{"id":228733,"date":"2017-01-25T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/?p=228733"},"modified":"2017-01-25T14:35:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:35:08","slug":"cisco-buys-appdynamics-for-usd-3-7-billion-to-search-for-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/cisco-buys-appdynamics-for-usd-3-7-billion-to-search-for-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Buys AppDynamics for USD 3.7 Billion to Search for Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"post-thumbnail\" href=\"\/manufacturer\/cisco\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'image1');\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-228763 alignright\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture.png\" alt=\"capture\" width=\"187\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture.png 187w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/01\/Capture-150x84.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a> January 24, 2017, <a href=\"\/manufacturer\/cisco\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'cisco');\">Cisco<\/a> announced that it agreed to buy AppDynamics Inc. for $3.7 billion dollars to expand its core networking business. This is Cisco&#8217;s largest deal in the past recent years since it bought the security company Sourcefire for $2.7 billion dollars in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>AppDynamics is a leading software company that manages and analyzes applications. Cisco announced to buy AppDynamics just the day before AppDynamics was set to launch its long-planned IPO.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The fact that they were in their IPO process represented a window where we needed to make a decision.&#8221; Cisco&#8217;s Salvagno said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-228773 aligncenter\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/01\/connect-20333_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"connect-20333_960_720\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/01\/connect-20333_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/01\/connect-20333_960_720-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/01\/connect-20333_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/01\/connect-20333_960_720-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>AppDynamics will become part of Cisco&#8217;s Internet of Things (IoT) unit and will be able to provide intelligence from the network through applications said Rowan Trollop, Cisco&#8217;s head of IoT and its applications business group.<\/p>\n<p>This acquisition is expected to finish by Cisco&#8217;s third quarter of the fiscal year 2017 with a mix of cash and equity. Cisco has been trying to move into the cloud business to increase its competitiveness, I believe this acquisition might bolster their effort in the near future. We look forward to seeing how their future strategy will shift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 24, 2017, Cisco announced that it agreed to buy AppDynamics Inc. for $3.7 billion dollars to expand its core networking business. This is Cisco&#8217;s largest deal in the past recent years since it bought the security company Sourcefire for $2.7 billion dollars in 2013. AppDynamics is a leading software company that manages and analyzes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1221,1217],"tags":[7163,7613],"class_list":["post-228733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business-voip","category-voip-news","tag-voip-news","tag-voip-news-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228803,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228733\/revisions\/228803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}