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Cisco AppDynamics Launches Business Transaction Insights in AppDy-
namics Cloud for Observability of Cloud-Native Applications on AWS

Cisco AppDynamics announced major updates to its cloud-
native observability solution AppDynamics Cloud. Business
transaction insights combines business transaction monitoring
with AppDynamics Cloud’s continuous-context experience.
This allows organizations to expand observability over cloud-
native applications correlated with business context across
their Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment and beyond. The
AIOps-derived insights enable teams to observe applications the
same way customers and end users experience them and quickly
take action to optimize performance and remediate issues in
near real-time. The new capabilities will initially support digital
services, cloud-native applications, and workloads on Amazon
Web Services (AWS). Cisco AppDynamics and AWS continue to
empower organizations across the entire IT estate on their journey
to full-stack observability. Modern cloud-native applications can native solutions, it’s critical to know that through innovations
be highly distributed and complex. Ops teams often have to rely such as business transaction insights, Cisco AppDynamics can
on siloed, domain-specific tools to collect and interpret massive support our cloud-native landscapes as well as our traditional
amounts of data generated by their technology stack during normal environments.” “With AppDynamics Cloud, we are reimagining
operations. As a result, they can struggle to deliver dependable the cloud-native observability market,” said Ronak Desai SVP/
digital experiences for end-user customers because they lack the GM Cisco AppDynamics and Cisco Full-Stack Observability.
correlated insights to identify how critical issues impact business “Cisco AppDynamics is enabling visibility of an organization’s
outcomes. With business transaction insights, teams can entire cloud-native landscape and generating insights based on
leverage multiple streams of data drawn from OpenTelemetryTM an intelligent relationship model. With the addition of business
and Amazon CloudWatch, all correlated to business context, and transaction insights to AppDynamics Cloud, IT teams can now act
then optimize digital experiences at scale. They generate AIOps- with the information needed to make business-critical decisions
driven alerts that allow teams to identify, prioritize, and resolve and break down the new siloes that exist across their cloud-
the most important issues that could impact the user experience native monitoring landscapes. We are helping customers realize
and the overall business. A Cisco AppDynamics survey of 1,150 the vision of Cisco Full-Stack Observability and bringing genuine
IT professionals revealed that 71% believe their organization will visibility, insight, and actions to their entire IT environment.” “As
need to allocate resources toward observability of cloud-native organizations move their business to the cloud, it is critical to use
applications and infrastructure. The addition of this new capability solutions that enable them to understand their cloud environment
in AppDynamics Cloud gives technologists the simplicity and and quickly identify meaningful data to optimize the customer
insights they need to streamline operations, increase business experience,” said Chris Grusz, General Manager of Worldwide ISV
value of AWS products and services, and maximize current and Alliances and AWS Marketplace, AWS. “With the introduction of
future investments in areas including Kubernetes®, microservices, business transaction insights for AppDynamics Cloud, customers
and other AWS infrastructure. “Business transaction monitoring can confidently evolve modern applications while taking better
is at the heart of our application performance monitoring advantage of the agility, scalability and innovative cloud services
strategy,” said Vincent Lamonde, Director, Cloud Operations, that AWS provides.”
Insurity. “As we innovate for the future and develop new cloud-

Cisco Hails Largest-Ever Quarterly Revenue

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins stated a trend of improved supply chains unshipped hardware”. Cisco has spent several years transitioning
continued into its fiscal Q1 2023 (calendar Q3), which helped from one-time hardware sales to recurring software-based. Total
deliver the largest quarterly revenue in the company’s history. On software revenue increased 5 per cent year-on-year and software
Cisco’s earnings call, Robbins noted a redesign of many products subscription 11 per cent. “Our business model is resilient with 43
and action taken over several quarters to alleviate supply chain per cent of our revenue now recurring, which is very important as
issues yielded positive results. “We were encouraged by what we navigate the current macro environment,” Robbins said. Cisco
we were seeing with modest improvement in certain component posted $10.3 billion in product-related revenue, an increase of 8
availability, as shortages continued to ease from last quarter.” per cent, though services was flat on $3.4 billion. Overall revenue
He noted the easing supply constraints was “now releasing of $13.6 billion was up 6 per cent, while net income of $2.7 billion
software subscriptions that were sitting in backlog connecting to was down 10 per cent.

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