AppDynamics has updated its advanced monitoring and observability solution for SAP environments, achieving a new SAP certification for integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. AppDynamics provides real-time insights into SAP and non-SAP performance metrics, ensuring smooth operations and compliance. In May 2018, AppDynamics launched its industry-first Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) agent, followed by newly released functionality on a quarterly cadence.

Cisco is expanding its strategic partnership with Microsoft by offering AppDynamics as a hosted solution on Microsoft Azure — providing more flexibility and choice to customers. This article originally appeared on the Cisco Executives blog. I’m pleased to announce that Cisco AppDynamics is now available on Microsoft Azure hosted in North America for customers and partners globally.

DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) from Broadcom is a comprehensive solution for monitoring an organization’s entire IT infrastructure from a single platform. DX UIM provides IT administrators and operations teams with a centralized view of their infrastructure to ensure availability and performance of servers, network devices, storage systems, virtualization environments, applications, and cloud services.

This blog examines how smart retailers are blending the latest technology with their traditional brick-and-mortar stores to deliver outstanding customer experiences.

If your business has predictable compute workloads and wants to save on Azure spend, Azure Reserved Instances can make you the FinOps department’s new favorite person. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Before we tell you how you can start saving on your cloud spend, let’s define a few terms.

n our previous exploration of The Punchcard Paradigm, we traced the roots of modern compliance practices back to the early days of computing. We saw how the physical constraints of punchcards shaped programming practices and how those practices lingered long after the technology had evolved. Now, let’s dive deeper into why modern compliance is more critical than ever in today’s digital landscape.

Cloud migration is the process of moving your infrastructure, applications, and data to the cloud. While the potential benefits—like cost savings, scalability, and modernization—are significant, the risks are just as high if you don’t have a solid plan in place. Without clear strategies, you could face unexpected costs, technical challenges, and security issues.

Prometheus and its querying language, PromQL, have several functions that perform various calculations on their data. One of the most widely used functions is rate(); however, it is also one of the most misunderstood.

If cost optimization is your only reason for adopting Kubernetes and containers, you might be in for a rude surprise — many companies find that costs increase after moving to Kubernetes. Even companies who adopt Kubernetes for other reasons, like time-to-market advantages, should follow basic cost control best practices to stay within the budget. Optimizing cloud costs related to running Kubernetes doesn’t have to involve trade-offs for performance or availability.