Gigamon Joins New Riverbed-Ready Technology Alliance Program

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Gigamon® (NYSE: GIMO), a leader in traffic visibility solutions with the innovative Unified Visibility Fabric™, today announced at Riverbed FORCE 2014 that it has joined the Riverbed®-Ready Technology Alliance program. The goal is to bring the capabilities of Gigamon's Visibility Fabric to Riverbed customers while expanding the value of Riverbed solutions and helping customers overcome the visibility challenges associated with the adoption of new information technologies for the hybrid enterprise.

Gigamon's Visibility Fabric™ delivers active visibility across physical, virtual, software-defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualized (NFV) environments while integrating with Riverbed SteelCentral network and application performance management solutions to offer application performance visibility and fast network diagnostic capabilities in any scale of data center environment. Integrating Gigamon offerings that include packet de-duplication and time stamping with Riverbed solutions enhances the network and application performance monitoring capabilities of joint customers. Enterprises and data centers deploying the combined solutions of Gigamon and Riverbed can rest assured that their monitoring infrastructures are tested, verified, and supported.

"As a Riverbed-Ready Technology Alliance partner, Gigamon is excited to collaborate on developing unified solutions that provide pervasive visibility for application-aware network and application performance management and monitoring for enterprises in various stages of adoption of next generation IT infrastructures," said Tara Reeve, director of strategic alliances at Gigamon, a Platinum-level Riverbed-Ready member. "Through Riverbed-Ready joint testing, our shared customers can be confident that our combined solutions will offer the highest levels of network and application visibility and perform as promised."

Gigamon has been partnering with Riverbed since early 2012 on integrated solutions and technologies for rapid and accurate troubleshooting of network and application problems in enterprise and financial industry IT environments. The company continues to work together on integrating and testing technologies such as Riverbed's validation of Gigamon's NetFlow Generation application. The updated Riverbed-Ready program framework enables partners to extend the Riverbed Application Performance Platform, the most complete platform for analyzing, diagnosing, and resolving application, network, and end-user performance issues anywhere in the hybrid enterprise. Through the program, Gigamon and Riverbed will help customers maintain visibility across cloud, virtualized and software-defined environments for insight into network and business application performance.

"Through the new Riverbed-Ready program, Riverbed and Gigamon will provide our customers integrated solutions that extend the Riverbed Application Performance Platform," said Katie Colbert, vice president, global technology alliances at Riverbed. "Together, Riverbed and its partners are providing end-to-end solutions that provide deep visibility and control to inspect, direct, and protect workloads across the hybrid enterprise."

Gigamon will be exhibiting and presenting in two sessions at the Riverbed FORCE Conference at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. from Nov. 3 – 6, 2014.

About Gigamon

Gigamon provides an intelligent Visibility Fabric™ architecture for enterprises, data centers and service providers around the globe. Our technology empowers infrastructure architects, managers and operators with pervasive and dynamic intelligent visibility of traffic across both physical and virtual environments without affecting the performance or stability of the production network. Through patented technologies and centralized management, the Gigamon GigaVUE portfolio of high availability and high density products intelligently delivers the appropriate network traffic to management, analysis, compliance and security tools. With over eight years' experience designing and building traffic visibility products in the US, Gigamon solutions are deployed globally across vertical markets including over half of the Fortune 100 and many government and federal agencies. www.gigamon.com

About Riverbed Solutions

Riverbed Application Performance Platform product families include: Riverbed® SteelCentral™ for end-to-end visibility, analytics, and diagnostics across the hybrid enterprise; Riverbed® SteelHead™ to optimize and control application delivery throughout the hybrid enterprise; Riverbed® SteelFusion™ to consolidate branch infrastructure in the data center and optimize delivery of apps/data to branches; and Riverbed® SteelApp™ to optimize application delivery and load balancing in hybrid cloud environments.

About Riverbed FORCE 2014

Riverbed FORCE 2014, November 3 – 6 at the San Jose Convention Center, gathers global IT leaders and industry pioneers to focus on The Hybrid Enterprise: How to Make Yours Perform at Its Peak.  FORCE offers attendees thought-provoking General Session keynotes from industry experts; free technical certification testing; a Riverbed-Ready Technology Partner Pavilion; and 80 hands‑on labs and technical sessions that deliver in-depth training with hybrid architectures and solutions in performance management, WAN optimization, branch converged infrastructure and application delivery. More than 1,000 customers, technology partners and industry and Riverbed technology experts are expected at this premier event. Learn more at www.riverbedforce.com.

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