Riverbed delivers Business-Level Visibility to Globally Connected Enterprises
 Riverbed Technology has announced enhancements to its Riverbed Optimization System and Cascade solutions that provide the globally connected enterprise with business-level visibility and control for all types of traffic and applications. With the upcoming releases of version 9.0 of Cascade, with its advanced network and application performance analysis and visibility solution, and version 6.5 of RiOS, Riverbed will provide a broad range of functionality that both extends visibility from the network engineer all the way to the C-suite and gives IT the ability to allocate resources based on the business needs of enterprises. "With a widening variety of applications and services distributed over the network, enterprises require better insight into application performance to make intelligent IT decisions that further business goals," said Joe Skorupa, research vice president at Gartner. "Robust traffic management capabilities such as QoS classification and enforcement are required to prioritize business-critical traffic in order to deliver essential services that keep the business running." To help enterprises better understand their IT performance, Cascade 9.0 provides customers with fine-grained classification of traffic, including advanced Layer-7 awareness and a single business-level performance view of applications and services. A new service-level dashboard provides an at-a-glance status of critical services and applications, with the ability to drill down to the location, application and user level, for better visibility and control. The new Service Discovery Wizard streamlines the process of discovering a multi-tier service and configuring its monitoring and dashboards. Enterprises now have an end-to-end service monitoring solution to help understand the interdependencies of various network components and pinpoint the root cause of a performance problem. In addition, a new service-level reporting capability provides enterprises with a business-level report that can draw a historical comparison of performance levels to help top management make intelligent decisions about network resource allocation. For More Details See www.varindia.com | |