Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Visibility & Management Solutions
Riverbed Cascade^® offers superior network and application visibility for your business. Cascade is an application-aware network performance management solution that you can use for network monitoring, network analysis and troubleshooting, dependency mapping, IT consolidation and security. It alerts you to problems before end-users are impacted, you can respond to IT performance problems faster and easier. The result? Higher application performance, improved employee productivity, and reduced operational costs.

As organizations consolidate their IT environments through cloud computing, server virtualization and data center consolidation, they're moving users further away from their applications. This can result in slower performance, increased bandwidth costs, and new security risks. Unfortunately, most companies find it difficult to assess these risks and adapt their infrastructure accordingly.

Riverbed Technology gives you a complete solution to optimize your network and gain visibility into your top network challenges. During WAN optimization projects, you can analyze what's on the network to discover optimization candidates, quantify optimization benefits, size your deployment of Steelhead® appliances from Riverbed®, and plan for future growth.

For application performance management, Cascade monitors applications and uses behavioral analytics to alert you when there are changes from normal behavior. For IT consolidation projects, you can use Cascade to expedite the discovery and dependency mapping phase. Cascade finds which applications are running on your network, who's using them, and which devices are used to deliver each application, so you can minimize risks during a data center change.

Cascade comprehensive solution:

• Provides a fully integrated network monitoring and acceleration solution
• Discovers servers, network paths, applications, and users across the IT infrastructure and analyzes dependencies
• Identifies assets and applications, understands usage, identifies bandwidth utilization by application, and forecasts capacity needs
• Provides business-level information to help you avoid costly security and performance events
• Reports on application response time and network latency across optimized and non-optimized environments