Cisco’s IoT drive continues with $3.7 billion AppDynamics acquisition

Networking giant Cisco is betting $3.7 billion that helping businesses maintain and optimise their apps will be a key part of the IoT picture.
Cisco has a long history of sometimes puzzling (Linksys, Pure Digital) acquisitions, but it seems to be shopping with more discipline these days. Its diversification into enterprise communications seems to have gone well and these days its focus seems to be on IoT cloud platforms, as indicated by the acquisition of Jasper.
AppDynamics focuses on three mai