Cisco moves AppDynamics to the cloud, rolls out two security, networking development tools. Cisco is taking aim at better controlling the performance and development of core applications with a new AppDynamics cloud service and open-source development tools. AppDynamics Cloud is a cloud-native service designed to let enterprises observe applications and take action to remediate performance problems. Available by the end of June, the service is built to observe distributed and dynamic cloud-native applications at scale, wrote chief marketing officer of Cisco AppDynamics, Eric Schou in a blog about the new offering. AppDynamics Cloud is built on a foundation that embraces OpenTelemetry, an emerging standard for data collection that reduces friction between service owners and site reliability engineers, DevOps and developers enabling teams to visualize and measure application performance from multiple data sources collaboratively, Schou wrote. AppDynamics Cloud ingests metrics, events, logs, and traces generated from the enterprise environment—including network, databases, storage, containers, security, and cloud services—to make sense of the current state of the entire IT stack all the way to the end user. Actions can then be taken to optimize costs, maximize transaction revenue, and secure user and organizational data, Schou stated. AppDynamics Cloud supports cloud-native, managed Kubernetes environments on Amazon Web Services (AWS), with future expansion to Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and other cloud providers. AppDynamics customers can upgrade to AppDynamics Cloud and use their existing application performance monitoring (APM) agents, or feed both solutions concurrently. Currently the AppDynamics performance-management platform uses a series of agents and controllers to monitor the performance of application code, runtime, and behavior. Agents are deployed across the enterprise, from devices to containers and host application locations. The system uses AI and machine learning to correlate information from across different domains to better understand application performance and infrastructure dependencies and quickly identify problems. The system also supports analytics to help IT teams understand why things are not working optimally and to predict when problems will occur. Cisco also unveiled a development tools, available now, that promise faster application development cycles, and let companies build stronger modern application connectivity, security, and observability. The first, Panoptica, lets developers and engineers provide cloud-native security from application development to runtime. It offers a single interface for comprehensive container, serverless, API, service mesh, and Kubernetes security, it scales across multiple clusters with an agentless architecture, and integrates with CI/CD tools and language frameworks across multiple clouds. The idea is to let developers embed security-centric or -conscious decisions earlier in the software development lifecycle, Cisco stated. The second tool, Calisti, is an Istio-based service-mesh manager that lets developers build complex connectivity, lifecycle management, and microservice security within multi-cloud environments. It enables developers to inject application traffic loads, errors or faults to see what their impact would be on availability and performance, Cisco stated. That way they can see what needs to be changed or refined before the application goes live. Related content news Hitachi Vantara launches unified storage platform Virtual Storage Platform One provides on-premises and cloud storage of both structured and unstructured data. By Andy Patrizio Apr 26, 2024 2 mins Enterprise Storage Data Center analysis Extreme demos AI-based network assistant Extreme AI Expert can answer network questions, troubleshoot operations, and create alerts for conditions such as network degradation or Wi-Fi dead spots. By Michael Cooney Apr 25, 2024 4 mins Network Management Software news Cradlepoint unveils 5G SASE platform for mobile, distributed environments NetCloud SASE integrates cellular SD-WAN and security capabilities into a cloud-based platform to secure and mitigate risk across managed and unmanaged devices. By Denise Dubie Apr 24, 2024 3 mins 5G SASE SD-WAN analysis IBM drops $6.4B for HashiCorp and its multicloud automation technology HashiCorp's automation technology will fit into IBM’s Red Hat, watsonx, data security, IT automation and consulting businesses. By Michael Cooney Apr 24, 2024 3 mins Data Center Automation Network Management Software Cloud Computing PODCASTS VIDEOS RESOURCES EVENTS NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe