Cast your mind back to the last time you lost your house keys. I mean, really lost them. They weren’t in any of the usual places. You’ve checked about ten times. And when you did find them (in a sweaty panic and a flurry of overturned cushions because you were meant to leave the house 20 minutes ago), they were somewhere completely unexpected, like the laundry basket or in the fridge. This scenario, so familiar to us all, is very much like monitoring application performance in the cloud. When it comes to finding problems and the underlying cause–the place you need to be looking is often very d ..read more

The latest FITARA scorecard is out. Whether your agency is satisfied with its grade (or not), there’s a good chance you’re already thinking about ways to improve before the next scorecard. Riverbed Alluvio can help you improve many of your metrics—particularly in the category of Portfolio Review. Portfolio Review: What it means to succeed FITARA grades agencies on their performance across seven areas tied to how they buy and manage their IT. One of these areas is Portfolio Review—also known as PortfolioStat—which assesses how well agencies are reviewing their IT portfolios to save costs, incre ..read more

Alluvio IQ by Riverbed was named a finalist in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category of CRN’s 2023 Tech Innovators Award, announced today. Alluvio IQ is a SaaS-delivered Unified Observability service that surfaces impactful issues with the context to solve problems fast. It accomplishes this by leveraging full-fidelity data–across networks, infrastructure, applications, and end users–then applying AI/ML, correlation, and intelligent automation to surface actionable insights. About CRN’s Tech Innovator Awards According to CRN, these awards are meant to help solution providers identify produ ..read more

How is monitoring for the workplace evolving? The Virtual Workplace Evolution (VWE) stands as one of Germany’s of the largest desktop events, where customers, partners and vendors convene to exchange experiences and share insights on the digital workplace. The special feature of this event is the networking aspect. In presentations, companies share their strategies on how they are tackling current challenges, while solution providers showcase how their technologies are evolving. Employee experience is omnipresent The significance of employee experience permeated throughout the event. Companies ..read more

Recently, I had the privilege of attending the 2023 Gartner Digital Workplace Summit in San Diego, where leading Gartner analysts shared their insights and predictions on the latest trends shaping the digital workplace landscape. When it comes to empowering employees, enhancing productivity, and fostering sustainable growth in the digital workplace, these are a few of the important messages that resonated with me during the event. Digital dexterity for managers and employees Gartner analyst Lane Stevenson predicted that organizations prioritizing digital dexterity enablement for both managers ..read more

Traditionally, network monitoring involved polling devices for their status and statistics. Now with streaming telemetry, devices proactively send data in real-time, providing a continuous stream of metrics. Streaming telemetry enables network administrators to gather a wide range of data, including performance metrics, operational statistics, health information, and other relevant details from network devices such as routers, switches, firewalls, and servers. This data is typically transmitted using network protocols like gRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call), NETCONF (Network Configuration Pro ..read more

Read the EMA white paper, “From Complexity to Clarity: Resolving Challenges in Cybersecurity Observability” Traditional security tools like Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) are only as good as the intelligence that they ingest. In a recent report from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), Analyst Ken Buckler reflects on why SecOps needs to leverage observability data for faster, more complete incident response. Cybersecurity facing mounting challenges According to Buckler, modern cybersecurity faces a range of chal ..read more

Companies are increasingly placing a bigger emphasis on sustainable activities across their business domains. Recently, the term ESG, which stands for environmental, social, and governance, has gained significant traction. ESG serves as a comprehensive framework for assessing a company’s business practices and performance in relation to sustainability and ethical issues. Additionally, it provides a way to measure business risks and identify opportunities. While sustainability, ethics, and governance are generally considered non-financial performance indicators, the role of an ESG program is to ..read more

The traditional three pillars of observability are considered logging, metrics, and tracing. These three data types are essential for building a reliable, scalable, and maintainable system. Logs, metrics, and traces are essential to observability because they provide different types of data that enable IT engineers to understand how a system is behaving and diagnose issues when they arise. This blog looks at these three pillars and analyzes how Riverbed takes them further to unify data, insights and actions for all IT. What are logs? Logs refers to the collection of data generated by an applic ..read more

MOVEit, a managed file transfer software product developed by Progress Software, employs Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to securely transfer and encrypt data at rest. The software has been popular with the healthcare industry as well as financial services and government sectors, but on May 31st, 2023, Progress Software disclosed a critical vulnerability: CVE-2023-34362. Upon successful exploitation of this vulnerability, an attacker could gain sufficient access to install a web shell inside the MOVEit application. This would allow the bad actor full access to read, write and delete ..read more