Stingray Traffic Manager

The solution Stingray Traffic Manager is available both in virtual, and in program configurations and represents the high-performance virtual controller of delivery of applications (ADC) which provides high flexibility and a possibility of centralized operation at acceleration of work of the corporate applications placed on servers and also offers operators of networks and application developers advanced functionality of a corporate class for work with scripts (TrafficScript, global balancing of loading, bandwidth control, setup of transmission rate, monitoring of the service level).

The solution Stingray Traffic Manager is available in different configurations (1000, 2000 and 4000 Series) which are designed to satisfy requirements of any enterprises. Stingray Traffic Manager allows customers at any time and from any point to perform updating and upgrade of a system by loading of the software and input of a license key. Besides, the solution Stingray Traffic Manager is available in a new configuration with a monthly subscription fee now. Thanks to it the enterprises receive additional flexibility and can instantly, accelerate and optimize without long-term obligations the applications in a cloud. A monthly subscription fee begin less than from 200 dollars a month that provides additional attractiveness to such approach. The new model complements with itself solutions of the existing suppliers of the public cloud services working with Riverbed and offering paid services for controllers of delivery of applications based on Stingray.

Stingray Traffic Manager 9.0

With a release of the new version of Stingray Riverbed provides complex optimization of web content using the Stingray Traffic Manager application or using separate technology which can be used in already existing environment of controllers of delivery of applications, such as F5, Citrix or Cisco, without the need for changes on the application server or corrections of settings of the user browsers. Using Stingray 9.0 organizations and operators of cloud infrastructure can achieve the high performance of web applications and start them in any environment: physical, virtual or cloud, as required scaling the infrastructure. At the same time time of access to web applications for end users can be reduced four times at decrease in load of network by 30%.

Thanks to the solution Stingray Traffic Manager with the integrated optimization of web content corporate developers can concentrate efforts on strategic projects now, having exempted themselves from routine works on applications testing for each mobile platform, to formatting of images or optimization of load time of scripts. For application developers and also for training of end users and implementation of pilot projects the Riverbed company submits the version of Stingray Developer Edition which can be loaded free of charge. This new model allows developers to focus on new features which directly influence business and satisfaction of customers, unlike long and labor-consuming tasks, such as optimization of performance.

2014: SteelApp Traffic Manager 9.7

On September 18, 2014 it became known - Riverbed SteelApp Traffic Manager 9.7 (earlier known as Stingray Traffic Manager) expands possibilities of Microsoft Azure on security and optimization of performance of applications and data in hybrid corporate environments.

The Riverbed Technology company provided addition to Riverbed SteelApp Traffic Manager, the virtual controller of delivery of applications (ADC). As the companies address hybrid corporate environments with private assets in the company and public services in a cloud, they face new calls for performance — including the become complicated architecture and existence of the "dead bands" unavailable in terms of control, supports and security. Riverbed SteelApp Traffic Manager 9.7 will help to cope with these calls, providing to the enterprises with the hybrid environment access and delivery of applications quickly, safely and with the smallest costs.

"The companies in a mass order implement hybrid solutions, expanding borders of the DPCs, transferring a part of data to clouds, and then struggle with complexity and performance concerns — Alexander Stulov, the sales director of Russia and the CIS noted Riverbed companies. — Our clients purchase SteelApp for intellectual balancing of loading of traffic of applications in hybrid environments and also for web optimization which allows to accelerate operation of applications in clouds. Riverbed SteelApp Traffic Manager 9.7 also allows to reach now the best protection against threats at the application layer and bigger controllability in a cloud".

New in the application

• Autonomous Web App Firewall (WAF): implementation of SteelApp WAF as autonomous WAF without changes in the existing schemes of balancing of loading will allow the company to apply quickly the main security policies, to maintain compliance to the PCI or HIPAA standards and also to counteract such types of threats as implementation of the SQL code, cross-site scripting, CSRF and many others.

• SteelApp Traffic Manager 9.7 is available to Microsoft Azure: Users can implement Microsoft workloads in an optimal cloud environment, use any Microsoft applications of Azure.
  • Progressive loading: fast work with web pages using a new possibility of consecutive loading in SteelApp Web Accelerator. Image Streaming integrates images in parallel flows which the browser loads more effectively, than separate images.