This article originally appeared on the Cisco Executive Platform blog.
I’m pleased to announce that Cisco AppDynamics is now available on Microsoft Azure hosted in North America for customers and partners globally. Cisco’s strategic partnership with Microsoft means you can look forward to a rapid pace of observability innovations from AppDynamics and Splunk, a Cisco company, coming to Azure later this year.
Optimize application performance on Microsoft Azure
I speak frequently with our customers and partners—it’s the part of my job I most enjoy— and over the past year, I’ve heard an increasing number of requests for more flexibility to use AppDynamics SaaS on Azure. Many organizations use Azure as part of their multi-cloud strategy, while other organizations rely on Azure for regional deployments to comply with data residency and industry-specific requirements. Plus, some enterprises in key industries require Azure for competitive reasons.
AppDynamics delivers observability and business insights at scale
AppDynamics SaaS on Azure supports organizations’ observability strategies at scale with their preferred cloud provider. We know comprehensive observability across all domains and application infrastructure is critical. I wrote previously about how organizations must meet the sky-high expectations of the application generation, which expects intuitive, personalized, seamless, and secure digital experiences.
AppDynamics enables organizations to deliver exceptional digital experiences while improving business resiliency. It delivers comprehensive Application Performance Management (APM), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), SAP solution monitoring and observability, network intelligence, and contextualized insights correlated with key business metrics for applications running in hybrid and self-hosted environments.
Cisco and Microsoft expand strategic partnership
Cisco and Microsoft are redefining digital transformation across network and hybrid environments. With Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk, AppDynamics is now part of a more extensive portfolio of Splunk Observability offerings, so you can observe and secure your applications across any environment to optimize business outcomes.
Together, we continue to expand our partnership with Microsoft. You can look forward to a rapid pace of observability innovations enabling full-stack observability capabilities from AppDynamics and Splunk, a Cisco company, coming to Azure later this year.
Ready for AppDynamics on Azure?
If you’re among those eager for full-stack observability with AppDynamics on Azure, please check out our free trial and contact your partner or sales representative. Stay tuned for more innovations with Microsoft.
Ronak Desai is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco AppDynamics and Full-Stack Observability and is responsible for leading the overall AppDynamics strategy and operations and driving operational efficiency and delivery, as well as helping Cisco in achieving its vision for Full-Stack Observability.
Prior to joining AppDynamics, Ronak was SVP of Cisco’s Cloud Networking Engineering organization, where he spearheaded major strategy and technical shifts across Cisco’s networking portfolio of products and services, including ACI to ACI Anywhere, 400G offerings, Cloud APIC, Nexus Dashboard and more. Ronak has held additional engineering leadership roles at Insieme Networks — which was acquired by Cisco in December of 2013 — where he was responsible for the development and architecture for the ACI controller and Nexus 9000, Hybrid cloud solutions. He helped drive the development of NX-OS, Nexus 7000, MDS9000 and SAN-OS (the pre-cursor to NX-OS).
Ronak lives in Oakland, California, and enjoys hiking and mountain biking. He holds 50 patents, many of which are currently embedded in the solutions Cisco provides to address the dynamic needs of worldwide customers and technology partners every day.
