Qumulo has announced a strategic partnership with Cisco to deliver a unified data platform spanning edge, core, and cloud for enterprise organizations with a keen focus on enabling enterprise-wide observability. The partnership combines Qumulo’s Data Platform with Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) to help enterprises consolidate decades of stranded file and object data and unlock its value for AI, analytics, and observability. The partnership creates a single, software-defined data fabric that scales from edge environments to exabyte-scale data centers and across all major public clouds. The initial focus is on two critical enterprise workloads: Unified Platform for Splunk Observability Cloud: Qumulo’s Data Platform natively integrates with Splunk Observability Cloud, streaming OpenTelemetry directly into observability pipelines. Enterprises can deploy Splunk Observability Cloud at scale on Cisco UCS systems, spanning modular compute, high-performance all-flash, dense hybrid flash, and cost-effective HDD UCS platforms. This turnkey approach simplifies deployment and creates a secure and reliable foundation for cybersecurity, situational awareness, and unified visibility and real-time troubleshooting across all environments. Unlocking Trapped Data for AI: The joint solution enables the consolidation of billions of files and petabytes-to-exabytes of unstructured data into a single, globally consistent network-attached namespace. This eliminates decades of stranded data, giving AI systems complete and instant access to the information needed for more accurate models and better outcomes. Key workloads and data include medical imaging, signals intelligence, autonomous driving telemetry, life sciences research, geospatial mapping and imagery, video surveillance, and enterprise document management. When enterprise data is unified onto Qumulo and Cisco UCS, the Qumulo Data Platform natively streams OpenTelemetry data directly into Splunk Observability Cloud, which is also OpenTelemetry-native, helping strengthen enterprise data ownership. This not only creates a turnkey foundation for cybersecurity, situational awareness, and enterprise observability, it enriches the observability dataset. Organizations benefit from a stronger security posture through Splunk Observability Cloud’s visibility into real-time troubleshooting to drive faster anomaly detection, helping strengthen resilience against threats to sovereign data.