Three Months after Acquisition Riverbed Provides Out-of-Box WAN Optimization Intelligence to Customers

Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, recently introduced enhanced features to streamline the visibility and reporting efforts of organizations deploying WAN optimization. Since the completion of its acquisition of Mazu Networks in February 2009, Riverbed® has integrated the visibility and analysis capabilities of Cascade™ appliances into its award-winning WAN optimization solutions.  In the existing version, Cascade 8.3, Riverbed will provide out-of-the box WAN optimization intelligence, with an enhanced level of automation, ease-of-use, and consolidated enterprise visibility in one place.

As infrastructures become more complex, organizations are increasingly finding significant gaps in their ability to monitor the performance of critical applications and gain actionable information to drive the decision process.  Without requiring any expensive remote probes, advance configuration or environmental knowledge, Cascade ‘out-of-the-box’ analyzes network traffic to provide valuable information about the performance, interactions of and dependencies between users, applications and networks. Cascade 8.3 will streamline operator efforts to gain insight into where bottlenecks are in the environment, reporting on both optimized and non-optimized traffic in a consolidated view.

“Our customers have been asking for more than just optimization. They need new solutions to manage their WAN and understand the benefits of WAN optimization in their own environment.   Over the last three months we’ve integrated Cascade into WAN

optimization environments, beyond the capabilities of other application monitoring and visibility solutions,” said Philippe Elie, Regional Director of Riverbed, MEA.  “Riverbed is now able to deliver to its enterprise and service provider customers faster, smarter and more efficient IT infrastructure performance solutions. The features available in Cascade 8.3 support our overall strategy to provide an end-to-end IT infrastructure performance solution.”

The new features in Cascade 8.3 will provide customers with a comprehensive overview of their WAN environments.
 
Steelhead Appliance Auto-Detection
Cascade appliances will automatically detect Steelhead® appliances.  The automatic awareness of the Steelhead appliances will allow Cascade appliances to automatically group the WAN interfaces and associated NetFlow data as belonging to optimized sites or non-optimized sites as appropriate.  This automatic detection and association simplifies Cascade setup, shortens the out-of-box time required to get up and running, and enables scaling in growing environments.  The value of the Cascade appliance in an optimized environment is increased and the customer time-to-value is dramatically reduced when Cascade appliance WAN reports automatically reflect optimized versus non-optimized traffic. 

One-Click WAN and Optimization Analysis Report
One-Click WAN reporting eliminates the need for prior operational or environmental knowledge previously necessary to secure high-level reports.  With the enhanced reporting capabilities, it’s easier for a non-expert to access valuable reports about WAN optimization.  Unlike alternative offerings, Cascade appliances will allow an IT director or C-level executive to obtain business-level insight into the service levels of network traffic without extensive product training, enabling smarter and faster decision-making that will positively impact operational efficiencies.  One-Click reporting capabilities include:

- Overall WAN analysis: Customers can better and more easily understand which applications are being used most in the WAN, which sites are most active, where potential congestion lies, and which sites are potentially experiencing poor application performance. 

- Optimization Candidate Analysis: Customers can better and more easily understand which sites and which applications would benefit most from the application of Steelhead appliances, allowing better management of current resources.   Cascade visibility accelerates efforts to prioritize the most congested WAN links; understand the business importance of different links; document how congestion affects application performance; and understand which sites will benefit from the application of Steelhead appliances.

- Optimization Benefit Analysis: Customers can better and more easily understand how optimization is impacting the WAN, with visibility into which key applications and locations are benefiting from acceleration.  The increased visibility allows customers to forecast the value and rationalize the investment of deploying additional Steelhead appliances by addressing key issues, such as which sites are benefiting, which applications are benefiting, and how much bandwidth is being saved.

- Site Capacity Analysis: Cascade provides the exact data necessary to properly size Steelhead appliances within a report detailing interface bandwidth, utilization and number of connections.

Enhanced Reporting on Learned Behaviors

Reporting analysis is the key component once an enterprise has true visibility into its WAN optimization environment. With competitive offerings, network managers are burdened with sifting through reams of reports to determine what is normal and what is outlying traffic.

To ease the strain experienced by network managers, Cascade appliances will automatically create baselines by learning the typical patterns of interactions between users, applications, servers and network segments as soon as they start to receive data.  Enterprises are then able to leverage the rich data within Cascade appliances to better understand application adherence to service level objectives over time.  

With Cascade 8.3, Riverbed is introducing enhanced behavioral reporting that enables customers to look back historically at application performance and have abnormal service variances automatically highlighted.  This enhances an operator’s ability to identify trends in outlying traffic, associate newly reported problems with traffic anomalies, and separate them from normal service delivery cycles.

“The enhancements to the Cascade appliances address the need for an application- and business-aware management solution.  To meet our customers’ needs we’ve focused on automating features that were previously manually intensive and required detailed knowledge of the WAN environment,” added Philippe Elie.  “Our joint Cascade and Steelhead appliance customers can now streamline the reporting and analysis of their WAN-optimized environments.”    

Availability
Cascade version 8.3 will be available to customers beginning June 15, 2009.  Cascade appliances can operate as a stand-alone solution or interoperate with Steelhead appliances.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said the city has already begun outreach to the city's homeless population as Tropical Storm Hilary approaches the city, including many who live on tents near riverbeds.

"Outreach started a couple of days ago," Bass said during an appearance on CBS "Face the Nation" Sunday. "We have hundreds of people on our river beds, and every time we have a rain event, helicopters drive by as well as hundreds of outreach workers go by in advance to tell them to seek shelter."

