Provides IT and business managers with single
source of truth for network, application, and end-user experience
performance combined with unparalleled ease-of-use
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.
Blog post: The Gateway to Better Application
Performance: SteelCentral Portal: http://rvbd.ly/1CBsiBJ
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.
Upcoming Webinar: Taking the "War" out of the War Room
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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Additional Resources
- SlideShare: SteelCentral Portal Take
the War Out of the War Room: http://rvbd.ly/1CBsocp
- SteelCentral Portal Data Sheet:
http://rvbd.ly/1EudREb
- SteelCentral Portal Product Page:
http://rvbd.ly/1anapyL
- SteelCentral Portal Video:
http://rvbd.ly/1EufLES
- ESG Analyst Brief:
http://rvbd.ly/1EudWrB
- EMA Whitepaper:
http://rvbd.ly/1EueLAC
- SteelCentral Family Brochure:
http://rvbd.ly/1EueHAS
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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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