Riverbed Technology introduces a virtual edition of Riverbed Cascade Express 460, which provides visibility into private cloud or software-defined data center environments running virtualized networks so IT teams can quickly view network and application performance and troubleshoot issues before end users notice.
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WhyVirtualize Cascade Express?
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● Cascade Express 460 appliance is very popular
– Rapid growth
– High uptake by Steelhead customers
– Gartner NPMD magic quadrant leader
● Need for virtualized monitoring growing
– 53% of x86 workloads were virtualized in 2013 and this is
expected to grow to 70% in 2015 (Forester)
– 75% of enterprises use some sort of cloud (GigaOm)
• IaaSis fastest growing, with usage increasing from 35% to 45% YoY
– 34% have deployed or are testing SDN overlay networks while
another 50% are evaluating or researching (EMA)
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Cascade Express 460 Virtual Edition
● A virtualized, all-in-one network performance monitoring
solution that deploys easily so IT teams can quickly
identify network and application performance issues and
troubleshoot them before end users even notice. It can
be deployed:
– By companies that have fully embraced virtualization
– Within software-defined datacenters using virtual
networks
– By SMEs as an alternative to the hardware appliance
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Full NPMD Capabilities
● All of the same capabilities of a full Cascade solution:
– End-to-end visibility into network and application performance
– Service dashboards that provide an at-a-glance view into the
health of an application or location.
– Automated dependency mapping
– Analytics: automated baselining and anomaly detection provides
early warning of problematic trends
– Enterprise-class flow monitoring tightly integrated with world-
class packet capture and packet analysis
– Simple yet powerful, top-down workflow paradigm that
streamlines problem isolation and diagnosis
– Industry-leading virtualization support
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Comprehensive, Unified Visibility
● Flow data provides cost-effective end-to-end visibility
● Packet data provides detailed visibility into application performance – where needed
● Combines both packet and flow in single logical, de-duplicated record
− Share knowledge – associate application tagging by one source across all sources in aggregate flow
− Correlate info from different devices for end-to-end visibility into conversations
− Seamless transition from business-level views to technical details
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PACKETS
METRICS
UNIFIED DATA STORE
INTERNET
WAN
Single logical,
de-duplicated
record
FLOWS
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Streamlined Troubleshooting
Service-level dashboard
Understand dependencies via
automated discovery
Fast, flexible drill down to incident
report or traffic metrics
Automated analytics
Seamlessly drill-down into packets
Packet-level / transaction analysis
in Cascade Pilot
Integrated with Wireshark
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Virtualization Leader
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Server
Virtualization
• VMware vSphere
Desktop/App
Virtualization
• Citrix XenApp
• VMware View
Network
Virtualization
• VMware NSX
Supports all forms of virtualization monitoring: