Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ:RVBD), the leader in application performance
infrastructure, today announced the launch of Riverbed®
SteelCentral™ Portal, a breakthrough software solution for managing
application performance in today’s hybrid IT environments. For the first
time, companies are able to blend performance information from network,
end user experience, and application domains into a simple source of
truth for end-to-end application visibility, eliminating the finger
pointing that occurs among siloed teams who have a limited view into
only their domain expertise.
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Effectively managing application performance in today’s hybrid
enterprise requires deep and broad visibility across complex networks
and hosting environments. Only SteelCentral Portal provides the most
comprehensive, end-to-end visibility, fundamentally changing the way
teams work together to resolve application performance issues and
ultimately improve business performance. SteelCentral Portal gives each
stakeholder a customizable graphical dashboard with the most complete
and relevant information. For each role, SteelCentral Portal provides
all the needed information in a single screen, with the ability to drill
down into specific performance information.
For example, a cross-domain team can view common information about the
performance of an application, the network, and how the end user is
being affected through the Portal’s “High-Level Summary” view. Looking
at the “Application Map” in this view, the application team can quickly
identify that the application is the root cause and then drill down
further to establish why, identifying issues such as newly installed
application code.
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With SteelCentral Portal, Riverbed blends performance data from its
industry-leading SteelCentral visibility and SteelHead optimization and
control solutions. This holistic view gives customers a single source of
truth for application performance by accelerating, troubleshooting,
optimizing application data and traffic across the entire hybrid
network, and even preventing outages in the future. SteelCentral Portal
gives different domain teams a more holistic picture across the entire
hybrid enterprise to identify potential problems more readily and keep
people focused on strategic projects of business value rather than
non-productive operational firefighting.
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“The world has shifted – for today’s enterprise, it’s all about the app.
Our customers need rich, horizontal visibility to break down common
siloes and see every aspect of application performance across today’s
hybrid enterprises,” said Mike Sargent, senior vice president and
general manager of SteelCentral at Riverbed. “With the launch of
Riverbed’s groundbreaking new visibility solution, SteelCentral Portal,
enterprise teams now have a robust, shared, easy-to-use view of
end-to-end application performance. No competitor can match SteelCentral
Portal’s unique combination of end-user experience monitoring, network
performance management (NPM), and application performance management
(APM) capabilities. With this unparalleled level of both broad and deep
visibility, IT teams can more quickly identify root causes of
performance issues and drill down to fix them fast.”
Application Performance in Complex, Hybrid Environments Is a Growing
Challenge
Application performance equals business performance and, as a result, visibility
into application performance is critical for organization’s today. But
visibility is increasingly difficult to achieve with today’s complex
hybrid IT environments and applications, which often span traditional
data centers, third-party hosting facilities, branch offices, mobile
devices, and SaaS and IaaS-based clouds. At the same time, delivering
applications is also becoming more complex as networks evolve to a
hybrid model combining private and public links.
Today, most IT organizations address performance issues in a “war room”
where cross-domain teams come together to tackle performance issues. The
trouble is that each of these domains – network performance, app
performance, end-user experience – typically has its own set of
performance management tools. Multiple tools from different vendors
provide fragmentary and incomplete visibility, leaving IT stuck in
siloes – each domain with a different perspective of the performance
issue. IT engineers spend a lot of time analyzing data and performance
metrics but arrive at different and often conflicting conclusions on the
cause of performance problems. The result is that valuable time is
wasted pointing fingers and resources are drained from strategic
initiatives. This lack of true visibility has real consequences for
application performance and ultimately for business performance.
SteelCentral Portal brings a new approach to problem-solving with a
holistic operational view of the complete IT environment. SteelCentral
Portal uniquely blends data from all relevant sources into a single,
actionable source of truth for stakeholders, with easy to view graphical
interfaces and application maps. These sources include Riverbed’s
industry-leading visibility tools and solutions: SteelCentral
AppInternals and AppResponse for application performance management
data, and NetProfiler and NetSensor for network performance management
data.
