Riverbed Technology announced the launch of Riverbed SteelCentral Portal, a software solution for managing application performance in today’s hybrid IT environments.

SteelCentral Portal provides end-to-end visibility, enabling teams 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 the application is the root cause and then drill down further to establish why, identifying issues such as newly installed application code.

With SteelCentral Portal, Riverbed blends performance data from its SteelCentral visibility and SteelHead optimization and control solutions. This 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.

“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, SVP and GM 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.”

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 visibility tools and solutions: SteelCentral AppInternals and AppResponse for application performance management data, and NetProfiler and NetSensor for network performance management data.

"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 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.