Cisco acquires Splunk in $28 billion observability, AI and cybersecurity play
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said the two companies product lines were complementary and provide "full observability for the entire IT stack."

Data to decisions examines the enablement of data-driven decisions across organizations. Holistic, data-informed decisions require a multi-disciplinary approach that combines performance monitoring with traditional business intelligence and analytic technologies. In addition, data-driven decisions are increasingly delivered in the context of business applications rather than in separate, analytic interfaces.
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said the two companies product lines were complementary and provide "full observability for the entire IT stack."
Generative AI Now Assists capabilities from ServiceNow will be priced as add-ons by the seat unless you have a premium package. There will also be entitlements for generative AI "assists."
Oracle outlined a handful of MySQL HeatWave advances with the most notable being Lakehouse availability on Amazon Web Services as well as innovations that make the platform more autonomous.
Oracle futureproofed its database with AI vector search and large language (LLM) support in Oracle Database 23c as it melds generative AI applications with enterprise transactional data.
Oracle has big plans for its Cerner acquisition, but it has integration work ahead including moving a customer base to the cloud and rewriting applications with a little help from generative AI.
Oracle will operate and manage OCI services directly within Azure data centers in North America and Europe. The Oracle-Microsoft partnership is easy to understand: Both have common foes in AWS and Google Cloud.
Salesforce launched a rebuilt Data Cloud and Einstein 1 Platform that is now native to a unified metadata framework to go along with a series of product updates designed to make generative AI easier to implement.
SAS outlined its generative AI strategy that revolves around connecting its data science and analytics platform to a choice of large language models, focusing on "last mile" delivery of AI applications and focusing on industries
Oracle’s cloud revenue (IaaS and SaaS) was $4.6 billion, up 30% from a year ago.
With enterprise technology conference season here we're going to hear all kinds of names for generative AI services--not to mention rebranding.