Riverbed Announces New Programmable Capabilities to Application Performance , IT Management

Riverbed (News - Alert) Technology, a provider of application performance solutions, announced new programmable infrastructure capabilities to its application performance and IT management tools.

The company has announced new product capabilities, developer tools and a supporting community that allow IT professionals to customize and adapt their IT infrastructure to meet the demands of their business and improve the experience of their users.

Riverbed introduced new developer tools called FlyScript that enable integration and automation within the Riverbed performance platform, as well as with third-party tools and customers' proprietary software. 

The FlyScript developer tools are designed to simplify and accelerate the execution of repetitive tasks with scripts that can be copied, pasted, and modified as needed to automate a wide range of functions, including configuration, deployment and monitoring, and testing for performance challenges. 

The company also introduced an online community called Riverbed Splash, which provides customers with a platform to learn more about using FlyScript to get better performance, control and scale for their applications. 

Riverbed Splash features best practices regarding configuring, deploying and managing Riverbed products as well.

As part of FlyScript developer tools, Riverbed introduced REST APIs for the Riverbed performance platform solutions, including Cascade Shark, Cascade Profiler, and Stingray Traffic Manager. Through these APIs, developers can get a supported way to access raw data and manage the configuration of Riverbed solutions in an industry standard Web service design model.

Further, Riverbed introduced the Python Software Development Kit (SDK), built on top of fully documented and supported REST APIs to develop custom modules and applications. The SDK is designed to simplify the coding process for casual coders and application programmers.

With the new programmable infrastructure capabilities, the company expand its reporting and management interfaces available in Riverbed solutions and allow IT operators to create custom rules and views attuned to their organization's needs.

Thanks to these solutions, organizations can solve application performance management challenges with better visibility and control through a custom IT portal, automated provisioning and management within a software-defined data center, and intelligent closed-loop performance remediation.

"We encounter customers all the time whose needs are specific to their business and their infrastructure," said Eric Wolford, president of Riverbed Products Group. "Today, we are giving customers the ability to uniquely accelerate their business in a way that has never before been possible."

Back in December, Riverbed Technology acquired OPNET Technologies (News - Alert). The transaction represents an equity value of $1,000 million and an enterprise value of $921 million. Both companies are based in the U.S.