Riverbed announced support for Amazon
Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) traffic mirroring from Amazon Web
Services (AWS), with a new solution announced at AWS re:Inforce 2019.
With SteelCentral AppResponse Cloud, Riverbed support will allow
network and cloud operations teams to gain network-based application
performance management that quickly surfaces performance anomalies
across the entire hybrid enterprise. SteelCentral AppResponse Cloud is
part of Riverbed's Digital Experience Management platform, which enables
organizations to measure, analyze and manage the user's digital
experience.
While
cloud platforms offer incredible scale and agility, they also create
performance blind spots that can impact the user's digital experience.
IT teams are often unable to detect problems in cloud environments
before they affect users due to the distributed, transitory nature of
cloud ecosystems and the lack of end-to-end visibility. In fact, 60% of
IT managers said end users were likely to notice performance problems in
the cloud before IT does.
SteelCentral
AppResponse Cloud, a network-based application performance management
solution, connects with Amazon VPC traffic mirroring to analyze
cloud-based application payloads at scale. Amazon VPC traffic mirroring
is a virtual network tap that enables monitoring of network traffic in
Amazon VPC. Riverbed worked with Amazon Web Services to natively connect
SteelCentral AppResponse Cloud with Amazon VPC traffic mirroring to
deliver a passive and agentless approach to network packet capture and
analysis in the cloud.
"Riverbed's
SteelCentral AppResponse Cloud uses Amazon VPC traffic mirroring from
Amazon Web Services to provide rich, unparalleled network and
application visibility into AWS. Riverbed enables IT Operations to
quickly pinpoint performance degradations and high latency in cloud and
hybrid networks, automatically identify more than 2,000 applications for
detailed application analysis, as well as identify and troubleshoot
issues faster and easier with aggregated traffic," said Mike Sargent,
Senior Vice President, General Manager- SteelCentral, at Riverbed. "As
an industry leader in Digital Experience Management solutions and a
six-time Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Performance
Management and Diagnostics, we are proud to collaborate with AWS in
bringing such a vital solution to the market."
With
the introduction of Amazon VPC traffic mirroring, SteelCentral
AppResponse Cloud can connect with a native source of packet traffic to
effectively address network and application performance management use
cases, including:
- Monitoring the health and performance of networks and networked applications
- Troubleshooting network and application service problems
- Network capacity planning and management
- Cloud application assessments and migration planning
- Security monitoring and incident response