Cascade

Riverbed Cascade (formerly Mazu) Saves You Money

In today's economic environment, IT organizations need solutions that deliver a superior return on their investment. As hundreds of enterprise customers will attest, Riverbed Cascade® accelerates workflows, enhances existing management resources, optimizes the use of skilled resources, provides information to help you avoid costly security and performance events, and provides value across multiple operations groups. As a result, our customers save on both operating and capital expenditures.

Reduced MTTR

Cascade's unique end-to-end view of the application delivery path expedites the troubleshooting process for both security and application delivery events. As a result, IT understands the inter-relationships among all the applications and the network and server components that work together to deliver application services to business users.
Value Savings

• Behavioral analysis reduces the "alarm noise" typical of threshold-based solutions.
• Rich context alarms accelerate the resolution of application delivery events by pointing operations staff to most probable cause.
• Integrated data model rich integrations with other management tools streamline troubleshooting and planning workflows.

• Reduces revenue loss from business service disruptions.
• Reduces troubleshooting man-hour requirements of highly skilled network and security staff.

 

Minimal Hardware Deployment

One of the common contributors to Cascade’s success is its ability to provide such powerful functionality with a minimal deployment of devices. Our lightweight deployment model scales by number of data centers as opposed to WAN links or remote sites.
Value Savings

• Application response-time and layer 7 visibility into Web-based application traffic without the need to deploy large numbers of network probes.
• Compliance with intrusion detection regulatory requirements without large numbers of IDS sensors.
• Integration with existing data sources and management systems.

• Significantly reduces capital expenditures required to reach full deployment.
• Eliminates operations expenses related to maintaining remote hardware and agents.

 

Optimized Use of Skilled Staff

Riverbed's focus on ease of implementation and accelerating workflows reduces the amount of time spent by skilled staff on management processes.

Value Savings

• User-defined policies, self-learning analytics, and rich context alerting minimize the time spent interacting with the management system for planning, troubleshooting, and proactive management.
• Intuitive navigation and UI allow network, security, and data center personnel to view the same infrastructure from their unique perspectives.

• Increases the percentage of workflow that can be completed at a lower pay scale.
• Frees up highly skilled personnel for problem avoidance and planning activities, eliminating the need for costly outside resources.

 

Prioritized WAN Optimization

Riverbed Steelheads allow customers to avoid costly WAN upgrades while accelerating business traffic. Riverbed Cascade provides the visibility necessary to measure the benefit of optimization and prioritize its deployment where it will have the biggest affect on business acceleration.
Value Savings

• Layer 7 visibility into Web-based application traffic allows you to discriminate between non-business use of the Internet and Web-based business applications.
• Historical WAN utilization and end-to-end application delivery reports allow customers to identify where WAN congestion is adversely affecting business application delivery.

• Assists prioritization of WAN links that would most benefit from optimization, enabling you to focus capital expenditures for the best results.
• Identifies cases where bandwidth upgrades can be avoided, reducing ongoing WAN expense.

 

Minimize Business Service Outages

The Aberdeen Group estimates that, on average, outages and slowdowns affect revenues from business services by 9 percent. Riverbed Cascade has unique abilities that enable early detection of and assurance against service disruption.
Value Savings

• Advanced analytics provide early detection of changes in numbers of user connections, response time, network availability, and bandwidth utilization that will adversely affect delivery of key applications and services.
• Rich context information, including most probable cause, is provided to accelerate problem resolution.
• User-defined policies enable truly proactive service assurance by mitigating problem recurrence.

• Significant reduction in the time required to restore disrupted services minimizes the operating cost of problem resolution.
• Proactive assurance reduces the number of service-affecting incidents, thus maximizing services income.

 

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WAN optimization for your network: Application acceleration, WAN bandwidth optimization, and IT consolidation