They want so hard to be a software company, and they already have experience with highly inflated priced products.
Their real target is probably trying to offer this built in to meraki like products as a one stop shop. I could see them finally burning their monitoring product in a fire and replacing it with splunk and grafana then selling it as an all cloud solution. At least the intent, we know Cisco's track record for integrating acquisitions.
They want so hard to be a software company, and they already have experience with highly inflated priced products.
Their real target is probably trying to offer this built in to meraki like products as a one stop shop. I could see them finally burning their monitoring product in a fire and replacing it with splunk and grafana then selling it as an all cloud solution. At least the intent, we know Cisco's track record for integrating acquisitions.