Riverbed SteelCentral Portal Integrates Siloed Information
Riverbed Technology (RVBD) is looking to give IT administrators the ability to consolidate their siloed performance information in a single pane of glass with the launch of Riverbed SteelCentral Portal, a software solution designed to curate data from hybrid IT environments.
Riverbed Technology (RVBD) is looking to give IT administrators the ability to consolidate their siloed performance information in a single pane of glass with the launch of Riverbed SteelCentral Portal, a software solution designed to curate data from hybrid IT environments.
The solution is expected to provide companies with a simultaneous view of their performance information from network, end user experience and applications domains through a single window to eliminate confusion and help teams solve application performance issues.
SteelCentral Portal provides stakeholders with a customizable graphical dashboard with information tailored to their needs, according to the company. Administrators also can drill down further into a single piece of data to analyze specific problems.The solution blends performance data from SteelCentral visibility and SteelHead optimization and control solutions, two of Riverbed’s flagship central management and optimization solutions.
“Our customers need rich, horizontal visibility to break down common silos and see every aspect of application performance across today’s hybrid enterprises,” said Mike Sargent, senior vice president and general manager of SteelCentral at Riverbed, in a statement. “With this unparalleled level of both broad and deep visibility, IT teams can more quickly identify root causes of performance issues and drill down to fix them fast.”
By bringing cross-domain teams together under a single solution, Riverbed expects to eliminate some of the fragmentation associated with solving problems in siloed instances. To accomplish this, the SteelCentral portal includes visibility tools and solutions such as SteelCentral AppInternals and AppResponse for application performance management data, as well as NetProfiler and NetSensor for network performance management data.
Additional features in SteelCentral Portal include graphical application discovery and data-driven metric guidance to visualize issues and choose the most actionable metrics, respectively. Finally, integration with AppResonse and NetProfiler allows IT teams to look at both optimized and non-optimized traffic within their networks, according to Riverbed.
In December, Riverbed was acquired for $3.6 billion by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo and Teacher’s Private Capital. The transaction is scheduled to close during the first half of 2015.
The company announced In February that it had sold its SteelApp application delivery controller business to networking solutions vendor Brocade (BRCD) in an all-cash deal scheduled to close in May. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
