Riverbed Technology, a provider of application performance infrastructure, has launched Riverbed SteelCentral Portal, a software solution for managing application performance in hybrid IT environments.
SteelCentral Portal boasts a new approach to problem-solving with a holistic operational view of the complete IT environment. It blends data from all relevant sources into a single, actionable source of truth for stakeholders with easy to view graphical interfaces and application maps with the ability to drill down into specific performance information. These sources include Riverbed’s visibility tools and solutions: SteelCentral AppInternals and AppResponse for application performance management data, and NetProfiler and NetSensor for network performance management data.
For example, a cross-domain team can view common information about the performance of an application, the network, and how the end user is being affected through the Portal’s “High-Level Summary” view. Looking at the “Application Map” in this view, the application team can identify which application is the root cause and then drill down further to establish why, identifying issues such as newly installed application code.
SteelCentral Portal features include:
- Graphical application discovery: SteelCentral Portal takes an interactive, wizard-driven process to help IT teams discover and rapidly generate a service map.
- Data driven metric guidance: The solution includes out of the box workflows that assist administrators to select the “best” metrics based on available data. Administrators determine the information needed and SteelCentral Portal automatically curates different workflows based on available data sources. ††††††
- Efficient management reporting: SteelCentral Portal gives a central source of truth for application performance and supporting infrastructure.
- Relevant stakeholder views: The solution offers each stakeholder a role-based home page with custom and default dashboards.
- Monitor optimized and non-optimized traffic with SteelHead integration: With SteelHead appliances integrated with AppResponse or NetProfiler, IT teams can look across their network and view both non-optimized and optimized traffic. Regardless of whether the data resides in the data center, branch, or in the cloud, SteelCentral Portal users can drill down to understand which applications are optimized, how they’re running, and what users are doing with each of them.
“The world has shifted – for today’s enterprise, it’s all about the app. Our customers need rich, horizontal visibility to break down common siloes and see every aspect of application performance across today’s hybrid enterprises,” says Mike Sargent, senior vice president and general manager of SteelCentral at Riverbed. “With the launch of Riverbed’s new visibility solution, SteelCentral Portal, enterprise teams now have a robust, shared, easy-to-use view of end-to-end application performance. No competitor can match SteelCentral Portal’s unique combination of end-user experience monitoring, network performance management (NPM), and application performance management (APM) capabilities. 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.”
SteelCentral Portal is available now. For screenshots and further details, click here. A free trial download form is available here.†
