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Cisco Launches AppDynamics Cloud to Enable

the Delivery of Exceptional Digital Experiences

Cisco announced the launch of
AppDynamics Cloud at Cisco Live, the
premiere networking and security event.
AppDynamics Cloud enables delivery
of exceptional digital experiences by
correlating telemetry data from across
any cloud environment at massive scale.
It leverages cloud-native observability to
remediate application performance issues
with business context and insights-driven
actions. “AppDynamics Cloud delivers
power and usability in a single, intuitive
interface. It puts the focus where it needs
to be—on 360-degree visibility and insights,
and the ability to take action that leads
to extraordinary application experiences
every time,” said Liz Centoni, EVP, Chief
Strategy Officer, GM of Applications. IT stacks, multiple clouds, SaaS services, service—has to be firing on all cylinders
AppDynamics Cloud maximizes business and security solutions. Traditional because even the slightest delay or
outcomes and customer experiences monitoring approaches break down in this hiccup can have wide-ranging impact on
by continuously optimizing cloud-native vastly complex and dynamic ecosystem. everything from manufacturing operations
applications. It accelerates detection and AppDynamics Cloud seamlessly ingests the to customers’ ability to buy products online.
resolution of performance issues, before deluge of metrics, events, logs, and traces It’s imperative to have complete visibility
they impact the business or the brand, (MELT) generated in this environment— into every corner of the operation to make
with intelligent operations. Investment including network, databases, storage, sure things are running smoothly, which
protection is derived from continuous containers, security, and cloud services— is usually easier said than done.” Vincent
data integrations with OpenTelemetry ™ to make sense of the current state of the Lamonde, Director of Cloud Operations,
standards and technology partnerships entire IT stack all the way to the end user. Insurity, “We’re a leader in the insurance
with cloud solutions and providers. The Actions can then be taken to optimize technology market, with more than 80%
platform enables collaboration across costs, maximize transaction revenue, of our customers operating within the
teams including DevOps, site reliability and secure user and organizational data. cloud. Our clients might have hundreds of
engineers (SREs), and other key business “Built from the ground up with cloud-native customers they’re supporting who expect
stakeholders to achieve common observability, AppDynamics Cloud is about our system to work flawlessly all the time.
benchmarks like service-level objectives real outcomes, so you can fix issues when If it takes significant time to identify and
(SLOs) and organizational KPIs. While they arise—or even before they happen— resolve an issue, it could impact their
many organizations still run their mission- and ensure digital services offer exactly business and the customer experience.
critical and revenue-generating systems what users want,” said Centoni. Current We are bound to maintain service level
with traditional applications, modern AppDynamics customers can upgrade agreements (SLAs), so finding new ways to
business apps are increasingly built using to AppDynamics Cloud and leverage identify and resolve in less time can make
DevOps initiatives and must support their existing application performance a world of difference.” Peter Hvedstrup
distributed architectures and services. This monitoring (APM) agents, or feed both Jensen, Head of IT Operations, Velliv, “As
pandemic-accelerated trend has spawned solutions concurrently. AppDynamics a pension provider, it’s imperative that
an end-to-end experience revolution Cloud supports cloud-native, managed every system, component and application
among consumers and end users, and Kubernetes environments on Amazon Web work flawlessly. Our customers shouldn’t
hybrid work is contributing exponential Services (AWS), with future expansion to have to wait to find the information they
momentum. To deliver the consistent, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, need or repeatedly visit an application
reliable digital experiences that consumers and other cloud providers. Tim Masey, that’s unexpectedly not available. A cloud-
and end users now demand, IT teams Carhartt’s Vice President, IT Infrastructure only architecture can be very complex and
must monitor and manage a dynamic & Security, “The apparel industry is more intricate. We needed greater visibility and
set of application dependencies across complex, dynamic, and competitive than control over every aspect of the environment
a mix of infrastructure, microservices, ever. Every aspect of your operation—from because even an hour of downtime will
containers, and APIs using home-grown procurement through sales and customer negatively impact our customers.”

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