 "Riverbed Delivers Network Performance Monitoring To MSPs")
Riverbed Technology, the performance company, has introduced two new virtual editions to the Riverbed Cascade product family that enable managed service providers (MSPs) to deliver application-aware network performance management (NPM) as a service to their small-to-medium-sized and enterprise customers. The new Cascade Profiler Virtual Edition and Cascade Gateway Virtual Edition plus the existing Cascade Shark Virtual Edition provide a completely virtualised NPM solution portfolio that allows MSPs to deliver continued value in a virtualised world with the next-generation of performance management.
With the new virtual edition Cascade products, MSPs can quickly and easily provision performance management services for customers wherever they are required, even in remote or non-traditional sites. In addition, Cascade products are integrated with the Riverbed Steelhead product family and provide MSPs that offer wide area network (WAN) optimisation as a service with a comprehensive service for ensuring the performance of their customers’ applications and networks.
In addition to providing the visibility needed for monitoring and troubleshooting network and application performance, Cascade products provide customers the critical information they need for strategic IT decision making and planning across projects, including datacentre consolidation, virtualisation, and WAN optimisation.
The Riverbed portfolio of virtualised NPM solutions includes Cascade Profiler Virtual Edition, Cascade Shark Virtual Edition, and Cascade Gateway Virtual Edition. Installed as a virtual machine (VM), Cascade Profiler Virtual Edition is the centralised analysis and reporting console that integrates application and network data from Cascade Shark Virtual Edition and Cascade Gateway Virtual Edition to provide enterprise-wide, service-level monitoring. Cascade Gateway Virtual Edition collects and aggregates flow data and statistics from network infrastructure and virtual environments for delivery to Cascade Profiler Virtual Edition.
“The new virtual editions of Riverbed Cascade products provide an easy-to-deploy solution for MSPs to quickly provision performance monitoring services for customers wherever they are required, even in remote or non-traditional sites,” said Randy Schirman, senior vice president of worldwide channel sales at Riverbed. “Riverbed is leading the way in NPM solutions for virtualised and cloud environments, which provides MSPs and their clients with the confidence that they will have the needed visibility to monitor and troubleshoot network and application performance in today’s virtualised environments and tomorrow’s cloud-based infrastructure.”