Riverbed Unveils Application-Aware Network Performance Mgmt Solution

Riverbed Technology, the performance company, has announced its application-aware network performance management (NPM) solution can now address network and application performance issues across the three key pillars of virtualisation. New capabilities within the Cascade 10.0 release deliver the needed performance management for virtualised desktop infrastructure (VDI), server virtualisation, and fully virtualised datacentres using VXLAN software-defined networks (SDNs). In addition, the Riverbed Cascade product family is now offered as a comprehensive virtual portfolio ready for deployment by service providers as well as in public, private, and hybrid clouds.

Cascade 10.0 provides detailed monitoring into the performance of virtualised environments, including the most popular VDI protocols, and is a NPM solution to provide visibility for VMware View (PCoIP protocol) for actions such as screen refresh, print, type, etc. These details are critical for troubleshooting and optimising the performance of interactive applications in VDI environments. Also supported is monitoring of the Common Internet File Systems (CIFS) protocol to ensure the performance of file sharing and collaboration applications such as Microsoft SharePoint.

The latest version of Cascade also provides performance monitoring of VXLAN SDNs by providing visibility into the UDP-encapsulated traffic and virtual tunnel endpoints. With these VXLAN capabilities, Cascade products provide network operations teams with the ability to control and understand VXLAN virtual overlay network performance, monitor and troubleshoot software-defined datacentres (SDDC) and the physical network in a single, easy-to-use solution and provide SDDC owners a singular view into their datacentre’s performance and service level agreements (SLAs).

“With these new Cascade products, IT managers have an easy-to-use, integrated solution that empowers them to deliver the high-performing applications and networks their businesses demand,” said Dimitri Vlachos, Senior Director of Marketing and Products, Cascade Business Unit at Riverbed. “IT operations can now embrace the great benefits of virtualisation without giving up the visibility and control required to run today’s always-on enterprise networks.”