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AppDynamics Announces AppSphere 2016

AppDynamics announced its third annual AppSphere user conference.

Taking place at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Nov. 14-18, the conference will bring together more than 2,000 people expected to register and explore how to redefine business performance in the era of digital transformation.

“Companies across every major industry are redefining their businesses through digital transformations,” said David Wadhwani, President and CEO, AppDynamics. “At AppSphere, attendees will learn from world-class speakers, industry leaders and disruptors how to redefine their business performance for this new digital era.”

AppSphere is designed for technical and business attendees to gain actionable best practices for powering digital transformation initiatives with real-time insights into application performance, user experience, and business outcomes. And this AppSphere, AppDynamics will introduce its newest innovation.

“Our attendance at AppSphere last year gave us the head start we needed to hit the ground running when we began our AppDynamics implementation,” said Bill Hineline, director of Information Technology, United Airlines. “As a result, we have been able to drive faster implementation and positively influence greater levels of tool adoption. We will definitely be back this year.”

Event highlights include:

- Over 70 technical training sessions, product deep dives, hands-on labs, and case study discussions from customer peers and AppDynamics product experts.

- Industry leaders such as Capital One, IBM and United Airlines will provide insight into how they’re enabling critical applications and providing real-time insights to drive business outcomes.

- AppDynamics President and CEO, David Wadhwani’s keynote session will highlight the technological disruption behind today’s software-defined businesses and AppDynamics’ vision for how CIOs can transform their organizations from servicing the business to driving the business.

- First ever opportunity to become certified through newly introduced AppDynamics professional certification program.

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AppDynamics Announces AppSphere 2016

AppDynamics announced its third annual AppSphere user conference.

Taking place at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Nov. 14-18, the conference will bring together more than 2,000 people expected to register and explore how to redefine business performance in the era of digital transformation.

“Companies across every major industry are redefining their businesses through digital transformations,” said David Wadhwani, President and CEO, AppDynamics. “At AppSphere, attendees will learn from world-class speakers, industry leaders and disruptors how to redefine their business performance for this new digital era.”

AppSphere is designed for technical and business attendees to gain actionable best practices for powering digital transformation initiatives with real-time insights into application performance, user experience, and business outcomes. And this AppSphere, AppDynamics will introduce its newest innovation.

“Our attendance at AppSphere last year gave us the head start we needed to hit the ground running when we began our AppDynamics implementation,” said Bill Hineline, director of Information Technology, United Airlines. “As a result, we have been able to drive faster implementation and positively influence greater levels of tool adoption. We will definitely be back this year.”

Event highlights include:

- Over 70 technical training sessions, product deep dives, hands-on labs, and case study discussions from customer peers and AppDynamics product experts.

- Industry leaders such as Capital One, IBM and United Airlines will provide insight into how they’re enabling critical applications and providing real-time insights to drive business outcomes.

- AppDynamics President and CEO, David Wadhwani’s keynote session will highlight the technological disruption behind today’s software-defined businesses and AppDynamics’ vision for how CIOs can transform their organizations from servicing the business to driving the business.

- First ever opportunity to become certified through newly introduced AppDynamics professional certification program.

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Cloud migration was supposed to be a one-way door. For most enterprises, it turns out it isn't. Cloud data repatriation is a real and growing trend. A new survey ... finds that 89% of organizations plan to expand their on-premises infrastructure footprint over the next two years — and 75% have already moved at least some workloads back from public cloud in the past 24 months. The findings point to a broad rethinking of where data belongs ...

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For years, DevOps teams operated under a simple assumption: collect enough telemetry, and you can find and fix any problem. That assumption is breaking down. Modern enterprises now operate across microservices, hybrid cloud environments, APIs, Kubernetes, and highly automated delivery pipelines. Releases happen continuously, dependencies shift constantly, and failures spread faster than teams can diagnose them ...

New Relic surveyed IT and engineering leaders from the media and entertainment (M&E) sector to understand what's working — and where challenges persist with their observability practices. The findings reveal how M&E organizations are navigating rising platform complexity, audience expectations, and AI-driven change. Below are five takeaways that stand out ...

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In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 24, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA discusses network observability tool sprawl ... 

In cloud-native systems, scaling is often as simple as moving a slider. For on-premise databases, the stakes are different. Over-provisioning hardware is expensive. Under-provisioning leads to performance bottlenecks that are difficult to fix once the equipment is in the rack ...

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