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TECHx
6 days ago
- Business
- TECHx
Riverbed xx90 Drives AI-Powered Network Observability
Home » Emerging technologies » Networking » Riverbed xx90 Drives AI-Powered Network Observability Riverbed announced the launch of its new AI-powered intelligent network observability solutions, featuring the high-performance Riverbed xx90 appliance series. These solutions significantly enhance network visibility for enterprise IT teams and enable them to proactively identify and resolve problems in real-time before they escalate into business challenges. The new solutions will add value to the Riverbed Platform and build on strong market momentum. Riverbed reported a 92% year-over-year growth in observability bookings in the first half of 2025. This launch marks a new era of intelligent network observability amid growing enterprise complexity and demands for seamless digital experiences. Riverbed revealed the rollout of the xx90 appliance series for its AppResponse, NetProfiler, and Flow Gateway network observability offerings. The xx90 systems deliver up to three times the performance of previous generations at the same price. Customers can now access these solutions through Riverbed Flex Subscription. This offers license deployment flexibility across hardware, virtual, or cloud instances without extra software costs. Dave Donatelli, CEO of Riverbed, said the launch highlights the company's relentless pace of innovation. He noted the new xx90 systems bring higher performance and efficiency. The software also advances network performance monitoring and enterprise observability, integrated with Riverbed IQ for AI-driven insights. Donatelli added that the solutions streamline toolsets, unify network management, and automate operations. The Intelligent Network Observability Essentials bundle is available with the purchase of AppResponse or NetProfiler. It includes: Riverbed IQ, an AI SaaS that accelerates issue resolution without extra infrastructure Role-based Workspaces dashboards for unified packet, flow, and endpoint insights Grafana plug-in for seamless data visualization integration Topology Viewer for dynamic, map-based network and application performance correlation The Flex licensing model provides greater architectural freedom, license portability, predictable OPEX pricing, and lower total cost of ownership. It allows IT teams to re-allocate licenses across hardware, virtual, or cloud deployments and supports future growth without repurchasing software. The xx90 appliances are built for scale, speed, and precision in distributed enterprise networks. AppResponse 11.21 on xx90 supports real-time triage of encrypted IPSec ESP traffic and sustained packet capture over 50 Gbps. NetProfiler 10.29 and Flow Gateway offer faster reporting and analysis, dynamic Flow Load Balancing, and full Versa SD-WAN support. Together, these upgrades boost network data collection performance. Riverbed's Intelligent Network Observability enables smarter, faster, and more scalable network operations across corporate environments.
Channel Post MEA
6 days ago
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Riverbed Offers New AI-driven intelligent Network Observability Solutions
Riverbed has announced the launch of its new AI-powered intelligent network observability solutions, significantly enhancing network visibility for enterprise IT teams and enabling them to proactively identify and resolve problems in real-time before they escalate into business challenges. The new solutions will deliver even greater value for the Riverbed Platform, and build on strong market momentum –with Riverbed observability bookings growth of 92% year-over-year (YoY) in the first half of 2025. With this launch, Riverbed is ushering in a new era of intelligent network observability, shaped by the realities of increasing enterprise complexity and grounded in the emerging requirements of a seamless digital experience. Supporting surging network traffic demands, Riverbed's launch includes the rollout of the new Riverbed xx90 appliance series for its AppResponse, NetProfiler, and Flow Gateway network observability offerings, delivering up to 3x the performance of the previous generation systems at the same price. For organizations seeking to maximize their technology investments while optimizing cost-savings, customers can now consume these new intelligent network observability solutions through the Riverbed Flex Subscription offering. Flex Subscription allows IT teams to deploy Riverbed licenses anywhere on the network, including hardware, virtual, or cloud instances, without additional software costs. These new AI-powered network observability solutions mark Riverbed's 3rd major product release this year. 'Our relentless pace of innovation continues to set the standard in our industry and it's only accelerating,' said Dave Donatelli, CEO of Riverbed. 