Riverbed SteelCentral Portal

Riverbed SteelCentral Portal is a system for consolidation in a single system of information on network performance, applications and work of the end user in modern hybrid IT environments.

On May 7, 2015 the Riverbed Technology company presented the solution Riverbed SteelCentral Portal. The companies will be able to integrate with its help in a single system information on network performance, applications and work of the end user in modern hybrid IT environments^[1].

The transparency of IT infrastructure and complete picture of operation of applications will help to find and fix problems with performance quicker.

Effective management of performance of applications in modern hybrid environments requires representation of a complete picture of work of complex networks and a hosting. Complex approach provides SteelCentral Portal. The solution changes a method of interaction of employees of IT department, allowing them to solve jointly performance concerns of applications that finally increases business performance. SteelCentral Portal creates for each participant of process the configured and evident control panel with the most complete and up-to-date information. For each user group of SteelCentral Portal displays all necessary data with an opportunity to receive detailed data by the selected parameters.

SteelCentral Portal connects data from all relevant sources in one base. The product has the user-friendly graphical interface with evident cards of applications. Sources of information of SteelCentral Portal — the solutions and the Riverbed tools for ensuring transparency of the IT system conducting in the market. SteelCentral AppInternals and AppResponse deliver data on application performance management, and NetProfiler and NetSensor — data on performance management of network.

SteelCentral Portal integrates the performance data of applications obtained using SteelCentral and the opportunities for optimization and management provided by the products SteelHead. The solution represents a uniform source of information on performance of applications, promotes acceleration of their work.

Characteristics of SteelCentral Portal

• Graphic card of applications: SteelCentral Portal uses the interactive step-by-step process helping IT commands in short terms to construct the dynamic card of services. It reduces time and efforts necessary for development and system implementation of the reporting and allows the companies to diagnose and correct problems with performance quickly.

• Management of metrics on the basis of data: SteelCentral Portal includes schemes of workflows, powerful, ready to implementation, which will help administrators to select the "best" metrics, proceeding from available data. Administrators define what information is necessary to them, and SteelCentral Portal will automatically organize different workflows on the basis of available sources of data.

• Effective administrative reporting: SteelCentral Portal is the central source of exact performance data of applications and the supporting infrastructure. When specialists of different commands see the same equally sorted data, they have an opportunity to quickly detect a problem source. The staff of the companies who is not technical specialists can also obtain data, necessary for them.

• Data for interested persons: SteelCentral Portal creates for each concerned party the special home page with the personalized and standard control panels which meet needs of the specific user. Information is provided according to its priorities and the selected role.

• Monitoring of the optimized and not optimized traffic together with SteelHead: integration of SteelHead with AppResponse or NetProfiler allows IT specialists to watch work of the network and to see the traffic which both is not optimized, and optimized. Irrespective of where there are data — in DPC, in branch or in a cloud — users of SteelCentral Portal will be able always to obtain detailed information on what applications are optimized as they work and as users interact with each of them.

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