Powering Cisco’s multi-cloud foundation
Isovalent delivers the networking, security, and observability platform at the core of Cisco's multicloud architecture.
Enterprises that trust Isovalent
- Adobe
- Bloomberg
- Cigna
- Comcast
- Confluent
- Databricks
- G Research
- IBM
- Imagine Learning
- JPMC
- Lockheed Martin
- Merck KGaA
- Nationwide
- Northwestern Mutual
- Palantir
- Roche
- S&P Global
- Sony
- Swiss Life
- Workday
Hear from our customers
Hector Monsalve - Roche Quote
“We increased network performance and observability thanks to Hubble — bringing the firewall closer to our workloads.”
Hector Monsalve, Platform Engineer, Roche
Nimisha Mehta - Confluent Quote
“We went from guessing what’s wrong to fixing issues instantly.”
Nimisha Mehta, Senior Engineer, Confluent
Why Cisco chose Isovalent
Isovalent was built by a team of VMware and Red Hat SDN veterans, bringing deep experience from the platforms that defined modern software defined networking. That DNA enabled the team to co create and pioneer the use of eBPF, shaping a new foundation for how infrastructure is secured, observed, and connected. Capabilities that were once limited to the largest hyperscalers were brought to the broader market and advanced at a pace not seen before. Cilium, Hubble, and Tetragon, all born from Isovalent, became the de facto standard for cloud native networking and security.
Jeetu Patel - Cisco
“Imagine in today's distributed environment of applications, virtual machines, containers and cloud assets, having security controls with total visibility, without hindering networking and application performance. The combination of Cisco and Isovalent will make this a reality.”
Jeetu Patel - President & Chief Product Officer at Cisco
Tom Gillis - Cisco
“As we got to know Isovalent, every meeting reinforced the strength of their vision and the exceptional talent within. We realized Cisco needed to make a larger investment, we wanted to own this platform.”
Tom Gillis - SVP & GM, Cisco Security Business Group
Powering Cisco’s multi-cloud network fabric
Cloud expansion unlocked speed and scale but introduced fragmentation and risk. Security must now be native to the infrastructure. Cisco unifies identity, policy, networking, and observability within a single foundation across datacenter and cloud environments. Built on the cloud native architecture pioneered by Isovalent and the team behind Cilium, this approach fuses security and observability into the network while lowering cost, security risk and operational overhead.
Connectivity
provides the programmable network fabric that underpins Cisco’s Hybrid Mesh Firewall.
Security & compliance
brings zero-trust enforcement and automated policy control directly into workloads and onto smart switches.
Observability
powers Cisco’s unified telemetry and AI-driven insights across applications, networks, and runtime environments.
Recognized leadership
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure picks Cilium as the most scalable and performant container networking in the Cloud
Amazon AWS
AWS picks Cilium for Networking & Security on EKS Anywhere
Google
Google chooses Cilium in Datapath V2 for GKE and Anthos
Our story
Watch the Isovalent Documentary
Watch the story behind eBPF, Cilium, and the vision that led to Cisco’s acquisition of Isovalent. Hear directly from the founders and Cisco executives on how this acquisition is reshaping the future of networking, observability, and security.