Gigamon announced a strategic partnership with Splunk, a Cisco company, to help enterprises unlock greater value from distributed data.
By combining the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline with Splunk’s Federated Search, a core component of the Cisco Data Fabric powered by the Splunk Cloud Platform, organizations can access and analyze high-value telemetry wherever it resides, eliminating the need to centralize or duplicate data.
Together, Gigamon and Splunk eliminate this tradeoff by enabling a more efficient approach to accessing, managing, and operationalizing distributed data.
The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline transforms raw network traffic into high-fidelity, actionable telemetry by extracting and enriching application metadata across North-South and East-West traffic flows. Splunk Federated Search extends this value by enabling teams to query and analyze distributed datasets in place, delivering unified visibility across environments without unnecessary data movement.
“Organizations today need deeper, more connected visibility across increasingly distributed environments,” said Seth Brickman, vice president of Product Management for the Splunk Platform, Cisco. “By combining Splunk’s Federated Search capabilities with network telemetry from Gigamon, we’re helping customers gain richer operational and security insights while reducing the cost and complexity of managing large volumes of data. Together, we’re delivering a more flexible and AI-ready approach to data management.”
“As data volumes continue to grow across hybrid cloud and AI-driven environments, organizations need a smarter way to manage telemetry without increasing cost or complexity,” said Srinivas Chakravarty, vice president, cloud ecosystem, at Gigamon. “Together, the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline and Splunk Federated Search help customers transform raw network traffic into high-fidelity, actionable telemetry and access it wherever it resides. This approach reduces unnecessary data movement and ingestion costs while improving visibility and enabling earlier threat detection across security and observability workflows.”
At the core of this partnership is a commitment to customer choice. Organizations can determine where their data is stored, including Splunk Cloud Platform indexes, Amazon S3, or Azure Blob Storage, and other third-party repositories, while maintaining seamless, federated access across all environments. This flexibility allows enterprises to balance performance, cost, compliance, and data sovereignty requirements without sacrificing visibility or analytics capabilities.
How the Combined Gigamon and Splunk Solution Helps Organizations:
- Gain deeper visibility across encrypted, lateral, and hybrid cloud traffic
- Access distributed data without centralized movement or duplication
- Reduce cost and complexity through intelligent telemetry filtering and enrichment
- Enable earlier threat detection and faster security investigations
- Strengthen compliance readiness with scalable monitoring and reporting
The Gigamon Federated Search App includes pre-built processing pipelines for Splunk Edge and Ingest Processor, federated search templates, and unified dashboards that simplify how organizations analyze and operationalize distributed telemetry.
By integrating the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline with Splunk Edge and Ingest Processors, customers can process, route, filter, and enrich telemetry closer to the source, reducing unnecessary data movement while ensuring that only high-value telemetry is stored, searched, and analyzed.
The solution is available now to joint customers.
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