Gary Steele's Blog Posts

Gary Steele is Cisco’s President, Go-to-Market, leading a unified organization across Cisco’s Sales, Partner, and Global Marketing teams to accelerate customer outcomes and drive growth across the enterprise. In addition, Gary leads Splunk at Cisco. A highly regarded technology executive with over 30 years of experience, he has a proven track record of successfully scaling SaaS operations and growing multi-billion dollar global enterprises. Prior to joining Splunk, Gary was the founding CEO of Proofpoint, where he led the company’s growth from an early-stage start-up to a leading, publicly traded security-as-a-service provider. He previously served as CEO of Portera and held various leadership roles at Sybase, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Gary has also served as a member of the board of directors of Upwork, a talent freelancing platform, since 2018. He holds a B.S. from Washington State University.

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A New Day for Data: Cisco and Splunk

Splunk is now officially part of Cisco, bringing the full power of the network together with market-leading security and observability solutions.

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How Splunk and Cisco will Keep Customers at the Center

Together, Cisco and Splunk can unlock many more opportunities to help securely connect everything all while building a safer and more resilient digital world.

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Splunk and Cisco Unite To Accelerate Digital Resilience as One of the Leading Global Software Companies

Splunk is taking the next step in our journey to realize our vision for the future of security and observability by joining forces with Cisco.

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Bringing More Flexibility, Choice and Value to Customers in the Cloud

Announcing Splunk’s new strategic partnership with Microsoft to build Splunk’s cloud solutions natively on Microsoft Azure.

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Building a Safer and More Resilient Digital World

Splunk CEO, Gary Steele, reflects on his first year and the moments that have shown how Splunk provides mission-critical value to security, IT and engineering teams globally.

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What I Learned from Meeting 100 Customers in 100 Days

Splunk CEO Gary Steele shares his top takeaways from his first 100 customer conversations, including what he learned about the challenges organizations are facing and how Splunk can help them put their data to use.