Riverbed SteelCentral Helps The Pennington School Maximize Cloud-Based Learning
12 Mars 2015 - 1:30PM
Business Wire
SteelCentral NetExpress solves performance
visibility issues for school’s hybrid environment of on-premises
and cloud-based apps
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ:RVBD), the leader in application
performance infrastructure, today announced that The Pennington
School is using Riverbed® SteelCentral™ NetExpress to support its
technology-rich educational environment. This environment has a mix
of owned applications and cloud-based services – in short, a hybrid
IT environment, which poses challenges for gaining visibility into
application and network performance across IT topologies and
vendors. SteelCentral NetExpress, an all-in-one appliance for
network performance management, combines packet capture and flow
data collection with analytics, dependency mapping, and reporting
so the school’s IT team can identify, troubleshoot, and resolve
performance problems across applications, networks, and
infrastructure before they have any impact upon students. This is
critical for a school that uses technology to advance how students
learn.
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Founded in 1838, The Pennington School is an independent,
coeducational school serving 485 students, including 120 boarding
students, half of whom are international. All students and faculty
members have iPads, for reading textbooks, taking notes, homework,
communicating with teachers and classmates, research, and
extra-curricular activities such as working on the school yearbook
and communicating with friends and family back home. This puts a
huge responsibility on the school’s IT department, led by Director
of Technology Kenneth Coakley, to keep the network running
flawlessly.
Hybrid IT Delivers Rich Learning Environment and Performance
Challenges
Pennington’s IT environment includes owned applications such as
Microsoft Office and Blackbaud school administration software and
cloud-based services such as the Schoology learning management
system and Google Apps for Education. Students and faculty depend
on cloud-based Google Apps for Education (Gmail, Google Drive,
Google Docs, etc.) for basic computing tasks and the Schoology
learning management system to create, share and manage academic
content. The various departments use a variety of subject-specific
cloud apps, such as Subtext from Renaissance Learning, which the
English department uses to facilitate discussions about books.
Classrooms are affected if the network is down, so Coakley and his
team started looking into ways to get better visibility into
network performance.
“We knew we needed to get a tool in-house to help us keep the
network healthy and efficient,” said Coakley. “We started looking
for a solution to help us better monitor our network and be
proactive. With Riverbed SteelCentral NetExpress, we have a
solution that allows us to isolate, track down and pinpoint where
we need to focus. With Riverbed, we can take a scalpel vs. a sledge
hammer approach to troubleshooting network performance issues and
resolving issues in minutes that previously required hours and
sometimes days.”
Having the SteelCentral appliance also helps eliminate the
“blame the network first” mentality. “When somebody reports a
problem, we can track back and get a better feel for where things
are failing,” added Coakley. “Now, troubleshooting takes much less
time, and IT can finally be proactive. For example, at one point a
few students were bypassing the firewall to play a game and causing
the network to slow down. With SteelCentral NetExpress, it took us
15 minutes to see this was happening and put a stop to it.” Coakley
estimates that without SteelCentral NetExpress, it would have taken
hours, possibly days to ascertain the activity. Coakley continued,
“Without Riverbed, that could have taken a lot of scrambling to
identify what was causing the network slow down, and how we could
stop it. This way we got to it before it was even a problem.”
Riverbed SteelCentral and the Riverbed Application
Performance PlatformTM
The Riverbed SteelCentral product family is a performance
management and control suite that combines user experience,
application, and network performance management to provide the
visibility needed to diagnose and cure issues before end users
notice a problem, call the help desk, or jump to another web site
out of frustration. Riverbed SteelCentral is part of
the Riverbed Application Performance Platform™, a complete
platform that gives CIOs the visibility to deliver, control, and
optimize all IT resources across the hybrid enterprise.
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Riverbed, at more than $1 billion in annual revenue, is the
leader in Application Performance Infrastructure, delivering the
most complete platform for the hybrid enterprise to ensure
applications perform as expected, data is always available when
needed, and performance issues can be proactively detected and
resolved before impacting business performance. Riverbed enables
hybrid enterprises to transform application performance into a
competitive advantage by maximizing employee productivity and
leveraging IT to create new forms of operational
agility. Riverbed’s 25,000+ customers include 97% of both
the Fortune 100 and the Forbes Global 100. Learn more at
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