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As organizations consolidate their IT environments through cloud computing, server virtualization and data center consolidation, they're moving users further away from their applications. This can result in slower performance, increased bandwidth costs, and new security risks. Unfortunately, most companies find it difficult to assess these risks and adapt their infrastructure accordingly.
Don’t consolidate your infrastructure until you have the right tools in place. Learn how to fix network issues before the first call to IT help desk.
Riverbed Technology gives you a complete solution to optimize your network and gain visibility into your top network challenges. During WAN optimization projects, you can analyze what's on the network to discover optimization candidates, quantify optimization benefits, size your deployment of Steelhead® appliances from Riverbed®, and plan for future growth.
For application performance management, Cascade® monitors applications and uses behavioral analytics to alert you when there are changes from normal behavior. For IT consolidation projects, you can use Cascade to expedite the discovery and dependency-mapping phase. Cascade finds which applications are running on your network, who's using them, and which devices are used to deliver each application, so you can minimize risks during a data center change.
Cascade comprehensive solution:
- Provides a fully integrated network monitoring and acceleration solution
- Discovers servers, network paths, applications, and users across the IT infrastructure and analyzes dependencies
- Identifies assets and applications, understands usage, identifies bandwidth utilization by application, and forecasts capacity needs
- Provides business-level information to help you avoid costly security and performance events
- Reports on application response time and network latency across optimized and non-optimized environments
"After evaluating solutions from several vendors, we decided that Riverbed offered a product that could provide us with a clear and immediate picture of activity on our internal network and grant us the ability to respond efficiently and effectively to internal threats."
— David Olbrys, Global Infrastructure Security Coordinator, Cabot
We realize your business has to run at optimal speed now and in the future. You need visibility into your IT infrastructure when applications slow down, when end users experience performance problems, and when unauthorized applications or malware create performance and security issues. Cascade solutions can help your business solve operational problems that impact employee productivity.
Cascade solutions proactively monitors application and network performance from the end-user perspective. It finds out if application and network problems are slowing users down anywhere on your network, including remote offices optimized with Riverbed Steelhead appliances. It monitors the infrastructure transparently, without the need for expensive new hardware or application modifications.
If you are consolidating data centers or moving to cloud-based solutions, Riverbed can also help. Cascade solutions has embedded discovery and dependency mapping capabilities, and can discover applications, servers, and users throughout your network in a matter of hours. You get consolidation benefits faster and reduce the risk of outages.
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Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Network teams are expected to do more than ever before. They need to monitor and predict application performance, maintain service level agreements, prevent security breaches, and monitor external service providers.
However, when network management toolsets become outdated and expensive to maintain, they don’t provide a full picture of the modern IT environment, so visibility into infrastructure can become a challenge.
Riverbed solutions takes network optimization to the next level, allowing organizations to constantly assess, accelerate, and adapt their IT infrastructure. The Cascade product family monitor applications and use behavioral analytics to alert IT when there are changes from normal behavior. With end-to-end application health monitoring and rapid navigation from business-level dashboards to packet-level analysis, IT is equipped to support broad business goals:
Support growth and productivity: Keep critical applications running at top speed
Mitigate risks: Stop infrastructure problems in their tracks and help the business avoid revenue loss
Reduce IT costs: Leverage Steelhead® WAN optimization appliances for branch monitoring, reporting, and packet capture
Figure 1: Riverbed solutions help manage change in the IT infrastructure to ensure the availability, performance, and security of business services while reducing costs and meeting regulatory requirements.
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Security
Identify threats, protect against attacks, and accelerate remediation
Network defenses such as intrusion detection / prevention systems (IDS/IPS), firewalls, and antivirus software are critical first measures of defense, but have limitations that prevent complete protection of enterprise networks. They fail to defend against advanced persistent threats (APTs), internally instigated or credentialed attacks, or zero-day threats. They add expense and management complexity. And they can introduce performance bottlenecks and points of failure into the very networks they are trying to secure.
Cascade products and Riverbed Stingray™ Application Firewall provide a uniquely scalable and easily deployed approach to improving application and network security.
With Cascade products, information security teams can address a broad range of security and governance challenges, including targeted malware, APTs, fraud, espionage and forensic audits.
Through the sharing of intelligence and control with other products on the network, Cascade enables greater situational awareness, faster threat detection, more comprehensive incident response and triage, and better understanding of an event’s impact on the network as well as the business.
With Stingray Application Firewall it’s possible to protect against known and unknown attacks at the application layer, secure applications, and meet compliance requirements with confidence.
