David Noel has been promoted to General Vice President, EMEAR (Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Russia) at Cisco AppDynamics, with responsibility for driving sales operations and expanding the AppDynamics business in the area.

Global study, which examined the digital behaviors of more than 13,000 global consumers, also identified consumers now have a zero tolerance policy for poor application experience and automatically place blame on the application and brand.

Recent research from Gartner indicates that almost 70 percent of organizations using cloud services today plan to increase their cloud spend in the wake of the disruption caused by COVID-19.

The shift to digital-first business models to weather the storm and minimize the commercial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, has placed technologists at the forefront of their organizations’ response.