joining us is chuck robbins and gary steele.oing to be a part of cisco's executive leadership team. gentlemen, nice to have you. >> great to be here. >> thanks for having us. >> all right, it's part of the company now, so you have some other products out there in security offerings, for example. i think app dynamics, thousand eyes. how do you sort of address potential overlaps, redundancies? how do you go to market now with your product portfolio, given the ones you previously had and what you now have? >> first of all, thanks for having us. it's -- we're in a situation where we have very little -- ref zero overlap in security. we have basically zero. we have slight overlap in what's called observability, which is basically monitoring the infrastructure for application performance and those kinds of things and we've been working really hard over the last six months to address those and build an integration plan. gary, you may want to talk about it. we're going to move the cisco assets into splunk on that particular part of the b

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chuck robbins is the chairman and ceo of cisco systems, he spoke to my colleague tadhg enright earliereal—time insights to all of our customers so that they can detect cyber security threats in real—time. as we know, the bad actors all around the world, as they get their hands on al and they are able to actually be more effect of with their cyber—attack strategies we, as an industry, have to enable our customers to be able to respond faster and this splunk acquisition is at the heart of allowing us to do that for our customers.- that for our customers. does that for our customers. does that suggest _ that for our customers. does that suggest that _ that for our customers. does that suggest that in - that for our customers. does that suggest that in this - that for our customers. does that suggest that in this ai i that suggest that in this ai future packing risks are going to become an even greater threat. because, of course, they have been climbing for many, many years now. what ai does for the — many, many years now. what ai does for the bad _ many, many years now. what ai does for t

i'm pleased to say that joining me now we have the cisco ceo, chunk -- chuck robbins, and former splunkeo, gary steele. number one, congratulations. number two, let's talk about the timeline. the deal was only announced in september and when you think about the appetite for these deals coming through and getting blocked, how were you able to secure approval so quickly? chuck: primarily, it was gary's charm. [laughter] hats off to our legal team, who we think did an amazing job just providing clarity. it's reflective of the fact that we didn't have a lot of overlap in the portfolios. two other things, i think there is a general understanding, we try to help the regulators understand that from a cyber perspective this would be good for customers. it also speaks to the reputation both companies have with governments around the world. anything to add? gary: i think that sums it up. manus: gary, since you are the charming one, according to chuck, do you think that the signals that scrutiny is lessening a little bit or is it about specific factors around this deal? gary: i think it was relate