The strategy spans three broad…