At Cisco Partner Summit, it was abundantly clear that building a Splunk practice is paramount to partner success. I had a great opportunity to have a quick chat with D. Stacy Betts and Kevin Murphy about partner opportunities to really bring to life the One Cisco portfolio to drive greater success for customers. The stronger together story for Cisco and Splunk goes beyond product integrations. It’s a chance for you to grow your practices and boost your skills. By engaging with both Cisco and Spl

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Hey everyone, we’re out here at Cisco Partner Summit and I ran into Stacy and Kevin and there’s been a lot of energy about building a Splunk practice and what are you hearing and what’s got people excited? >> Yeah. Well, I mean all week this week we’ve heard a lot about the importance of Splunk and Cisco’s overall one Cisco story >> and the importance of how it’s helping our customers solve some of the most difficult complex problems they have. And we’re hearing a lot about partners investing more with us. And so we’re asking partners to number one build a practice if you don’t have it and number two if you do build it bigger and better uh with Cisco and we think there’s a great opportunity for our partners. >> Absolutely. And so we’ve been talking about not only building the practice but some of the integrations that partners can do as well. What do you think on that? >> Yeah. Well, what I’m finding is we’ve got all sorts of partners working together in this ecosystem to bring to life what our customers most need uh relative to Cisco and Splunk coming together. So what you’re finding is vertical industry solutions uh various use cases we can look at that are going to just help customers be successful and that’s what it’s really been about this week is learning about that. >> Absolutely. And Kevin you lead the ISV ecosystem >> you know what is your perspective on what’s going on there. >> So I think there’s a ton of opportunity with us coming together with Cisco. Uh it opens up the door to a lot of additional ISVS. It also opens up avenues to bring joint solutions to market with a huge channel that you that Cisco has built. So, I’m really excited about all those opportunities and and the new technologies and capabilities that we can work on together. >> Yeah. So, the ISVS that are out there, where can I go get some more information about how to become a partner, build a practice, or even build an ISV integration? >> All you need to do is check out the link below. >> All right. Thanks so much. Appreciate it.