Riverbed

Riverbed helps IT organizations understand and improve the performance of networks and applications that support distributed businesses. Its observability technology brings together network packets, flows, infrastructure metrics and digital experience information so operations teams can investigate problems with more context. Products such as AppResponse provide packet-based analysis, while NetProfiler focuses on flow analytics and NetIM adds infrastructure monitoring. Riverbed also has a long-standing network and application acceleration portfolio for environments affected by distance, bandwidth constraints or complex hybrid connectivity. This combination makes the company particularly relevant to enterprises where application performance depends on many interconnected network segments and cloud services. Although observability is not itself a security control, the visibility can support security and operations teams by exposing unexpected traffic patterns, infrastructure changes and performance anomalies. Its distinctive focus is giving teams detailed network context so they can diagnose issues and optimize distributed environments.