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Ronak Desai

Senior Vice President & GM

AppDynamics & Full-Stack Observability

Ronak Desai is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco AppDynamics and Full-Stack Observability. Ronak is responsible for leading the overall AppDynamics business unit, driving strategy, vision, transformation and business growth for AppDynamics and its products – including on-premises, cSaaS, AppDynamics Cloud, and the Full-Stack Observability Platform. Prior to joining AppDynamics, Ronak was SVP of Cisco’s Cloud Networking Engineering organization, where he spearheaded major strategy and technical shifts across Cisco’s networking portfolio of products and services, including ACI to ACI Anywhere, 400G offerings, Cloud APIC, Nexus Dashboard and more. Ronak has held additional engineering leadership roles at Insieme Networks – which was acquired by Cisco in December of 2013 – where he was responsible for the development and architecture for the ACI controller and Nexus 9000, Hybrid cloud solutions. In addition, he helped drive the development of NX-OS, Nexus 7000, MDS9000 and SAN-OS (the pre-curser to NX-OS). Ronak has earned 50 patents, many of which are currently embedded in the solutions Cisco provides to address the dynamic needs of worldwide customers and technology partners every day. He holds a Master of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Articles

February 6, 2024

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Bringing our Industry-Leading Innovation to Cisco Live EMEA!

3 min read

Cisco Announces new enhancements that build on existing platform capabilities of our Cisco AppDynamics and Cisco Observability Platform, which help you get to the root of Digital Experience.

January 24, 2024

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Maximizing Operational Efficiency: Introducing our New Smart Agent Management for Cisco AppDynamics

3 min read

Announcing a major innovation in the Cisco Full-Stack Observability portfolio: Smart Agent for Cisco AppDynamics, which enables simplified full-stack application instrumentation and centralized agent lifecycle management.

November 28, 2023

APPLICATIONS

Delivering application performance to maximize business KPIs

3 min read

Protect revenue, improve digital experiences and manage brand reputation with Cisco Cloud Observability new business performance insight and visibility metrics for modern applications on AWS.

November 21, 2023

APPLICATIONS

Meeting the needs of the application generation

2 min read

The Application Generation's expectations are higher than ever and their tolerance for bad digital experiences is non-existent. Cisco Full-Stack Observability solutions enable organizations to deliver exceptional digital experiences.

November 7, 2023

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco further delivers on Full-Stack Observability ecosystem vision

3 min read

Cisco opens up Cisco Observability Platform to build custom new uses cases, introduces wave of innovative partner modules at Cisco Partner Summit 2023.

September 12, 2023

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Secure Application now delivers business risk observability for cloud environments

2 min read

As the application security threat landscape grows, it's more difficult to find and prioritize vulnerabilities for remediation. Cisco Secure Application can help protect what matters most with business risk observability.

July 26, 2023

APPLICATIONS

Innovation in the Age of Application Observability

2 min read

In The Age of Application Observability, Cisco shows how the rapid adoption of cloud-native technologies is dramatically improving speed to innovation, while offering greater agility, reliability and scalability, all while delivering exceptional end-user experiences.

June 6, 2023

APPLICATIONS

Empowering an extensible observability ecosystem with the Cisco Observability Platform

3 min read

The Cisco Full-Stack Observability (FSO) Platform provides our customers with in-context, correlated, and predictive insights which enables them to reduce time to resolve issues, optimize their own users’ experiences, and minimize business risk

April 20, 2023

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Smartlook, Enabling New Offerings for Cisco AppDynamics and Full-Stack Observability

1 min read

Cisco announces its intent to acquire Smartlook Inc, s.r.o. It represents a big step forward in delivering even more value for Cisco AppDynamics and the Full-Stack Observability Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) solution, with new application and user experience insights, analytics, and troubleshooting capabilities.

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