INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
BT becomes first global
network provider to offer
riverbed solution
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BT Connect Intelligence Riverbed gives
customers more timely information about
how application data crosses their Wide
Area Network (WAN). According to John
Robertson, Vice President for Global Service
Providers at Riverbed: “The SteelCentral
visibility solution, delivered from BT’s
cloud and ‘as a service’, gives the most
comprehensive, integrated and unified
solution for monitoring and managing the
entire digital experience.”
Offered with simple, predictable and
flexible pricing options based on usage,
it’s available with three different service
levels – Visibility-as-a-Service (VaaS)
Bronze, VaaS Silver and VaaS Gold. It
includes consultancy, reporting, design and
implementation as well as global support.
Neil Sutton, Vice President, Strategy and
Strategic Alliances at BT
W
hether it’s employees
collaborating using the latest
unified communication tools or
customers contacting service teams via video
or web chat, users of corporate applications
expect high-quality experiences. With a
growing number of enterprises moving these
and other critical applications to the cloud
and adopting new digital strategies across the
rest of the business, it’s never been quite as
important to have a clear view and control of
what’s happening on the corporate network
to ensure great user experiences and manage
operational risk.
That’s why BT has become the first network
services provider to offer Riverbed’s
SteelCentral Visibility solution ‘as a service’
to enterprises globally.
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Customers can try it without any significant
cost outlay. A base level service can be
deployed and then built up quickly and easily
as needed. BT experts are also available
to help customers understand any issues
identified by the platform and advise on how
to resolve them.
Neil Sutton, Vice President, Strategy and
Strategic Alliances at BT, said: “We’ve
designed this new 24/7 service, leveraging
Riverbed’s technology, to give global
enterprises a managed and cost-effective
way to deliver the very best user experience
as part of their Digital Transformation
journey with BT.
“It makes it less risky to model and adopt
cloud and hybrid networks for key business
applications and helps customers implement
new technology strategies such as Big Data
analytics and IoT, with confidence.”
The launch follows BT’s integration of the
Riverbed Digital Performance Platform into its
network and cloud-operated service model.
This allows it to offer the Riverbed capability
as a service via its network to customers both
in the UK and internationally.
The service is available in 89 countries and
leverages BT’s global network reach. It builds
on BT’s established relationship with Riverbed,
which includes a traditional hardware-based
version of the solution as well as a virtual
network function (VNF) which runs on the BT
Connect Services Platform.
In both cases, BT offers a managed solution
combining the best of Riverbed technology
with BT’s long-standing expertise and
support structure which are behind the many
global deployments already in place.
It is the latest development in BT’s
Dynamic Network Services programme,
designed to give customers more choice,
security, resilience, service and agility in the
rollout of future networks that support their
Digital Transformation. n
THE MOST
COMPREHENSIVE,
INTEGRATED
AND UNIFIED
SOLUTION FOR
MONITORING AND
MANAGING THE
ENTIRE DIGITAL
EXPERIENCE.
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