Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 29 | Page 22

LATEST INTELLIGENCE RIVERBED: NETWORK PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR MODERN BUSINESS PRESENTED BY Download whitepaper here Abstract: The IT pendulum is swinging from consolidated to distributed environments, creating more complexity, causing network requirements to rapidly evolve, and necessitating organizations to rethink network performance management (NPM) strategies. With maturing digital transformation initiatives, networks must support highly distributed applications and user environments. As a result, these operations teams require holistic visibility across the hybrid network and network devices to ensure optimal application performance and an enhanced user experience. Deploying a unified network performance management solution allows organizations to leverage device, flow- and packet-based monitoring. In turn, the benefits derived from a more mature and holistic approach include faster troubleshooting, more effective collaboration between applications and development teams, and proactive enforcement of SLAs, yielding better user experiences. Riverbed NPM offers unified network performance management, expanding visibility across clouds, IoT, and at the edge – enabling organizations to realize improved performance management across highly distributed environments.. Enterprise Environments Are Rapidly Evolving IT environments are becoming more complex. According to ESG research, two-thirds (66%) of IT professionals say that IT is more complex than it was two years ago. 1 Now, the IT pendulum is swinging toward distributed environments – applications are housed in on-premises data centers, in public clouds (both IaaS and SaaS), and at the edge (ROBOs and more). Existing application architectures span monolithic, service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and microservices. Networks can range from physical to 22 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com