Riverbed Technology announced the latest enhancements to the SteelCentral platform.
Riverbed SteelCentral is a comprehensive and integrated performance management solution that provides centralized visibility and insight to ensure optimal performance of enterprise applications while maximizing IT efficiency and productivity. Whether the challenge is monitoring performance broadly across all applications, networks and infrastructure, or delving deep into mission critical application code, SteelCentral combines user experience, application, infrastructure, and network monitoring for a holistic view of application performance.
“Today, SteelCentral knocks down all the barriers between domain siloes and makes collaborating to deliver great app performance easy - eliminating the finger-pointing, and accelerating problem resolution. This allows IT to refocus its efforts on attacking the strategic goals of the business,” said Mike Sargent, SVP, GM of SteelCentral at Riverbed. “Leading enterprises are adopting SteelCentral as the backbone of their app performance ‘Command Centers’ – it is clear to them that without such a powerful blended, operational view of performance, their ‘war rooms’ simply cannot achieve the level of app performance they need from today’s hybrid IT environments.”
These new enhancements to SteelCentral bring major advances in collaborative troubleshooting capabilities. While new features are being released in key components of the platform – including enhancements in Portal, AppInternals, AppResponse, NetAuditor, NetShark, NetPlanner and NetSensor – they support a common theme of improved platform integration while enhancing several powerful capabilities, including expanded network and application visibility; superior end-to-end application transaction monitoring; and more cost-effective Web application and WAN-optimization monitoring.
New SteelCentral Enhancements:
- Expanded network and application visibility. These new enhancements to SteelCentral bring major advances in collaborative troubleshooting capabilities, with visibility into the actual physical application network path integrated with existing logical network and application maps. IT staff can quickly move between operational views of applications and networks, eliminating the usual finger-pointing between application and network teams, zeroing in on the problem areas due to configuration or other infrastructure changes, and enabling teams to quickly and precisely identify the root cause. Additionally, packet storage on NetShark has been expanded to 576 TB to enable deeper forensics. This is especially useful in high-volume networks, particularly those focused on security or compliance requirements like government, financial services, or healthcare organizations.
- Superior end-to-end application transaction monitoring. New enhancements deliver integration between network delay metrics and application performance metrics at the transaction level, providing complete visibility for any set of transactions in a single UI, with contextual drill down to dramatically streamline problem diagnosis and accelerate resolution of complex issues. This allows IT to refocus resources on strategic initiatives, instead of firefighting performance issues across network and application domains.
- More cost-effective Web application and WAN-optimization monitoring. Today, hybrid IT environments have become the new norm, and companies are increasingly using Riverbed SteelHead to optimize application delivery, regardless of whether the apps are running on-premise, in virtual environments, or in the cloud. Enhancements to SteelCentral bring enhanced visibility and control for SteelHead environments, enabling customers to monitor the status of SteelHead EX and SteelHead Interceptor devices as a part of their overall infrastructure. In addition, SteelCentral is delivering improved performance for end-user experience monitoring of SteelHead-optimized web and SaaS applications such as Salesforce.com.
These enhancements to the Riverbed SteelCentral platform are expected to be available in November 2015.
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