'With today's launch, we're unveiling our next-generation Riverbed xx90 systems, offering dramatically higher performance and efficiency, alongside significant software advancements in network performance monitoring and enterprise-wide observability now packaged and integrated with Riverbed IQ for AI-driven insights. These new solutions respond directly to our customers' priorities: streamlining tool sets, unifying and simplifying network management, and automating for efficiency. And, with the Riverbed Flex offer, customers gain even greater software licensing flexibility, investment protection and cost savings.' The new Riverbed Intelligent Network Observability Essentials bundle is now available with the purchase of either AppResponse packet capture and analysis or NetProfiler enterprise-scale hybrid flow monitoring. Included in the Network Observability Essentials bundle is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to enable proactive and accelerated remediation across complex, hybrid network environments: Riverbed IQ: SaaS-based AI that pinpoints issues and speeds resolution – no extra infrastructure needed. SaaS-based AI that pinpoints issues and speeds resolution – no extra infrastructure needed. Workspaces: Role-based dashboards that unify packet, flow, and endpoint insights to provide contextual visibility for every team.2 Role-based dashboards that unify packet, flow, and endpoint insights to provide contextual visibility for every team.2 Grafana Plug-In: Seamless integration for organizations using Grafana to visualize Riverbed observability data in their existing dashboards.3 Topology Viewer: Dynamic, map-based visualization that correlates network topology with application and user performance to speed triage. The Essentials Bundle is available with Riverbed Flex, which delivers greater architectural freedom, license portability, value retention, and lower total cost of ownership. With Flex Licensing, customers can: Re-allocate licenses across hardware, virtual, or cloud deployment. across hardware, virtual, or cloud deployment. Streamline budget planning with predictable OPEX-based pricing. with predictable OPEX-based pricing. Support future growth and transitions without needing to re-purchase software. This licensing approach enables IT teams to align network observability investments with evolving business needs, whether optimizing for resilience, performance, or AI-driven automation. Built to Scale: Performance Without Bottlenecks Riverbed's new xx90 appliance family are purpose-built to support the scale, speed, and precision required in today's distributed enterprise networks. Whether deployed for AppResponse, NetProfiler, or Flow Gateway, the xx90 family delivers high-throughput performance for both packet and flow capture without compromise. As part of the recent update, AppResponse 11.21 enables real-time triage of encrypted IPSec ESP tunnel traffic and cipher hygiene, even across globally distributed environments. AppResponse 11.21 on xx90 systems offers sustained packet capture over 50 Gbps, concurrent packet capture and analysis, and scalable modular storage exceeding 2.4 PB. For flow-based monitoring and analytics, the same xx90 system powers the new 10.29 version of NetProfiler and Flow Gateway, delivering unmatched flow visibility and analysis at scale. With 3x faster reporting and analysis and 2x faster throughput, the new software also includes dynamic Flow Load Balancing and full support for Versa SD-WAN. Together, these high-performance appliances boost performance for collecting the full-fidelity network data that serve as the backbone of Riverbed's Intelligent Network Observability, enabling smarter, faster, and more scalable network operations across corporate networks.
Zawya
6 days ago
- Business
- Zawya
Riverbed launches new AI-driven intelligent network observability solutions
Bundled Solutions Include Riverbed IQ Essentials to Surface Root Causes While Enabling Proactive and Accelerated Remediation Across Complex, Hybrid Environments Riverbed Observability Bookings experience 92% Growth in First Half 2025 Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Driven by a new era of compounding data and applications growth, Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, today announced the launch of its new AI-powered intelligent network observability solutions, significantly enhancing network visibility for enterprise IT teams and enabling them to proactively identify and resolve problems in real-time before they escalate into business challenges.1 The new solutions will deliver even greater value for the Riverbed Platform, and build on strong market momentum –with Riverbed observability bookings growth of 92% year-over-year (YoY) in the first half of 2025. With this launch, Riverbed is ushering in a new era of intelligent network observability, shaped by the realities of increasing enterprise complexity and grounded in the emerging requirements of a seamless digital experience. Supporting surging network traffic demands, Riverbed's launch includes the rollout of the new Riverbed xx90 appliance series for its AppResponse, NetProfiler, and Flow Gateway network observability offerings, delivering up to 3x the performance of the previous generation systems at the same price. For organizations seeking to maximize their technology investments while optimizing cost-savings, customers can now consume these new intelligent network observability solutions through the Riverbed Flex Subscription offering. Flex Subscription allows IT teams to deploy Riverbed licenses anywhere on the network, including hardware, virtual, or cloud instances, without additional software costs. These new AI-powered network observability solutions mark Riverbed's 3rd major product release this year. 'Our relentless pace of innovation continues to set the standard in our industry and it's only accelerating,' said Dave Donatelli, CEO of Riverbed. 