Cisco Full-Stack Observability (FSO)

How We Leveraged Splunk to Solve Real Network Challenges

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How We Leveraged Splunk to Solve Real Network Challenges

May is Observability Month—the perfect time to learn about Splunk and Observability. Find out more in our latest episode of “What’s new with Cisco U.?” (Scroll to the end of the blog to watch now!) As part of the Cisco Infrastructure Operations team, we provide the interactive labs that users run on Cisco U. and use in instructor-led courses through Cisco and Cisco Learning Partners. We currently run two data centers that contain the delivery…

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Building a New Service Offering around Cisco ThousandEyes: A Guide for Managed Service Providers

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Building a New Service Offering around Cisco ThousandEyes: A Guide for Managed Service Providers

A special shout-out and thank you to Russ Atkin for his thought leadership and invaluable insights on the service creation process, which inspired the writing of this blog.   In my previous blog, I explored how Cisco ThousandEyes empowers Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to deliver outstanding client experiences by providing unparalleled visibility into network and application performance. As we continue to delve deeper into the potential of leveraging ThousandEyes, this blog will attempt to provide…

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Bringing the Cisco AppDynamics + Splunk Better Together story to Cisco Live

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Bringing the Cisco AppDynamics + Splunk Better Together story to Cisco Live

When Cisco initially closed the acquisition of Splunk, we promised we would swiftly deliver more together, capitalizing on each company’s incredible products and skillsets to bring exponential value to our customers. This week at Cisco Live, I have the pleasure of helping showcase how Cisco AppDynamics and Splunk are making our Better Together vision a reality and how we are expanding Cisco Full-Stack Observability to an organizations’ entire enterprise. In less than three months since…

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Optimizing business velocity with Cisco Full-Stack Observability

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Optimizing business velocity with Cisco Full-Stack Observability

Fueling digital transformation success with cost and resource optimization over applications, workloads, and components Digital transformation comes with an irony that is not lost on the IT teams. Applications and the digital experiences they enable require cloud-based resources for which costs can easily spiral out of control. Worse, lack of visibility means that utilization of these resources can be difficult to accurately assess. This creates a conundrum. Fast, reliable application performance depends on sufficient allocation…

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Cisco Observability Platform is a game changer for digital-first organizations

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Cisco Observability Platform is a game changer for digital-first organizations

Providing customers with the observability platform they need to deliver unmatched and secure digital experiences aligned to business strategy and results.  Organizations have a pressing need for tools that can capture all the relevant telemetry data and enable the sharing of intelligence and insights across multiple IT teams. A 2023 whitepaper by IDC revealed that 56.5% organizations surveyed have more than 11 observability tools in use, with 10% using between 41 and 100 tools. This…

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Beyond visibility, there’s observability

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Beyond visibility, there’s observability

Organizations are shifting to observability over the entire application stack to achieve exceptional, secure, performant digital experiences Whether managing supply chains, transferring funds, delivering medical services, collaborating with geographically dispersed teams, or streaming the latest movies, today’s hyper-connected users expect highly personalized and secure digital experiences that work every time, everywhere. Applications are the face of nearly every modern organization as they deliver products or services. Reliance on cloud-enabled and modern applications means that business…

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Cisco Secure Application makes it easier than ever to secure your cloud native applications and sensitive data

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Cisco Secure Application makes it easier than ever to secure your cloud native applications and sensitive data

With Cisco Secure Application on the Cisco Observability Platform, customers have more flexibility and choice when it comes to tackling their most difficult security challenges. Managing an organization’s security posture is extraordinarily complex — new bad actors, exploits and threats are constantly bubbling up. Meanwhile, organizations have a deep responsibility for their customer and user data safety, as well as legal obligations for data handling from regulations like GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), HIPAA (Health…

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Rev Up to Recert: Network Assurance

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Rev Up to Recert: Network Assurance

Given my role in supporting technical education over the last 10 years, I’m often asked one question: “What should I be learning?” My answer: Follow the “A” technologies: APIs, automation, applications, and now artificial intelligence (AI). Given the recent emergence of observability as a capability for employability, the “A” I recommend to network engineers, DevOps practitioners, and IT professionals is assurance.   What is network assurance? For those new to assurance, its power lies in its…

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Making applications more sustainable with Cisco

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Making applications more sustainable with Cisco

Global greenhouse gas emissions in the tech sector are significant as they are on par or larger than that of the aviation industry. Building applications more sustainably and reducing cloud carbon footprint have become increasingly important as part of organizations’ operational goals. For instance, ebay aims to source 100% renewable electricity for all eBay-controlled data centers and offices by 2025. Organizations have started to practice green coding, with some even re-coding their applications with older programming…

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The Cisco Observability Platform is the right solution at the right time

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The Cisco Observability Platform is the right solution at the right time

Every enterprise needs visibility into its tech stack. Our platform, augmented by Cisco Partners, helps IT professionals select the right solutions for their specific needs. At Cisco AppDynamics, we live by one core belief: Full-stack observability (FSO) is the key to delivering amazing customer experiences. Visibility at every level of the technology stack is essential to rapidly identifying and mitigating problems before they impact end users. However, observability is also crucial to enhancing productivity, optimizing…

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