Riverbed Technology has announced that the Riverbed Stingray product family has been positioned by Gartner in the Visionary quadrant of the 2012 “Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers (ADC).” This report authored by Joe Skorupa, Neil Rickard, and Bjarne Munch and published on October 30, 2012.
According to the report, “The application delivery controller has evolved into a key component of the data center architecture, and enterprises should evaluate ADCs based on how they integrate with this architecture and support more-advanced features, such as user and traffic control and monitoring.”
The continued evolution of the datacenter architecture from a physical to a virtual and cloud environment requires enterprises to deploy ADCs that are more flexible, dynamic, and application-aware than ever before. Riverbed Stingray is designed to be deployed seamlessly across all IT architectures, including physical, virtual, cloud, software-defined, and hybrid data centers.
“Riverbed has a long-term vision of optimizing application performance in any environment,” said ApurvaDavé, Vice President of Products and Marketing, Stingray Business Unit, Riverbed. “The way user’s access applications and how datacenters are defined to support applications is a shifting landscape. We designed the Stingray products to provide performance, scale, security and control into the new world of private and public clouds.”
The solution’s key differentiators are its flexible software and virtual form factors, the custom scripting capability that provides organizations with granular control over their applications, and advanced features such as Web Content Optimization (WCO) and Web Application Firewall Security Capabilities.