'With today's launch, we're unveiling our next-generation Riverbed xx90 systems, offering dramatically higher performance and efficiency, alongside significant software advancements in network performance monitoring and enterprise-wide observability now packaged and integrated with Riverbed IQ for AI-driven insights. These new solutions respond directly to our customers' priorities: streamlining tool sets, unifying and simplifying network management, and automating for efficiency. And, with the Riverbed Flex offer, customers gain even greater software licensing flexibility, investment protection and cost savings.' The new Riverbed Intelligent Network Observability Essentials bundle is now available with the purchase of either AppResponse packet capture and analysis or NetProfiler enterprise-scale hybrid flow monitoring. Included in the Network Observability Essentials bundle is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to enable proactive and accelerated remediation across complex, hybrid network environments: Riverbed IQ: SaaS-based AI that pinpoints issues and speeds resolution – no extra infrastructure needed. Workspaces: Role-based dashboards that unify packet, flow, and endpoint insights to provide contextual visibility for every team.2 Grafana Plug-In: Seamless integration for organizations using Grafana to visualize Riverbed observability data in their existing dashboards.3 Topology Viewer: Dynamic, map-based visualization that correlates network topology with application and user performance to speed triage. The Essentials Bundle is available with Riverbed Flex, which delivers greater architectural freedom, license portability, value retention, and lower total cost of ownership. With Flex Licensing, customers can: Re-allocate licenses across hardware, virtual, or cloud deployment. Streamline budget planning with predictable OPEX-based pricing. Support future growth and transitions without needing to re-purchase software. This licensing approach enables IT teams to align network observability investments with evolving business needs, whether optimizing for resilience, performance, or AI-driven automation. Built to Scale: Performance Without Bottlenecks Riverbed's new xx90 appliance family are purpose-built to support the scale, speed, and precision required in today's distributed enterprise networks. Whether deployed for AppResponse, NetProfiler, or Flow Gateway, the xx90 family delivers high-throughput performance for both packet and flow capture without compromise. As part of the recent update, AppResponse 11.21 enables real-time triage of encrypted IPSec ESP tunnel traffic and cipher hygiene, even across globally distributed environments. AppResponse 11.21 on xx90 systems offers sustained packet capture over 50 Gbps, concurrent packet capture and analysis, and scalable modular storage exceeding 2.4 PB. For flow-based monitoring and analytics, the same xx90 system powers the new 10.29 version of NetProfiler and Flow Gateway, delivering unmatched flow visibility and analysis at scale. With 3x faster reporting and analysis and 2x faster throughput, the new software also includes dynamic Flow Load Balancing and full support for Versa SD-WAN. Together, these high-performance appliances boost performance for collecting the full-fidelity network data that serve as the backbone of Riverbed's Intelligent Network Observability, enabling smarter, faster, and more scalable network operations across corporate networks. About Riverbed Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, helps organizations optimize their user's experiences by leveraging AI automation for the prevention, identification, and resolution of IT issues. With over 20 years of experience in data collection and AI and machine learning, Riverbed's open and AI-powered observability platform and solutions optimize digital experiences and greatly improves IT efficiency. Riverbed also offers industry-leading Acceleration solutions that provide fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Together with our thousands of market-leading customers globally – including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 – we are empowering next-generation digital experiences. Learn more at
Al Bawaba
6 days ago
- Business
- Al Bawaba
Riverbed Launches New AI-Driven Intelligent Network Observability Solutions Providing Automated Insights, Higher Performance, and Greater Value
Driven by a new era of compounding data and applications growth, Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, today announced the launch of its new AI-powered intelligent network observability solutions, significantly enhancing network visibility for enterprise IT teams and enabling them to proactively identify and resolve problems in real-time before they escalate into business challenges.1 The new solutions will deliver even greater value for the Riverbed Platform, and build on strong market momentum –with Riverbed observability bookings growth of 92% year-over-year (YoY) in the first half of 2025. With this launch, Riverbed is ushering in a new era of intelligent network observability, shaped by the realities of increasing enterprise complexity and grounded in the emerging requirements of a seamless digital experience. Supporting surging network traffic demands, Riverbed's launch includes the rollout of the new Riverbed xx90 appliance series for its AppResponse, NetProfiler, and Flow Gateway network observability offerings, delivering up to 3x the performance of the previous generation systems at the same price. For organizations seeking to maximize their technology investments while optimizing cost-savings, customers can now consume these new intelligent network observability solutions through the Riverbed Flex Subscription offering. Flex Subscription allows IT teams to deploy Riverbed licenses anywhere on the network, including hardware, virtual, or cloud instances, without additional software costs. These new AI-powered network observability solutions mark Riverbed's 3rd major product release this year.'Our relentless pace of innovation continues to set the standard in our industry—and it's only accelerating,' said Dave Donatelli, CEO of Riverbed. 