03 November 2017

Riverbed Technology says the latest version of SteelCentral empowers customers to measure and troubleshoot all parts of the “digital experience”, from the user device to the backend network, infrastructure, cloud and application.

The new release features integration between Riverbed’s SteelCentral Portal, SteelCentral Aternity and SteelCentral AppInternals. This means users can now incorporate the device-based view of the end user experience, thereby providing a single pane view of IT performance and its impact. 

In addition, the company says the integrated workflow between Aternity and AppInternals provides a single monitoring system for the entire end user service and allows IT to “rapidly” troubleshoot business-critical applications across devices.

The latest version of SteelCentral also introduces application migration planning and prediction. This is designed to enable network planning teams to simulate and predict traffic behaviour and impact on the network prior to application migrations.

Furthermore, AppInternals now enables IT operations and development teams to consume performance insights and diagnostics across the application lifecycle. Leveraging new REST APIs, they can add performance testing to their build tool chain and ensure that releases are optimised for production. Riverbed says operations teams can consume alerts on popular collaboration tools such as Slack and HipChat, while support teams can automatically open tickets on incident management tools to log issues, their root causes and diagnoses. In addition, teams can use the API to extract metrics and enrich existing reports and tools.

Riverbed has also introduced a new integration between NetProfiler and NetIM to help network managers understand the impact of infrastructure on network performance.