“The new SteelCentral Portal simplifies the complexity of getting a
complete, end-to-end view of our IT infrastructure so that we can
analyze, troubleshoot, and report network and application issues to
avoid negatively impacting the end user and our business,” said Michelle
Jackman, Application Performance Management Lead at Devon Energy. “The
interface is easy to navigate and now, with the ability to generate
application maps, we quickly get the big-picture information we need to
diagnose issues without jumping around to different tools and views.”
“An end-to-end view of performance and performance management has always
been important for delivering optimal and consistent end-user
experience, but it becomes critical as customers embrace hybrid
architectures, SaaS applications, and enterprise mobility solutions,”
said Gary Middleton, Global Business Development Manager at Dimension
Data. “The SteelCentral Portal provides our customers with true
end-to-end visibility into application performance, network performance,
and the end user which is very compelling. In addition, it enables all
IT teams, whether focused on the network or applications, to get
information faster and easier.”
“Applications play a prominent role in the success of most enterprises.
In a very real sense, applications are their business,” said Shamus
McGillicuddy, senior analyst, Network Management, Enterprise Management
Associates, Inc. “SteelCentral solutions play a fundamental role in
helping IT organizations maintain and optimize the performance of their
applications and network, and with SteelCentral Portal they are able to
more easily collaborate and resolve performance issues from the
‘top-down.’”
SteelCentral Portal features:
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Graphical application discovery: SteelCentral Portal takes an
interactive, wizard-driven process to help IT teams discover and
rapidly generate a dynamic service map. This reduces the time and
effort needed to develop and implement a reporting framework and
enables companies to quickly diagnose and remedy performance issues.
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Data driven metric guidance: SteelCentral Portal includes
powerful, out of the box workflows that assist administrators to
select the “best” metrics based on available data.
Administrators
determine the information needed and SteelCentral Portal automatically
curates different workflows based on available data sources.
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Efficient management reporting: SteelCentral Portal gives a
central source of truth for application performance and supporting
infrastructure. Looking at the same triage data fosters better
teamwork helping teams rapidly diagnose the issue’s root cause. And
non-technical stakeholders across the enterprise get the meaningful
data that they want.
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Relevant stakeholder views: SteelCentral Portal offers
each stakeholder a role-based home page with custom and default
dashboards tailored to the individual’s needs and information
prioritized for that user and role.
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Monitor optimized and non-optimized traffic with SteelHead
integration: With SteelHead appliances integrated with AppResponse
or NetProfiler, IT teams can look across their network and view both
non-optimized and optimized traffic. Regardless of whether the data
resides in the data center, branch, or in the cloud, SteelCentral
Portal users can drill down to understand which applications are
optimized, how they’re running, and what users are doing with each of
them.
SteelCentral Portal is available now. For screenshots and further detail
on SteelCentral Portal, click here.
In addition a free trial download form is available here.
SteelCentral and the Riverbed Application Performance PlatformTM
The Riverbed SteelCentral product family is a performance management and
control suite that combines user experience, application, and network
performance management to provide the visibility needed to diagnose and
cure issues before end users notice a problem, call the help desk, or
jump to another web site out of frustration. Riverbed SteelCentral is
part of the Riverbed Application Performance Platform™, a complete
platform that gives CIOs end-to-end application visibility, optimization
and control, across the entire enterprise. Riverbed SteelCentral has
been recognized as a “Leader” in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Network
Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD) for two consecutive years
and “Visionary” in the Magic Quadrant for Application Performance
Monitoring (2014). In addition, Riverbed SteelHead has been recognized
as a “Leader” in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization” eight
years running.
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About Riverbed
Riverbed, at more than $1 billion in annual revenue, is the leader in
Application Performance Infrastructure, delivering the most complete
platform for the hybrid enterprise to ensure applications perform as
expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues
can be proactively detected and resolved before impacting business
performance. Riverbed enables hybrid enterprises to transform
application performance into a competitive advantage by maximizing
employee productivity and leveraging IT to create new forms of
operational agility. Riverbed’s 26,000+ customers include 97% of the
Fortune 100 and 98% of the Forbes Global 100. Learn more at www.riverbed.com.
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