Figure 1: Riverbed enables organizations to monitor, centralize, and secure applications, complimenting and enhancing a broader security framework.
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Discovery
Major IT projects and day-to-day network management have something in common: the need to know what is running on the network and who is using it. Service maps are invaluable tools for accelerating the planning and reducing the risk of many IT change projects, including data center consolidations, cloud and virtualization projects, disaster recovery, and more.
Cascade is an application-aware network performance management solution with easy-to-use, wizard-based discovery and dependency capabilities that automate the process of mapping transactions and applications to the underlying infrastructure and application interdependencies. Cascade solution components passively analyze historical and real-time network traffic behavior to quickly provide information about the interactions, usage, and dependencies between users, applications, and servers – without the need for agents or scans. Detailed and accurate service maps containing this information provide an end-to-end view of application dependencies across any IT infrastructure, including all virtualized environments.
The Cascade solution helps organizations achieve the following business benefits:
Support growth and productivity: Complete projects up to 66% faster
Enhance risk mitigation: Prevent downtime from failed cutovers
Realize cost savings: Reduce discovery costs by up to half
Figure 1 & 2: With complete visibility into multi tier applications through discovery and dependency mapping, Riverbed enables organizations to accelerate consolidation projects, cloud initiatives, and other IT projects.
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Quality of Service (QoS) Management
Banish uncertainty and avoid bandwidth upgrades
For an IT architect or manager responsible for designing and running enterprise networks, the increasingly complex mix of applications, platforms, and data re-affirms the need to pay the utmost attention to maintaining control over deployed applications to ensure both predictability and performance to end users within the enterprise.
Riverbed QoS delivers a unique combination of best-of-breed classification and an advanced, unique scheduling technique based on Hierarchical Fair Service Curve (HFSC). This combination addresses the need for the accurate classification of applications, the allocation of minimum and maximum bandwidths, and the ability to prioritize applications based on their latency sensitivity, which is not possible with most other approaches.
The Cascade solution helps organizations achieve the following business benefits:
Support growth and productivity: Ensure business critical application performance
Enhance risk mitigation: Eliminate the uncertainty of application delivery in the face of network contention
Realize cost savings: Avoid bandwidth upgrades and eliminate dedicated QoS appliances
Figure 1: Riverbed WAN optimization solution provides QoS policies definition and enforcement capabilities allowing organizations to control application performance
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Traffic Management and Policy Scripting
Fine-grained control over application traffic
Whether running a corporate application, an ecommerce website, or an intranet, limited resources, greedy or malicious users, and poorly performing applications can make it a challenge to ensure service level delivery. Organizations need to be able to easily and non-intrusively apply policies to guarantee certain levels of service for some users, restrict the activities of others, and to prioritize transactions.
Riverbed Stingray™ TrafficScript makes it easy to create and apply powerful traffic management rules that define how Stingray Traffic Manager software handles application traffic. Organizations can use the simple programming language to write scripts that inspect and modify requests and responses as they pass through Stingray Traffic Manager. With this added level of control, organizations can realize critical business benefits:
Support growth and productivity: Improve service levels to boost employee productivity and prioritize revenue-generating traffic
Enhance risk mitigation: Rapidly address security vulnerabilities, such as masking social security numbers
Save money: Control the consumption of server and bandwidth resources to ensure utilization aligns with business goals
Figure 1: With Riverbed, organizations can define application delivery rules for optimal performance, security, and utilization.
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We realize your business has to run at optimal speed now and in the future. You need visibility into your IT infrastructure when applications slow down, when end users experience performance problems, and when unauthorized applications or malware create performance and security issues. Cascade solutions can help your business solve operational problems that impact employee productivity.
Cascade solutions proactively monitors application and network performance from the end-user perspective. It finds out if application and network problems are slowing users down anywhere on your network, including remote offices optimized with Riverbed Steelhead appliances. It monitors the infrastructure transparently, without the need for expensive new hardware or application modifications.
If you are consolidating data centers or moving to cloud-based solutions, Riverbed can also help. Cascade solutions have embedded discovery and dependency mapping capabilities, and can discover applications, servers, and users throughout your network in a matter of hours. You get consolidation benefits faster and reduce the risk of outages.
"After evaluating solutions from several vendors, we decided that Riverbed offered a product that could provide us with a clear and immediate picture of activity on our internal network and grant us the ability to respond efficiently and effectively to internal threats."