'With today's launch, we're unveiling our next-generation Riverbed xx90 systems, offering dramatically higher performance and efficiency, alongside significant software advancements in network performance monitoring and enterprise-wide observability—now packaged and integrated with Riverbed IQ for AI-driven insights. These new solutions respond directly to our customers' priorities: streamlining tool sets, unifying and simplifying network management, and automating for efficiency. And, with the Riverbed Flex offer, customers gain even greater software licensing flexibility, investment protection and cost savings.'The new Riverbed Intelligent Network Observability Essentials bundle is now available with the purchase of either AppResponse packet capture and analysis or NetProfiler enterprise-scale hybrid flow monitoring. Included in the Network Observability Essentials bundle is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to enable proactive and accelerated remediation across complex, hybrid network environments: • Riverbed IQ: SaaS-based AI that pinpoints issues and speeds resolution – no extra infrastructure needed.• Workspaces: Role-based dashboards that unify packet, flow, and endpoint insights to provide contextual visibility for every team.2• Grafana Plug-In: Seamless integration for organizations using Grafana to visualize Riverbed observability data in their existing dashboards.3· Topology Viewer: Dynamic, map-based visualization that correlates network topology with application and user performance to speed Essentials Bundle is available with Riverbed Flex, which delivers greater architectural freedom, license portability, value retention, and lower total cost of ownership. With Flex Licensing, customers can:• Re-allocate licenses across hardware, virtual, or cloud deployment.• Streamline budget planning with predictable OPEX-based pricing. • Support future growth and transitions without needing to re-purchase software. This licensing approach enables IT teams to align network observability investments with evolving business needs, whether optimizing for resilience, performance, or AI-driven to Scale: Performance Without BottlenecksRiverbed's new xx90 appliance family are purpose-built to support the scale, speed, and precision required in today's distributed enterprise networks. Whether deployed for AppResponse, NetProfiler, or Flow Gateway, the xx90 family delivers high-throughput performance for both packet and flow capture without part of the recent update, AppResponse 11.21 enables real-time triage of encrypted IPSec ESP tunnel traffic and cipher hygiene, even across globally distributed environments. AppResponse 11.21 on xx90 systems offers sustained packet capture over 50 Gbps, concurrent packet capture and analysis, and scalable modular storage exceeding 2.4 flow-based monitoring and analytics, the same xx90 system powers the new 10.29 version of NetProfiler and Flow Gateway, delivering unmatched flow visibility and analysis at scale. With 3x faster reporting and analysis and 2x faster throughput, the new software also includes dynamic Flow Load Balancing and full support for Versa SD-WAN. Together, these high-performance appliances boost performance for collecting the full-fidelity network data that serve as the backbone of Riverbed's Intelligent Network Observability, enabling smarter, faster, and more scalable network operations across corporate networks. © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
TECHx
02-07-2025
- Business
- TECHx
Securing Data in Use, In Transit, and At Rest
Home » Interview Of The Week » Securing Data in Use, In Transit, and At Rest As AI adoption grows and cloud environments expand, securing data across edge, core, and cloud infrastructure has become critical. In an exclusive conversation with TECHx Media, Shaik Asif, Regional Sales Director, Acceleration, EMEA & APJ at Riverbed, breaks down how the company's latest platform, RiOS 10, is built to address today's and tomorrow's enterprise challenges, from AI workload acceleration to quantum-era security threats. TECHx: What prompted Riverbed to develop RiOS 10, and how does it address the evolving needs of enterprises today? As enterprises accelerate their digital and AI transformation, networks are once again becoming a critical bottleneck. The surge in data movement, particularly with AI workloads, means businesses need faster, more secure, and more intelligent infrastructure. That's precisely why we at Riverbed developed RiOS 10. Designed to meet the demands of the AI era, RiOS 10 powers all of our acceleration solutions, from the data centre to the edge and cloud, with performance improvements