Expanded NVIDIA partnership enables Splunk to bring agentic AI to sensitive machine data

At the .conf26 conference in Denver, Splunk announced an expanded partnership with Nvidia. The new Cisco AI POD for Splunk allows running agentic AI workloads on sensitive machine data in own infrastructure without uploading it to the cloud.

• Cisco AI POD for Splunk combines Splunk software, Cisco infrastructure, Nvidia accelerators
• Available models: Cisco Deep Time Series, Google Gemma 4, OpenAI GPT-OSS 20B, later Nvidia Nemotron
• Targets government and regulated industries with data sovereignty requirements
• Machine data is about 55% of global data, per Splunk estimate