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Riverbed launches Cascade Express 460 Virtual Edition

21 May 2014

Riverbed Technology has announced a virtual edition of Riverbedâ Cascadeâ Express 460, which provides visibility into private cloud or software-defined data centre environments running virtualised networks.

Riverbed launches Cascade Express 460 Virtual Edition

Recognised by Gartner as the only "leader" in the magic quadrants for both Application Performance Monitoring (2013) and Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (2014), the Riverbed Performance Management family of products combine user experience and application and network performance management to detect and enable customers to resolve issues before they impact on end-users.

"Software-defined data centres built on private cloud technology offer tremendous savings and flexibility, so businesses are increasingly adopting this approach to provision new services on demand," said Dimitri Vlachos, vice-president of marketing and products of Riverbed. "Cascade Express Virtual Edition enables customers to leverage powerful computer and network virtualisation platforms while providing advanced application-aware network performance management. Customers gain a holistic view of their virtual and physical infrastructure, allowing them to have complete insight into application performance regardless of where the application is hosted and how it is delivered."

Capabilities

Riverbed Cascade Express Virtual Edition runs on VMware vSphereâ and includes the following capabilities:

End-to-end monitoring, analytics and reporting. Avoid impact to the business from bad apps with advanced analytics that automatically detect, isolate and pinpoint changes in performance. Map cloud application dependencies to accelerate troubleshooting across complex application ecosystems;

High-speed packet capture and storage with deep packet inspection of more than 1000 popular applications combined with robust flow collection and de-duplication for automated traffic and performance analysis;

A concurrent user licence of Riverbed Cascade Pilot for graphically analysing traffic data on the Cascade Express appliance without having to transfer large trace files across the network; and

Support for network virtualisation and overlay networks, such as VMware NSXTM, to give operations teams a unified view of network and application performance across the physical and virtual infrastructure.

"Network virtualisation transforms data centre network operations in the software-defined data centre," said Hatem Naguib, vice-president, networking and security of VMware. "By deploying Riverbed Cascade Express Virtual Edition in conjunction with our VMware NSXTM network virtualisation platform, customers can gain unified visibility into application and service delivery performance to help provide the best possible user experience."

As an example of the platform integrations and how the synergistic capabilities of Riverbed solutions benefit customers, organisations that have Riverbed Steelhead appliances can leverage this investment to send both flow and packet data to Riverbed Cascade Express 460 for detailed analysis of Steelhead-optimised WAN and quality-of-service (QoS) settings by application. Riverbed Cascade Express 460 analyses both non-optimised and optimised WAN environments, enabling IT teams to plan for WAN optimisation, assess the impact of the deployment and accurately quantify the benefits of WAN optimisation.