About
Cisco Systems was founded in December 1984 in San Francisco by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner and is headquartered in San Jose, California (per Wikipedia, secondary). Chuck Robbins has been CEO since 2015-07-26 (per Wikipedia). FY2025 revenue 63.3B in August 2026 and $9.3B in AI-infrastructure orders in fiscal 2026 (Wikipedia, secondary).
Products and AI
- Networking, security and observability; owns Splunk (per Wikipedia: announced 2023-09-21, $28B, completed 2024-03-18; not checked against a primary source).
- Splunk Agent Observability (formerly Galileo): see galileo.ai and agent-evals-and-observability.
Timeline
- 2026-04-09: Cisco announced intent to acquire Galileo (AI agent observability), expected to close in Q4 of fiscal 2026. The Cisco blog page as fetched states completion on 2026-05-22; the Splunk page gives no dates.
- 2025-08: 221 job cuts announced (Wikipedia).
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco (secondary, accessed 2026-10-05)
- https://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-announces-the-intent-to-acquire-galileo (accessed 2026-10-05)
- https://www.splunk.com/en_us/about-splunk/acquisitions/galileo.html (accessed 2026-10-01)
Open items
- Rename date of Galileo to Splunk Agent Observability not sourced; Cisco’s own AI products not covered.