— David Olbrys, Global Infrastructure Security Coordinator, Cabot
Accelerate Network Performance
Optimize the network thoroughly with every application, user, and device. Make better business decisions that save money and resources.
- Understand what performance level users are experiencing, and whether service-level agreements are being met
- Reduce help desk costs by identifying and resolving problems faster
- See which applications or users are slowing down the network
- Forecast WAN optimization and bandwidth capacity needs
- Accelerate discovery and dependency mapping using Cascade solutions' unique end-to-end view of the application delivery path, to save time and money during IT consolidation projects
Minimize Business Service Outages With Network Troubleshooting
Cascade solutions detect service disruptions early, so you can reduce risk and get back up and running more quickly.
- Monitor end-user activity and provide alerts to IT before users call to complain
- Get consistent metrics for all environments — optimized or not. Reduce the time required to restore disrupted services and minimize the operating cost.
- Reduce the number of service-affecting incidents, and maximize service income
- Reduce revenue loss from business service disruptions. Cascade solutions' unique end-to-end view of the application delivery path helps IT understand the relationships between applications, networks, and servers.
Cut Costs & Realize ROI
Target investments that actually cut costs.
- Prioritize applications that would most benefit from optimization, so you can focus capital expenditures for best results
- Avoid costly bandwidth upgrades, by using Cascade solutions for assessment and Steelhead for acceleration
- Identify and minimize non-business use of expensive WAN resources
- Reduce capital expenditures required to reach full application deployment
- Realize ROI on cost-cutting projects including WAN optimization, private and public clouds, server virtualization, and disaster recovery
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We know expectations from network teams are growing. You need to monitor and predict application performance, maintain service level agreements, prevent security breaches, and monitor external service providers.
However, when network management toolsets become outdated and expensive to maintain, they don’t provide a full picture of the modern IT environment, so visibility into your infrastructure can become a challenge.
Cascade takes network optimization to the next level, allowing you to constantly assess, accelerate, and adapt your IT infrastructure. It’s useful for keeping critical applications running at top speed, identifying unauthorized systems on the network, and identifying underutilized servers that can be consolidated or eliminated.
Cascade collects and analyzes vast amounts of network flow data and enhances it with application and user identification. Deploying Cascade is easy and cost-effective. It won’t require significant capital and operational expenditures to install and maintain. The GUI allows you to drill down to WAN and LAN information at any level and offers a wide variety of metrics and reports. With Cascade, you can stop infrastructure problems in their tracks and help the business avoid revenue loss.
Run An Efficient Infrastructure
Manage change in the IT infrastructure to ensure the availability, performance, and security of business services. Reduce costs and satisfy regulatory requirements.
- Manage application performance — Proactively assure service delivery with Cascade's behavioral analytics, which alert you to performance problems faster than the end-user can
- Drill into network information with a full set of application-centric, site-centric, and business-centric views
- Get visibility into WAN and virtualized environments — Get full visibility into traditionally "blind" environments such as optimized WANs and virtualized systems
- Automated regulatory compliance — Use reporting capabilities to support automated planning and policy enforcement and reduce the effort and cost required to support audits
- Consolidate data center — Application discovery and dependency mapping provides the information needed for proper planning. Change impact information ensures smooth implementation.
- Improve security — Identify hard to detect security threats such as zero-day attacks, "boutique" malware, and credentialed attacks
Solve Infrastructure Problems Faster
Cascade detects service disruptions early through behavioral analytics. Reduce risk, resolve disruptions quickly, and save money.
- Get reports on application response time, throughput, and other metrics across optimized and non-optimized environments
- Reduce the number of service-affecting incidents, and maximize service income
- Reduce revenue loss from business service disruptions. Cascade's unique end-to-end view of the application delivery path helps IT understand the relationships between applications, networks, and servers.
- Define service-level objectives, monitor for service-level changes, and enforce usage policies with Cascade
Achieve Cost Savings
Avoid disruptions, avoid bandwidth upgrades, and reduce overall operational expenses.
- Significantly reduce capital expenditures required to reach full deployment. Install Cascade with minimal deployment of devices such as IDS sensors or network probes. The model scales by the number of data centers, rather than the number of WAN links or remote sites.
- Reduce the overall operational expense of network, application, and security management processes
- Immediately identify internal or credentialed attacks, unauthorized applications, hosts, or servers on the network with automated alerts
- Avoid costly bandwidth upgrades, by using Cascade for assessment and Steelhead for acceleration
- Identify and minimize non-business use of expensive WAN resources
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