Riverbed Technology, the application performance specialist is buying privately-held Aternity, a provider of End User Experience (EUE) and application performance monitoring solutions. The acquisition aims to expand Riverbed’s SteelCentral performance monitoring solutions. Riverbed’s SteelCentral aims to build cloud-based performance monitoring, along with new capabilities to help accelerate business execution and boost productivity. It will be offerd though Riverbed's channels.
“Aternity is another exciting and strategic acquisition for Riverbed. Their innovative end user experience monitoring offering perfectly complements and extends our SteelCentral solutions,” said Jerry M. Kennelly, Riverbed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “With the increased use of mobile devices, virtual desktop environments and the cloud, the ability to manage end user experience has become more important and complex for IT organizations. With this acquisition, Riverbed and our partners are now uniquely positioned to provide CIOs and businesses with a complete view across networks, applications and end users, all in one solution.”
Aternity’s technology aims to let enterprises see the user experience for any application running on any device, providing a user-centric, application performance experience vantage point.
This level of insight is increasingly important as enterprises rely on a mix of public and private clouds to gain operational agility, speed up application deployment, and achieve cost savings, it says. The result is a hybrid IT environment in which applications and data are spread across heterogeneous operating systems, multiple data centers and cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure and AWS.
“IDC expects the worldwide market for APM software and SaaS will total $3.1 billion in 2016. Much of that growth is being driven by digital transformation and the development of highly interactive mobile, social and web applications,” explains Mary Johnston Turner, IDC Research Vice President, Enterprise Systems Management Software. “The acquisition of Aternity is a great fit for Riverbed. By adding end user experience, end user device and workplace productivity monitoring to Riverbed’s existing network and browser based SteelCentral APM toolkit, Riverbed will be much better positioned to help customers deploy and manage applications and infrastructure to support today’s highly mobile, digital, online business strategies.”
The acquisition follows Riverbed’s acquisition of SD-WAN provider Ocedo in January 2016, which helped Riverbed offer the application-defined SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) solution SteelConnect in April.