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Riverbed Cascade
A New Way of Optimizing Network and Application Performance
A New Way of Optimizing Network and Application Performance
Gain full layer7 visibility into how your applications perform across their infrastructure.
As IT organizations strive to reduce costs through server consolidation, virtualization and datacenter transformation, the task of delivering robust business services becomes more difficult. Visibility to how applications traverse the infrastructure is reduced by virtualization and WAN optimization technologies.
The increased number of application delivery paths weighs against optimizing the entire delivery infrastructure through bandwidth upgrades, faster switching technologies and WAN optimization.
Even the idea of monitoring application response times with threshold based tools absorbs more labor hours than the average IT staff can spare.
How Can Cascade Help?
Riverbed Cascade provides the information you need to ensure maximum performance and availability of business services on an ongoing basis, including:
The increased number of application delivery paths weighs against optimizing the entire delivery infrastructure through bandwidth upgrades, faster switching technologies and WAN optimization.
Even the idea of monitoring application response times with threshold based tools absorbs more labor hours than the average IT staff can spare.
How Can Cascade Help?
Riverbed Cascade provides the information you need to ensure maximum performance and availability of business services on an ongoing basis, including:
Alerts to meaningful changes in activityCascade can alert you to meaningful changes in network activity that can affect performance and availability, including:
Traffic surges or reductions Changes in the application mix Depedency changes Information to quickly troubleshoot problemsCascade gives you context information to help quickly identify root cause of network problems including:
Unplanned changes in network environment Mis-configurations Unathorised applications
Cascade customers have unprecedented visibility to how applications perform across their infrastructure including:
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Cascade’s holistic view of application delivery includes analyses on # of hosts serving and users connecting to an application.
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Cascade alerts include an impact score which helps focus operations staff on the most likely root cause of performance issues
Riverbed Cascade combines the best approaches to monitoring, analysis, reporting, and alerting in one highly automated solution. Cascade incorporates advanced Network behaviour Analysis (NBA) technology. Cascade's NBA implementation is the most advanced in the industry allowing customers to implement automated network and application monitoring and analysis with a significantly reduced burden on expert operations staff.
Cascade's unique User Defined Policies, allow users to easily construct advanced monitoring and control policies to avoid known contributors to degraded performance. These technologies combine to reduce the number of false positive alerts or 'alarm noise' common to threshold based monitoring systems.
Additionally, Cascade provides rich contextual information for each alert that allows a) help desk staff to solve more problems and more correctly route escalated tickets; and b) expert staff to identify the root cause of performance issues more quickly shaving as much as 75% off of the time spent troubleshooting.
How Riverbed Cascade Works
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Riverbed Cascade provides a new way of managing application performance by analysing the interactions of users, applications, systems, and network interfaces that comprise the application delivery infrastructure. Unlike other visibility and monitoring products, that only offer WAN interface specific views, Riverbed Cascade takes vast amounts of application data from across the enterprise and turns it into actionable, relevant information. Cascade creates application-centric, site-centric, and business-centric views that help managers address critical challenges, such as WAN optimization justification, automated availability and performance analysis and reducing the cost and risks associated with server and data center consolidation initiatives. |
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Cascade collects network flow data already existent in devices such as switches, routers and WAN optimization devices; it then enhances it with layer 7 application and user identification, and network performance metrics to provide visibility into how applications typically flow across an organization’s infrastructure. Cascade then applies behavioural analysis technology to determine user/application/server dependencies and detect meaningful changes in behaviour that signal performance or security issues.
Automated customizable behavioural analytics enable users to identify performance and availability issues before they disrupt business services – all without having to maintain complex and time-consuming static thresholds. |
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Complete and accurate usage and dependency data provide the key inputs for making the right optimization and change management decisions. Cascade also provides an extensive set of integrations, which enable it to interoperate intelligently with other systems to increase their value and improve your workflow. Cascade’s passive, agent-less deployment allows fast implementation. |
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Cascade Implementation
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These records are then further enhanced with user identification information provided by active directories,switch port information, QoS, and SNMP data. The result is a complete view of a business application flow from the back end server to the users desktop. Cascade also provides an extensive set of integrations, with management systems typically deployed in an IT environment to further streamline workflows and provide value across multiple operations teams. |