IT solutions provider, Riverbed Technology has expanded its network performance management solution to address network and application performance issues across the three pillars of virtualisation.
According to the company, new capabilities within the Cascade 10.0 release deliver performance management for virtualised desktop infrastructure, server virtualisation and fully virtualised data centres using VXLAN software-defined networks.
In addition, the Riverbed Cascade product family is now offered as a comprehensive virtual portfolio, ready for deployment by service providers as well as in public, private and hybrid clouds, it notes.
"With the spread of private clouds and virtualisation, providers have been pushing for more control over the network. Current software-defined network overlay technologies being introduced by virtualisation technology providers have visibility gaps, which, in turn, causes visibility issues for network engineers responsible for application performance troubleshooting," says Jonah Kowall, research director at Gartner.
"Current monitoring and management tools must be updated and improved to see not only the traffic but the relevant additional data presented within these overlay technologies."
In a statement, the company notes that a major challenge facing IT organisations as they look to leverage the benefits of virtualisation across their entire infrastructures is the need to provide their operations teams with the ability to pinpoint, understand and troubleshoot performance issues within these virtualised environments.
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