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THE NET-A-PORTER GROUP is built on a foundation of technology innovation and operates a hybrid IT infrastructure. This includes product and order management, and warehouse logistics all deployed in multiple data centers, and accessed by staff from various locations. The Group sought to ensure that the platform could be integrated simply into the existing infrastructure so that every member of the technology team, from the CTO to system engineers, has access to the data they need, whenever they need it.

In response to these challenges, Riverbed Professional Services has designed three new services to help customers protect, optimize, and maximize the investments they have made in Riverbed Application Performance Platform solutions.

In response to these challenges, Riverbed Professional Services has designed three new services to help customers protect, optimize, and maximize the investments they have made in Riverbed Application Performance Platform solutions.

"We were looking for much more flexibility and to centralize as much as possible in our data center in Zurich. We wanted a single point solution rather than the cumbersome and complex multi-point situation we had been using," said Marc Ehinger, Head of Global IT Infrastructure at Tecan Trading. "Our overall approach is very similar to Riverbed's vision of the hybrid enterprise. At Tecan, we call it a 'Flexible Service Infrastructure.' Our goal is for IT to be a fluid resource that we can flex and assign as we need. We are a global company and need to deliver a service wherever and whenever the business needs it. Riverbed SteelFusion provides us with an IT infrastructure that is flexible enough for our business needs and delivers the security and centralized control we require."

"We were looking for much more flexibility and to centralize as much as possible in our data center in Zurich. We wanted a single point solution rather than the cumbersome and complex multi-point situation we had been using," said Marc Ehinger, Head of Global IT Infrastructure at Tecan Trading. "Our overall approach is very similar to Riverbed's vision of the hybrid enterprise. At Tecan, we call it a 'Flexible Service Infrastructure.' Our goal is for IT to be a fluid resource that we can flex and assign as we need. We are a global company and need to deliver a service wherever and whenever the business needs it. Riverbed SteelFusion provides us with an IT infrastructure that is flexible enough for our business needs and delivers the security and centralized control we require."

Hybrid IT architectures bring significant benefits to organizations—agility/time to market, cost savings, flexibility. These benefits are fueling the hybrid revolution. In fact, according to Gartner, “75% of enterprises expecting to have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of this year.”[1] But, along with the benefits, hybrid IT also brings challenges, including less visibility, less control, and greater need for optimizing app performance over long distances. Effectively managing application performance in these evolving hybrid environments requires broad and deep visibility across application hosting architectures, complex networks, and end-user experiences. The complexity of multiple applications, clouds, networks, service providers, and end users everywhere all combine to hinder the application and network visibility needed to ensure optimal performance and a consistently great experience for end users, independent of their location or device. Such a consistent end-user experience is essential for everyone to work effectively and for the enterprise to perform at its peak.

Hybrid IT architectures bring significant benefits to organizations—agility/time to market, cost savings, flexibility. These benefits are fueling the hybrid revolution. In fact, according to Gartner, “75% of enterprises expecting to have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of this year.”[1] But, along with the benefits, hybrid IT also brings challenges, including less visibility, less control, and greater need for optimizing app performance over long distances. Effectively managing application performance in these evolving hybrid environments requires broad and deep visibility across application hosting architectures, complex networks, and end-user experiences. The complexity of multiple applications, clouds, networks, service providers, and end users everywhere all combine to hinder the application and network visibility needed to ensure optimal performance and a consistently great experience for end users, independent of their location or device. Such a consistent end-user experience is essential for everyone to work effectively and for the enterprise to perform at its peak.

“With this acquisition now complete, our team can begin to move forward with the strategic initiatives that will take us to the next stage of growth,” said Jerry M. Kennelly, chairman and CEO of Riverbed. “As a private company, Riverbed is better positioned to pursue our long term goals, and has greater flexibility to develop best-of breed technologies that deliver superior application performance for our customers. This flexibility, alongside Thoma Bravo’s deep experience growing companies in the application performance space, makes us very excited about the future.”

“With this acquisition now complete, our team can begin to move forward with the strategic initiatives that will take us to the next stage of growth,” said Jerry M. Kennelly, chairman and CEO of Riverbed. “As a private company, Riverbed is better positioned to pursue our long term goals, and has greater flexibility to develop best-of breed technologies that deliver superior application performance for our customers. This flexibility, alongside Thoma Bravo’s deep experience growing companies in the application performance space, makes us very excited about the future.”

For example, a cross-domain team can view common information about the performance of an application, the network, and how the end user is being affected through the Portal’s “High-Level Summary” view. Looking at the “Application Map” in this view, the application team can quickly identify the application is the root cause and then drill down further to establish why, identifying issues such as newly installed application code.