Riverbed is WAN optimisation Leader for eighth consecutive year

Riverbed Technology, the application performance infrastructure provider, has announced that Gartner has positioned Riverbed SteelHead as a Leader in its 2015 Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization report, marking Riverbed’s eighth consecutive year in the Leader position. 

Riverbed is also named a Leader in Gartner’s February 10, 2015 Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics and a Visionary in Gartner’s October 28, 2014 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring.
Said Paul O’Farrell, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Riverbed SteelHead and SteelFusion business units at Riverbed: “We continue to innovate, and by adding end-to-end visibility and control to our long-standing optimisation capabilities, Riverbed is delivering the most complete solution for superior application performance for today’s hybrid enterprise – for any app on-premises or in the cloud.”

According to Gartner, “because enterprises continue to demand improved performance of their applications, WAN optimisation solutions keep evolving with improved and increasingly granular application optimisation and visibility capabilities. The development of the application acceleration market has been driven by customer demand for highly integrated solutions that employ a wide range of techniques to optimise network and application performance and end-user experience and that offer scalability and fault tolerance.”¹

Riverbed SteelHead is an optimisation solution for accelerated delivery of all applications across the enterprise. 

The complete Gartner report can be viewed here. 

¹ Gartner, Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization, Bjame Munch, Neil Rickard, 17 March 2015