Not just reporting, but business-oriented analytics

Enterprises often turn to WAN optimization to overcome application performance problems that they know exist. But enterprises also turn to WAN optimization solutions to give the visibility needed in order to determine where problems exist, analyze how those problems can be addressed, and then tune infrastructure in order to best solve those problems. Complete WAN optimization solutions not only provide order of magnitude performance improvements, but the ability to measure and monitor those improvements across optimized locations and sites that could benefit from further optimization.

Visibility and analytics goes well beyond simple reporting that confirms whether the infrastructure is up and running. True optimization oriented visibility breaks down data into a deeper understanding into how applications are performing, analytics that set alerts when anomalous performance is detected, and details on which sites can benefit most from further optimization.

This type of visibility can impact many different initiatives:

• Implementing and managing service level agreements (SLAs)
• Accelerating troubleshooting and mean time to respond (MTTR) to incidents
• Determining the impact of application acceleration and WAN optimization
• Analyzing future IT investments in relation to business priorities

Riverbed provides visibility and analytics that help businesses respond faster to problems and proactively invest where the business needs it the most

Businesses that drive higher visibility into their IT infrastructure can not only solve problems faster, but they can provide the data that provides meaningful management dashboards on how investments are paying off, where investments are needed, and how to better align IT investments with the business. For more information, read more about the Riverbed Cascade product line.