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“Our Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics solutions are a core and integral part of SteelCentral, the command center for application performance,” Sargent continued. “With our strong positions in both Gartner’s NPMD and APM Magic Quadrants, we believe Riverbed SteelCentral is now recognized as the undisputed leader in end-to-end performance management across networks and applications.”

SD-WAN solutions streamline and simplify how hybrid WANs are deployed and managed, enabling IT to provide fast and secure delivery of applications hosted on-premises or in the public cloud with greater agility and ease. The SD-WAN market is expected to grow significantly in the next several years. According to Gartner, “by the end of 2019, 30% of enterprises will use SD-WAN products in all their branch offices, up from less than 1% today.” (Gartner, Inc., Market Guide for Software-Defined WAN, Bjarne Munch, December 1, 2015)

SD-WAN solutions streamline and simplify how hybrid WANs are deployed and managed, enabling IT to provide fast and secure delivery of applications hosted on-premises or in the public cloud with greater agility and ease. The SD-WAN market is expected to grow significantly in the next several years. According to Gartner, “by the end of 2019, 30% of enterprises will use SD-WAN products in all their branch offices, up from less than 1% today.” (Gartner, Inc., Market Guide for Software-Defined WAN, Bjarne Munch, December 1, 2015)

A series of pilots of the new capability showed substantial network performance improvements for SaaS applications such as the Microsoft Office 365 productivity suite.

A series of pilots of the new capability showed substantial network performance improvements for SaaS applications such as the Microsoft Office 365 productivity suite.

These new enhancements to SteelCentral bring major advances in collaborative troubleshooting capabilities. While new features are being released in key components of the platform – including enhancements in Portal, AppInternals, AppResponse, NetAuditor, NetShark, NetPlanner and NetSensor – they support a common theme of improved platform integration while enhancing several powerful capabilities, including expanded network and application visibility; superior end-to-end application transaction monitoring; and more cost-effective Web application and WAN-optimization monitoring.

These new enhancements to SteelCentral bring major advances in collaborative troubleshooting capabilities. While new features are being released in key components of the platform – including enhancements in Portal, AppInternals, AppResponse, NetAuditor, NetShark, NetPlanner and NetSensor – they support a common theme of improved platform integration while enhancing several powerful capabilities, including expanded network and application visibility; superior end-to-end application transaction monitoring; and more cost-effective Web application and WAN-optimization monitoring.

"As a major broadcast media company, we must always achieve high performance from our ad-serving application running at our remote broadcast stations, or we risk losing a lot of money,” said David Giambruno, CIO at Tribune Media. “As a Riverbed SteelFusion and VMware user, the seamless integration of VMware vSphere into our SteelFusion devices helps us to run an extremely agile IT business, with all operations for this business-critical app being run centrally from our datacenter. As a result of SteelFusion, we have eliminated the infrastructure previously required in our broadcast facilities, and we can quickly and easily provision app updates or entirely new facilities without any compromise to the performance we expect.”

"As a major broadcast media company, we must always achieve high performance from our ad-serving application running at our remote broadcast stations, or we risk losing a lot of money,” said David Giambruno, CIO at Tribune Media. “As a Riverbed SteelFusion and VMware user, the seamless integration of VMware vSphere into our SteelFusion devices helps us to run an extremely agile IT business, with all operations for this business-critical app being run centrally from our datacenter. As a result of SteelFusion, we have eliminated the infrastructure previously required in our broadcast facilities, and we can quickly and easily provision app updates or entirely new facilities without any compromise to the performance we expect.”

The Riverbed SteelHead integration with Wind River’s Titanium Server is designed to equip service providers with complete application visibility, optimization and control across software-defined wide area networks (WANs), resulting in superior application performance, reduced downtime, and an improved ability to meet and exceed service level agreements (SLAs) with their customers. Together, Riverbed and Wind River enable service providers to orchestrate SteelHead so that they can take advantage of SteelHead’s industry-leading WAN optimization capabilities including: