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SteelCentral delivers the most complete and integrated end-to-end performance management solution in the marketplace—monitoring end-users, applications, networks and infrastructure wherever they are, on or off the cloud—allowing enterprises to reduce or eliminate fragmentation and dramatically simplify the process for monitoring and managing application performance. With SteelCentral, organizations are better able to proactively detect performance issues that negatively impact end-user experience and rapidly pinpoint the root cause, regardless of where it originates.

SteelCentral delivers the most complete and integrated end-to-end performance management solution in the marketplace—monitoring end-users, applications, networks and infrastructure wherever they are, on or off the cloud—allowing enterprises to reduce or eliminate fragmentation and dramatically simplify the process for monitoring and managing application performance. With SteelCentral, organizations are better able to proactively detect performance issues that negatively impact end-user experience and rapidly pinpoint the root cause, regardless of where it originates.

Some of the key benefits of the platform include:

Some of the key benefits of the platform include:

“In today’s cloud era, legacy approaches to networking which are hardware-centric, rigid and error-prone are preventing businesses from moving forward,” said Paul O’Farrell, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Riverbed’s SteelConnect, SteelHead, and SteelFusion business units. “Riverbed has redefined networking for the cloud with an SD-WAN solution that is application and software-defined, and delivers unprecedented simplicity and agility. The market has responded with hundreds of customers deploying our SD-WAN solutions to date. With today’s SteelConnect and SteelHead SD launches, Riverbed is taking cloud networking one step further, with a new integrated offering driven by customer demand, and updates that deliver greater scalability, and superior network agility and cloud performance.”

“In today’s cloud era, legacy approaches to networking which are hardware-centric, rigid and error-prone are preventing businesses from moving forward,” said Paul O’Farrell, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Riverbed’s SteelConnect, SteelHead, and SteelFusion business units. “Riverbed has redefined networking for the cloud with an SD-WAN solution that is application and software-defined, and delivers unprecedented simplicity and agility. The market has responded with hundreds of customers deploying our SD-WAN solutions to date. With today’s SteelConnect and SteelHead SD launches, Riverbed is taking cloud networking one step further, with a new integrated offering driven by customer demand, and updates that deliver greater scalability, and superior network agility and cloud performance.”

Riverbed SteelConnect is a unique software-defined and application-centric solution that delivers the agility, visibility, and performance that businesses need to succeed in the cloud era. It is the industry’s first and only SD-WAN solution to unify network connectivity and policy-based orchestration of application delivery across hybrid WANs, cloud networks – including one-click connectivity to AWS and Azure – and branch LAN/WLANs. SteelConnect is seamlessly integrated as part of the broader Riverbed Application Performance Platform™, combining end-to-end performance management, WAN optimization, and software-defined edge IT solutions, integrated into a complete application delivery architecture for the digital enterprise.

Riverbed SteelConnect is a unique software-defined and application-centric solution that delivers the agility, visibility, and performance that businesses need to succeed in the cloud era. It is the industry’s first and only SD-WAN solution to unify network connectivity and policy-based orchestration of application delivery across hybrid WANs, cloud networks – including one-click connectivity to AWS and Azure – and branch LAN/WLANs. SteelConnect is seamlessly integrated as part of the broader Riverbed Application Performance Platform™, combining end-to-end performance management, WAN optimization, and software-defined edge IT solutions, integrated into a complete application delivery architecture for the digital enterprise.

“The digitalization at Maersk Line has been significant,” said Andy Laurence, Head of Production Services at Maersk Group Infrastructure Services, a unit responsible for the Maersk Line IT infrastructure. “Five years ago, 20% of our revenue was digital, and today it's over 90%. As we continue on our digital journey, having a scalable and stable digital platform infrastructure and end-to-end visibility across our digital services and into the cloud is critical.”

“The digitalization at Maersk Line has been significant,” said Andy Laurence, Head of Production Services at Maersk Group Infrastructure Services, a unit responsible for the Maersk Line IT infrastructure. “Five years ago, 20% of our revenue was digital, and today it's over 90%. As we continue on our digital journey, having a scalable and stable digital platform infrastructure and end-to-end visibility across our digital services and into the cloud is critical.”