Riverbed Technology, a leader in application performance infrastructure, has launched its Riverbed SteelCentral Portal, a software solution for managing application performance in today’s hybrid IT environments.

The companies will be able to blend performance information from network, end user experience and application domains into a simple source of truth for end-to-end visibility, eliminating the finger pointing that occurs among siloed teams who have a limited view into only their domain expertise.

Effectively managing application performance in today’s hybrid enterprise requires deep and broad visibility across complex networks and hosting environments, said a statement.

SteelCentral Portal can provide a comprehensive, end-to-end visibility, fundamentally changing the way teams work together to resolve application performance issues and ultimately improve business performance.

It can give each stakeholder a customisable graphical dashboard with the most complete and relevant information. For each role, SteelCentral Portal will provide all the needed information in a single screen, with the ability to drill down into specific performance information.

Taj ElKhayat, regional vice president - Middle East, Turkey, North, West and Central Africa at Riverbed Technology, said: “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.

“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.”

The application performance equals business performance and, as a result, visibility into application performance is critical for organisation’s today, said the statement.

But visibility is increasingly difficult to achieve with today’s complex hybrid IT environments and applications, which often span traditional data centres, third-party hosting facilities, branch offices, mobile devices, and SaaS and IaaS-based clouds.

At the same time, delivering applications is also becoming more complex as networks evolve to a hybrid model combining private and public links.

Today, most IT organisations address performance issues in a ‘war room’ where cross-domain teams come together to tackle performance issues. The trouble is that each of these domains – network performance, app performance, end-user experience – typically has its own set of performance management tools.

Multiple tools from different vendors provide fragmentary and incomplete visibility, leaving IT stuck in siloes – each domain with a different perspective of the performance issue. IT engineers spend a lot of time analysing data and performance metrics but arrive at different and often conflicting conclusions on the cause of performance problems.

The result is that valuable time is wasted pointing fingers and resources are drained from strategic initiatives. This lack of true visibility has real consequences for application performance and ultimately for business performance.

Gary Middleton, global business development manager, Dimension Data, said: “An end-to-end view of performance and performance management has always been important for delivering optimal and consistent end-user experience, but it becomes critical as customers embrace hybrid architectures, SaaS applications, and enterprise mobility solutions.

“The SteelCentral Portal provides our customers with true end-to-end end visibility into application performance, network performance, and the end user which is very compelling. In addition, it enables all IT teams, whether focused on the network or applications, to get information faster and easier.”

The SteelCentral portal features graphical application discovery, data driven metric guidance, efficient management reporting, relevant stakeholder views, and monitor optimised and non-optimised traffic with SteelHead integration. - TradeArabia News Service