Shamus McGillicuddy, analysis director for the community administration follow at Enterprise Administration Associates (EMA), explains Riverbed’s Information Retailer strategy as an enabling know-how to Riverbed’s general observability platform that references a number of siloed databases and makes use of AI to intelligently collect solely the information that’s related to a given operation. “As an example, if somebody desires to troubleshoot an issue, Information Retailer will discover all knowledge related to that drawback throughout a number of instruments. This can be a nimble strategy to mining knowledge throughout silos with out having to construct a missive knowledge lake,” McGillicuddy says.
Riverbed’s Lenton says this strategy to knowledge is a technological innovation that leaves a “rubbish truck” or knowledge the place it’s and as an alternative creates a exact, clever methodology of information entry and evaluation.
“The fact is that whereas it could be superb for all knowledge to be situated in a single location, in the present day’s extremely distributed IT environments and enormous volumes of information being generated make that difficult,” says Bob Laliberte, principal analyst, networking and observability at theCUBE Analysis. “So, by leveraging a distributed knowledge retailer organizations can assist bigger environments and retain knowledge for longer durations of time. Riverbed has executed rather well, guaranteeing the information retailer is tightly built-in with the platform. It’s all about getting the correct knowledge on the proper time.”
The platform strategy will assist clients tame the proliferation of IT monitoring and administration instruments throughout their environments, Riverbed asserts. EMA knowledge helps the premise that IT leaders need to scale back the variety of instruments they use and preserve, however on the identical time, analysis additionally suggests IT continues to need to make the most of best-of-breed choices.
“I surveyed 351 IT decision-makers earlier this yr for a analysis report on Community Observability: 83% stated they’d a number of community observability instruments, and 80% of multi-tool respondents stated that software consolidation is a excessive precedence. Nevertheless, consolidation is difficult. Many NetOps professionals inform me they need best-of-breed instruments for SNMP monitoring, circulate monitoring, packet monitoring, artificial community monitoring, and many others.,” EMA’s McGillicuddy says. “Riverbed is providing the perfect of each worlds. Its platform strategy is definitely a set of particular person merchandise which might be built-in via enabling know-how like Information Retailer and Riverbed IQ. Riverbed primarily brings the platform to you, no matter what best-of-breed instruments you might be hanging onto.”
A lot of the new options and updates can be found to Riverbed clients now. Agentic AI will likely be typically obtainable in Q2 of this yr, and NPM+ Packet Seize will likely be obtainable in Q3 2025.