Riverbed Technology announced on Monday at VMworld 2012 that it has extended its strategic partnership with VMware, and will launch a performance management solution for software-defined networks.
This news comes a month after VMware acquired software defined networking provider Nicira for $1.26 billion.
Riverbed and VMware are developing a new VXLAN-aware Internet Protocol Flow Information Export format to support network and application performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and reporting. The planned solution will ensure performance of VMware-based SDNs and VDCs, VMware says.
“By creating virtual networks on demand, which can span physical boundaries, enterprises can optimize computing and storage capacity for mission-critical applications. With virtual overlay networks, traffic is encapsulated in tunnels across the physical network, which creates blind spots for the understanding and troubleshooting of performance issues,” the press release says.
In addition, Riverbed Steelhead Cloud Edition will be further integrated with VMware vCloud Director to simplify deployment, configuration, and management of WAN optimization-as-a-service for the VDC.
“Our partnership with Riverbed was founded on the goal to help enterprises accelerate their journey to the cloud and enable businesses to increase efficiency and improve productivity while reducing costs. Rigid networking and security architectures based on purpose-built hardware and fragmented management interfaces pose a barrier to achieving the promise of the software-defined data center,” Allwyn Sequeira, vice president and CTO, networking and security, at VMware said in a statement. “This latest collaboration with Riverbed brings the needed visibility and performance to address the challenges associated with the next evolution of virtualization, and enables customers to embrace SDNs.”
Planned enhancements of the Riverbed Cascade products will provide network operations teams with the ability to control and understand VXLAN virtual overlay network performance, monitor and troubleshoot VDCs and the physical network, and provide VDC owners isolated views into their VDC performance.
“SDNs will bring to enterprises, service providers, and systems integrators the next evolution of the virtualized IT environment, with benefits that include the ability to create complete virtual data centers in minutes and deliver quickly hybrid cloud solutions,” Eric Wolford, executive vice president at Riverbed said in a statement. “Our partnership with VMware will help deliver on the promise of SDNs by providing the needed management and performance solutions to operate and deliver IT services at the infrastructure level.”
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