According to a report from KTLA, workers with the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority began outreach to the homeless population in riverbed areas on Thursday, starting with locations within flood control areas through the San Gabriel River Watershed, L.A. River, Sepulveda Basin and Hansen Dam.

HILARY WEAKENS TO TROPICAL STORM, BUT CALIFORNIA STILL FACES DANGER AMID STATE OF EMERGENCY

LAHSA said that 50 people had already been moved from the Santa Fe Dam area to safer locations, while additional teams are being activated throughout the weekend to help move more people who are in areas prone to flooding. The teams have also been working with the Red Cross and city and county officials to explore using facilities such as parks, gymnasiums, and hotels as emergency storm shelters.

Bass told CBS that the city has shelters available for homeless residents.

"We do have shelters open," Bass said.

But Bass also noted that the city and county combined have a homeless population of nearly 70,000, most of whom live in tents outside.

HURRICANE HILARY: STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED IN CALIFORNIA AS MILLIONS BRACE FOR LIFE-THREATENING FLOODING

Pressed on what she's doing to tackle the city's homeless problem, Bass said that she declared a state of emergency on her first day in office that has helped move 14,000 people.

"You are talking about a tremendous amount of people," Bass said. "We did declare a state of emergency on my first day in office and in my first six months, we housed 14,000 people. But it just shows you the magnitude of the problem."

Hilary was downgraded to a tropical storm on Sunday as it continued its path toward the coast of Mexico. From there, the storm is expected to move into Southern California and bring "catastrophic and life-threatening flooding," according to the National Weather Service.

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"We continue to be very concerned for the potential for life-threatening flash flooding, potentially catastrophic impacts," National Hurricane Center Director Dr. Michael Brennan said Sunday. 

Riverbed Announces Keynote and Session Lineup for Annual Riverbed EMPOWEREDx Customer Community Roadshow

• Live interactive customer event spans the globe: August 23 (Brisbane, Australia); September 12 (Dallas); September 19 (New York); September 19 - 20 (Paris); and October 10 (London)
• Event theme focused on Igniting Exceptional Digital Experiences; attendees will walk away with practical tips to help deliver a seamless digital experience and Improve enterprise performance.
• Features live keynotes, customer panels, technical and interactive breakout sessions with Riverbed experts; customers speakers include EDF Energy, Global Credit Union, Princess Alexandra Trust NHS, Unilever and many more
• Registration now open at www.riverbed.com/empoweredx

Riverbed, the leader in unified observability, today announced the keynote, customer panel, and technical and interactive breakout session lineup for Riverbed EMPOWEREDx – a global customer community roadshow focused on “Igniting Exceptional Digital Experiences.” During EMPOWEREDx, industry thought leaders and technical visionaries will discuss how to overcome today’s complex IT environments and sprawling data, to deliver seamless and secure digital experiences to users everywhere. The series of events span the globe and include: Brisbane, Australia (August 23); Dallas (September 12); New York City (September 19); Paris (September 19-20); and London (October 1). To register or view the agenda in a city near you, visit www.riverbed.com/empoweredx.

Customer speakers vary by location and include IT leaders and technical experts from EDF Energy, Global Credit Union, Princess Alexandra Trust NHS, Unilever, and many others.

LinkedIn: Riverbed EMPOWEREDx Customer Community Roadshow 2023 opens registration: www.riverbed.com/empoweredx

EMPOWEREDx will bring together Riverbed leaders, customers and industry experts, to discuss how organizations are working to digitally transform and support the evolution of hybrid work, the shift to the cloud and keeping up with heightened user digital expectations, including from Millennials and Gen Z employees.

Attendees will learn how to take control and lead their organizations forward with a strategy and technologies that can deliver an exceptional digital experience for employees and customers, while reducing unnecessary IT spend. They will have an opportunity to learn how AI, unified observability, digital employee management (DEM) and acceleration solutions can ignite the digital experience of all users.

EMPOWEREDx attendees will be able to join thought leadership keynotes, customer panels roundtable discussions with technology leaders, and expert-led technical breakout sessions. Breakout sessions include: Redefining Digital Excellence: A Comprehensive Approach to Monitoring Total User Experience; IT Cost Optimization; and Intelligent Incident Response & Remediation.

Riverbed speakers, which vary by location, include: Dave Donatelli, CEO; Shaun Bierweiler, CRO; John Pittle, Customer Experience CTO; Alex Thurber, SVP, Global Partners and Alliances; Elie Dib, SVP, EMEA; Chris Parker, Vice President, APJ; Charbel Khneisser, VP, Solutions Engineering, EMEA; and many other business and technical leaders.

What: Riverbed EMPOWEREDx – Customer Community Conference 2023
When and Where: August 23 (Brisbane, Australia); September 12 (Dallas); September 19 (New York); September 19 - 20 (Paris); and October 10 (London)
Registration: https://www.riverbed.com/empoweredx

About Riverbed

Riverbed is the only company with the collective richness of telemetry from network to app to end user, that illuminates and then accelerates every interaction, so organizations can deliver a seamless digital experience and drive enterprise performance. Riverbed offers two industry-leading portfolios: Alluvio by Riverbed, a differentiated Unified Observability portfolio that unifies data, insights, and actions across IT, so customers can deliver seamless, secure digital experiences; and Riverbed Acceleration, providing fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Together with our thousands of partners, and market-leading customers globally – including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 – we empower every click, every digital experience. Riverbed. Empower the Experience. Learn more at riverbed.com

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