Riverbed Technology announced a milestone in the integration of its Riverbed Steelhead wide area network (WAN) optimization product family and its Riverbed Cascade network performance management (NPM) product family with the introduction of Cascade Profiler and Shark 10.5.
Customers globally now have a single integrated WAN Optimization and Performance Management solution that can deliver application acceleration anywhere while enhancing end-user experience and visibility.
With the integrated solution, operations teams now have the application intelligence and network visibility they need to prioritize business-critical applications over less-critical applications to ensure performance and reduce the risk and impact of application downtime.
With Cascade Profiler and Shark 10.5 integrated with Steelhead, customers can now do more with their existing enterprise-wide Steelhead footprint without any need for additional hardware or probes to get increased visibility and control.
Key features include:
- Visibility into today’s critical applications with deep packet inspection
- Enterprise wide quality of service (QoS) and Path Selection technology to help prioritize the delivery of mission-critical applications over faster networks, while delivering less critical applications over less expensive commodity Internet links
- Centralized monitoring of QoS policies to visualize under or over-provisioning of bandwidth
- Critical real-time collaboration and unified communication visibility and monitoring
- Fully integrated Cascade Shark packet capture software into Steelhead
"Today’s data center environment is a mix of diverse users, mobile devices and cloud innovations. IT managers require the tools necessary to monitor, manage and accelerate application performance anywhere and everywhere," said Paul Brady, SVP and GM of Riverbed Performance Management. "Whether you’re monitoring VoIP traffic, peer-to-peer collaboration or business-critical web applications, with Riverbed, you can stay ahead of problems and ensure your business priorities dictate how your network behaves and not the other way around."
Cascade 10.5 is generally available today. Fully enabled Cascade Shark on Steelhead EX is expected to be GA in Q4 2013.
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