Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, will acquire Aternity, a provider of end user experience (EUE) and application performance monitoring solutions. The acquisition of the privately-held company will expand Riverbed’s SteelCentral performance monitoring solutions and provide Riverbed customers and partners with an end-to-end visibility solution spanning network, application and end user experience performance management.
“Aternity is another exciting and strategic acquisition for Riverbed. Their innovative end user experience monitoring offering perfectly complements and extends our SteelCentral solutions,” said Jerry M. Kennelly, Riverbed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “With the increased use of mobile devices, virtual desktop environments and the cloud, the ability to manage end user experience has become more important and complex for IT organisations. With this acquisition, Riverbed and our partners are now uniquely positioned to provide CIOs and businesses with a complete view across networks, applications and end users, all in one solution.”
Aternity today monitors more than 1.7 million mobile, virtual and desktop workforce endpoints. Aternity’s technology helps enterprises see the entire user experience for any application running on any device, providing a user-centric, application performance experience vantage point that narrow-scope network or application performance monitoring tools can lack. By effectively transforming every device – physical, virtual and mobile – into a self-monitoring platform that is user experience aware, enterprises are empowered with user-centric, proactive IT management capabilities.
This level of insight is increasingly important as enterprises rely on a mix of public and private clouds to gain operational agility, speed up application deployment, and achieve cost savings. The result is a hybrid IT environment in which applications and data are spread across heterogeneous operating systems, multiple data centres and cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure and AWS.
Riverbed’s acquisition of Aternity will deliver to customers end user experience and device-based monitoring and visibility across all mobile, virtual and desktop devices, and into all applications including cloud/SaaS applications. Riverbed plans to offer Aternity solutions through its robust partner ecosystem.
“IDC expects the worldwide market for application performance management (APM) software and software-as-a-service (SaaS) will total US$3.1 billion in 2016. Much of that growth is being driven by digital transformation and the development of highly interactive mobile, social and web applications,” explains Mary Johnston Turner, IDC Research Vice President, Enterprise Systems Management Software.
“The acquisition of Aternity is a great fit for Riverbed. By adding end user experience, end user device and workplace productivity monitoring to Riverbed’s existing network- and browser-based SteelCentral APM toolkit, Riverbed will be much better positioned to help customers deploy and manage applications and infrastructure to support today’s highly mobile, digital, online business strategies.”
Riverbed recently included significant enhancements in cloud-based performance monitoring for SteelCentral, along with new capabilities to help accelerate business execution and boost productivity. SteelCentral changes the way IT teams can manage performance by delivering performance management technologies in a single console to help IT improve visibility into application delivery infrastructures and identify and correct problems before they impact end users and business performance.
The acquisition also follows Riverbed’s acquisition of SD-WAN provider Ocedo in January 2016, which enabled Riverbed to get to market faster with application-defined SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) solution SteelConnect in April. Additionally, Riverbed offers an application performance platform that delivers end-to-end visibility, optimisation and control.
The acquisition of Aternity is expected to close in August 2016. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“Aternity is another exciting and strategic acquisition for Riverbed. Their innovative end user experience monitoring offering perfectly complements and extends our SteelCentral solutions,” said Jerry M. Kennelly, Riverbed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “With the increased use of mobile devices, virtual desktop environments and the cloud, the ability to manage end user experience has become more important and complex for IT organisations. With this acquisition, Riverbed and our partners are now uniquely positioned to provide CIOs and businesses with a complete view across networks, applications and end users, all in one solution.”
Aternity today monitors more than 1.7 million mobile, virtual and desktop workforce endpoints. Aternity’s technology helps enterprises see the entire user experience for any application running on any device, providing a user-centric, application performance experience vantage point that narrow-scope network or application performance monitoring tools can lack. By effectively transforming every device – physical, virtual and mobile – into a self-monitoring platform that is user experience aware, enterprises are empowered with user-centric, proactive IT management capabilities.
This level of insight is increasingly important as enterprises rely on a mix of public and private clouds to gain operational agility, speed up application deployment, and achieve cost savings. The result is a hybrid IT environment in which applications and data are spread across heterogeneous operating systems, multiple data centres and cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure and AWS.
Riverbed’s acquisition of Aternity will deliver to customers end user experience and device-based monitoring and visibility across all mobile, virtual and desktop devices, and into all applications including cloud/SaaS applications. Riverbed plans to offer Aternity solutions through its robust partner ecosystem.
“IDC expects the worldwide market for application performance management (APM) software and software-as-a-service (SaaS) will total US$3.1 billion in 2016. Much of that growth is being driven by digital transformation and the development of highly interactive mobile, social and web applications,” explains Mary Johnston Turner, IDC Research Vice President, Enterprise Systems Management Software.
“The acquisition of Aternity is a great fit for Riverbed. By adding end user experience, end user device and workplace productivity monitoring to Riverbed’s existing network- and browser-based SteelCentral APM toolkit, Riverbed will be much better positioned to help customers deploy and manage applications and infrastructure to support today’s highly mobile, digital, online business strategies.”
Riverbed recently included significant enhancements in cloud-based performance monitoring for SteelCentral, along with new capabilities to help accelerate business execution and boost productivity. SteelCentral changes the way IT teams can manage performance by delivering performance management technologies in a single console to help IT improve visibility into application delivery infrastructures and identify and correct problems before they impact end users and business performance.
The acquisition also follows Riverbed’s acquisition of SD-WAN provider Ocedo in January 2016, which enabled Riverbed to get to market faster with application-defined SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) solution SteelConnect in April. Additionally, Riverbed offers an application performance platform that delivers end-to-end visibility, optimisation and control.
The acquisition of Aternity is expected to close in August 2016. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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