of up to 2x for virtual and cloud instances, and up to 3x for appliances over previous generations. It's also worth highlighting that it isn't just perfomrance that benefits significantly from this upgrade. With RiOS 10, we have also strengthened security by enabling confidential computing, supporting Intel TDX to defend against hyperjacking threats, and incorporating post-quantum cryptography to safeguard data from future quantum attacks, all while ensuring compliance with emerging NIST and IETF standards. TECHx: Can you explain how confidential computing works and why it's such a game-changer for enterprise security? While data at-rest and in-transit are typically encrypted, data in-use, that is being processed live in memory, remains exposed. This is a growing concern, particularly in shared cloud environments where hypervisor-level attacks (what we in the industry call 'hyperjacking') can compromise multiple virtual machines. In fact, real-world incidents, such as the 2022 Mandiant–VMware disclosure, show how attackers are already exploiting this vulnerability. Confidential computing is a breakthrough approach that encrypts data even while it's being processed. By using confidential virtual machines (CVMs) and trusted execution environments (TEEs), it ensures sensitive data remains inaccessible, even if the infrastructure is compromised. With RiOS 10, we have integrated this capability into SteelHead Cloud and Virtual solutions via Intel TDX. In doing so, we effectively offer enterprises a powerful new layer of protection. Especially in the Middle East, where cloud adoption is booming across both public and private sectors, confidential computing is fast becoming essential to safeguarding trust in an increadinly cloud-driven digital transformation. TECHx: Which industries or use cases will benefit the most from this added layer of protection while data is in use? In the UAE and Saudi Arabia, governments have led the charge to the cloud, and industries like banking, finance, and healthcare have quickly followed. But as organisations shift sensitive workloads into multi-tenant cloud environments, they expose themselves to the aforementioned hyperjacking attacks. I believe we can all agree that whether you're handling patient records, transaction logs or citizen data, if a leak could damage your business or reputation, it deserves airtight protection. Confidential computing helps address this risk head-on. Even better, with RiOS 10, enterprises can prove compliance with GDPR, HIPAA and other regulatory standards through attestation, demonstrating that sensitive data is being processed in a secure environment, even within third-party infrastructure. In short, it's an essential layer of defence for any sector operating in the cloud era. TECHx: How can organisations future-proof their infrastructure against the potential threats of quantum computing? Quantum computing isn't just science fiction anymore, it's edging closer to reality, and with it comes a serious rethink of how we secure our data. These machines, once mature, will be powerful enough to crack the encryption protocols we rely on every day – TLS, VPNs, and digital signatures included. That means everything from private transactions to secure logins could be at risk in a post-quantum world. But here's the real concern: you don't need a fully functioning quantum computer for your data to be vulnerable today. Attackers can already intercept encrypted data, store it, and wait for the day quantum decryption becomes possible. It's known as a 'harvest now, decrypt later' strategy and it poses a huge risk for organisations that deal in sensitive or long-term data. The good news is that there's a way to get ahead of the curve. RiOS 10 integrates post-quantum cryptography (PQC) aligned with the latest standards set by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which has selected four algorithms specifically designed to withstand quantum attacks. This means organisations can begin securing their networks against quantum-era threats today , without needing to overhaul their entire infrastructure. By embracing PQC now, businesses not only reduce risk but also send a strong message to regulators, partners, and customers that they're future-ready. TECHx: How do you see confidential computing and quantum-ready networking shaping the broader cybersecurity landscape over the next 3–5 years? Over the next few years, confidential computing and quantum-ready networking will be central to strengthening cybersecurity resilience in an increasingly decentralised, high-risk digital world. Confidential computing, like the Intel TDX integration in Riverbed's RiOS 10, offers hardware-level isolation, even on compromised infrastructure, ensuring that sensitive data remains protected in use, not just at rest or in transit. This is especially vital as edge-to-cloud environments become the norm. Simultaneously, quantum-ready networking, through post-quantum cryptography (PQC), safeguards against 'harvest-now, decrypt-later' threats. As threat actors grow more sophisticated and quantum computing inches closer to real-world viability, enterprises need to future-proof their security. By embedding these capabilities into WAN optimisation and secure edge architecture, vendors like Riverbed are setting the tone for a new era where performance, security, and observability are no longer trade-offs, but fundamental requirements.
