Heidi Gabrielson

New Riverbed Unified NPM Products Support Year of Change

2020 was a year of change, much of it unanticipated as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the planet. The massive surge in work-from-home (WFH) affected hundreds of millions across…

Riverbed AppResponse Adds SSL/TLS Analysis and PFS API

Keeping track of SSL and TLS security certificates is important. An expired certificate can erode trust in your organization in that customers may no longer want to do business on …

New AppResponse Adaptive Thresholds Reduces False Positives

Performance monitoring is typically based on comparing measurable values against a set of threshold values. In theory, the IT operations team determines what the thresholds for war…

NetProfiler Users Are More Than A Number With AD Connector 3.0

Imagine you’re at an elaborate costume party. You talk to people but you don’t really know who they are because they’re behind masks. You just refer to them as “superhero girl” or …

What’s Your Zoom Performance?

Remote workforce productivity is critical to successful business continuity. Is the performance of your collaboration tools, such as Zoom, keeping pace? Collaboration applications …

11 Ways to Ensure Network Performance, Visibility and Security for Work-From-Home Users

According to Gartner, 43% of U.S. workers spend some of their time working remotely and there’s a high proportion of work being done outside the traditional corporate office in Fin…

Add Visibility to Your SteelHead to Optimize Network Performance

For some reason, whenever I think about how Riverbed NPM and SteelHead WAN Optimization can work together to provide better visibility into optimized network performance, the Johnn…

Five Must-Haves for Unified Network Performance Management (NPM)

We’re all used to the back and forth: integrated platform or standalone, best-of-breed? “Tools that can correlated multiple classes of network data are more effective in all NPM (n…

Six Blind Men and the Elephant

I was recently reminded of the story of the blind men and the elephant when I read the statistic that 67% of enterprises have 3-6 network performance management (NPM) tools install…

Portal: Central Management Now “Free” to AppResponse Customers

With the latest release of Portal version 3.3, central management workflows such as managing Host Groups and application definitions are now available to all AppResponse customers …