This paper examines the trends driving the shift towards highly virtualized software based cloud environments and how new software-defined architectures are required for organizations to make this shift. Download this ESG brief now to find out how Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager can help organizations keep up with demands in a highly virtualized and dynamic software-defined data center environment.

Major IT developments such as virtualization, cloud initiatives, and the explosion of content and big data pose significant challenges for WAN and LAN performance, reliability, and flexibility. Riverbed Technology offers Cascade® application-aware network performance management that enables end-to-end visibility into the performance of critical business applications. Download this paper to learn the ROI and achieved benefits from using Cascade products.

The focus on optimizing IT investments in combination with public and private cloud trends will drive core demand for Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), for a variety of use cases including load balancing, security, optimizing reliability, and enhancing the performance of a variety of end-user applications. This paper discusses the role that Riverbed Technology plays in this growing market for ADCs.

This Technology Spotlight describes the evolving requirements for IT to meet end-user performance expectations and the need for application delivery. In addition, this paper discusses benefits and challenges associated with application delivery solutions and trends driving growth. Finally, the paper looks at the role of Riverbed Technology as it plays a part in innovating in this strategically important market.

As reliance on cloud environments increases, organizations will need to address challenges in regard to networks and application delivery. This paper details questions posed by Riverbed Technology to Lucinda Borovick, program vice president of IDC’s Enterprise Communications and Datacenter Networks practice, on behalf of Riverbed Technology’s customers.

Riverbed has partnered with VMware to integrate the Stingray Traffic Manager application delivery controller (ADC), with VMware vFabric Application Director hybrid cloud application provisioning solution, enabling customers to provision and scale high performing multi-tier applications faster in a hybrid cloud environment, enabling higher level of application portability across cloud services and repeatable deployments of selected applications with standard deployment settings.

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute websites provide a platform for academics to access and compare research data. The solution Riverbed Stingray provided means the core web team can now make configuration changes in a matter of minutes and set up new sites quickly, giving the Institute confidence that researchers can locate and use information without fear of crashing the entire network.

IT departments must be able to support the needs of business and deliver capacity as needed. A big part of that need is leveraging public clouds. But public cloud usage within most enterprises today is a far cry from what’s needed, or wanted, by the enterprise CIO. HP CloudSystem offers an answer. With HP CloudSystem, you can safely burst workloads […]