Cisco recently launched the Cisco 360 Partner Program to accelerate value and innovation. I recently spent some time with Ron Penna to chat about the program launch and how Splunk partners can leverage the full portfolio of both Splunk Partnerverse and the Cisco 360 Partner Program for access to valuable benefits.

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hey everybody we’re out here at Cisco partner Summit and I’ve been talking to Ron who’s done MSP forever now what are you hearing from the partners out here Ron the partners are really excited about the new Cisco 360 program and our Splunk and Cisco respective programs coming together so we’ve gotten a lot of questions you know what the future of the program looks like uh we did hear a bunch of details yesterday at at the keynote that they’re going to be bringing those two programs together into a single program uh in the relatively near future um but there were a lot of questions around you know how do I start transacting if I’m a Splunk partner how do I start transacting with Cisco and vice versa so what we’re asking our partners to do right now in the near term is join both programs so so if you’re a Cisco partner we ask that you join the spunk program we made some good progress there in terms of making it easy for you to just go to the website click through our partner general terms and and kick that off uh it normally we would trigger a due diligence process at that point but if you’re a Cisco partner we’ll just we we forgive that because you’ve already gone through that process with Cisco so once you’re in the partner program you’ll have the ability to transact with both Cisco and Spar um we’ve also been getting a lot of questions from like our managed service providers because they’re really excited about the product set that are sets that are coming together for both companies so I think it’s a really great opportunity as we start to look at things like the Cisco powered program and how we grade and how we incent Partners you know for the services but also take them on the journey you know that they go no matter what they where they are in their business process whether they say may type an xdr practice and they want to start to build that out with some Advanced security practices with Splunk or if they’re a Splunk partner you know how do they get started selling Cisco software and Hardware so it it’s it’s been a really uh positive experience from both my my perspective personally as well as the partners they seem to be really excited about where we’re going right on so this convergence of partners program where can I go get some more information about all that it’s all been Consolidated on both the Cisco and the Splunk partner sites so if you go to either of those sites there’ll be a heading now announcing that we brought the programs together so you can just click through that and it’ll take you down whichever path you need to go to become a partner in the respective programs fantastic thanks for all that information Ron thank you [Music]