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Managing the WAN to Accelerate Business Applications
Managing the WAN to Accelerate Business Applications
Gain full visibility across the WAN to effectively manage the network and quantify optimisation benefits.
In a time when operating budgets are under pressure, WAN expenses must be aligned with business needs. IT organizations need to be able to clearly show how WAN budgets are tied to business execution. Managers in charge of the WAN need visibility into the business content of the traffic they deliver. They need to be able to tell when WAN congestion affects business services and assure that congestion is not caused by non-business usage.
There are four key requirements of success that are currently missing from most organizations’ data center consolidation or migration projects:
There are four key requirements of success that are currently missing from most organizations’ data center consolidation or migration projects:
- Application-server dependencies or which servers run which applications.
- Server-server dependencies or how servers work together to provide critical business services.
- Business impact of change or which business users are dependent on which servers and applications and when.
- Performance management during the return to service period to identify and resolve problems quickly.
How Can Cascade Help?
With full Layer7 visibility, Cascade customers can:
Document the benefits of existing WAN optimisation deployments
Provide a prioritised list of most congested WAN links
Show which of these links carry critical business applications
Document how this congestion effects application response times
Show where new optimisation deployments will best help expedite business
With full Layer7 visibility, Cascade customers can:
Document the benefits of existing WAN optimisation deployments Provide a prioritised list of most congested WAN links Show which of these links carry critical business applications Document how this congestion effects application response times Show where new optimisation deployments will best help expedite business 
How Riverbed Cascade Works
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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.
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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. |
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Complete and accurate usage and dependency data provide the key inputs for making the right optimisation 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. |