Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager
High-performance Load Balancing and Application Delivery Software From Riverbed
Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager is used by seven of the top ten global telecommunications providers and powers some of the most popular sites on the web, including Whitepages.com, Gilt Groupe, Domino's Pizza and the BBC.
One of the fastest software Application Delivery Controllers on the market, Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager frees applications from the constraints of proprietary, hardware-based Application Delivery Controllers, enabling them to run in any physical, virtual, or cloud environment, and to migrate and scale on-demand.
Stingray software controls and optimises the service your users receive by inspecting, transforming, prioritising and routing application traffic. You implement the traffic management policies that are most appropriate for your enterprise.
Where Do You Deploy Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager?
Stingray Traffic Manager is an asymmetric solution that is deployed within the data center on a physical server platform of your choice, on any supported Cloudinfrastructure, including Rackspace, Joyent and Amazon EC2, or as aVirtual Appliance on VMware Virtual Infrastructure, VMware vSphere,XenServer, and OracleVM. It allows you to control all traffic to andfrom your applications so that you can optimise the level of service youdeliver to your users.
Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager Benefits:
Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager enables your enterprise to:
- Maximise Speed - ensuring your applications perform fast, while taking the load off your web and application servers, with a comprehensive range of acceleration and optimisation techniques that include SSL, XSLT and compression offload, and HTTP content caching as standard. Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager can reduce the number of application servers required by up to 70%.
- Maximise Availability - using a range of load balancing methods, session persistence, and health monitors help keep your applications online, while Service Level Monitoring and Bandwidth Management ensure that users get fair levels of service.
- Maximise Security - service protection capabilities help ensure that malicious DoS attacks don’t take your applications down. Riverbed's Stingray Application Firewall protects against the top 10 risks associated with the use of web applications in an enterprise, as defined by OWASP.
- Monitor Performance - monitor the real response time of your applications and track SLAs with a set of logs, reports, and graphs. Real-time analytics allow you to quickly diagnose problems by filtering connection patterns as they happen.
- Ultimate Control - customise your traffic management policies and get full control over how individual requests are optimised, routed, and transformed. Gain the power to solve application problems, address faults and vulnerabilities, and create workflows that you may never have thought possible.
How Stingray Traffic Manager, combined with TrafficScript, delivers application traffic:
Integration Into Riverbed Cascade 9.5
With its new release of Cascade Profiler 9.5, Riverbed provides the first Network Performance Management solution to give a wizard-based, streamlined configuration process for service monitoring across Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs).
The challenges often presented by load balancing ADCs create significant visibility problems for network operations by masking the necessary metrics and application dependencies, limiting their ability to monitor for end-to-end performance or troubleshoot degradations.
Riverbed Cascade 9.5 automates the discovery and monitoring of load balanced applications. By integrating with ADCs such as F5 Local Traffic Manager, Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager, and others, Riverbed Cascade bridges the visibility gap between the client-side and server-side connections of load balancers, providing IT operations with a view of application performance.
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