Recognised by Gartner as the only "leader" in the magic quadrants for both Application Performance Monitoring (2013) and Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (2014), the Riverbed Performance Management family of products combine user experience and application and network performance management to detect and enable customers to resolve issues before they impact on end-users.
"Software-defined data centres built on private cloud technology offer tremendous savings and flexibility, so businesses are increasingly adopting this approach to provision new services on demand," said Dimitri Vlachos, vice-president of marketing and products of Riverbed. "Cascade Express Virtual Edition enables customers to leverage powerful computer and network virtualisation platforms while providing advanced application-aware network performance management. Customers gain a holistic view of their virtual and physical infrastructure, allowing them to have complete insight into application performance regardless of where the application is hosted and how it is delivered."
Riverbed Cascade Express Virtual Edition runs on VMware vSphereâ and includes the following capabilities:
"Network virtualisation transforms data centre network operations in the software-defined data centre," said Hatem Naguib, vice-president, networking and security of VMware. "By deploying Riverbed Cascade Express Virtual Edition in conjunction with our VMware NSXTM network virtualisation platform, customers can gain unified visibility into application and service delivery performance to help provide the best possible user experience."
As an example of the platform integrations and how the synergistic capabilities of Riverbed solutions benefit customers, organisations that have Riverbed Steelhead appliances can leverage this investment to send both flow and packet data to Riverbed Cascade Express 460 for detailed analysis of Steelhead-optimised WAN and quality-of-service (QoS) settings by application. Riverbed Cascade Express 460 analyses both non-optimised and optimised WAN environments, enabling IT teams to plan for WAN optimisation, assess the impact of the deployment and accurately quantify the benefits of WAN optimisation.
