Riverbed in the Visionaries Quadrant of the 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers

Riverbed announced today that it has been positioned by Gartner in the ‘Visionaries’ quadrant of the 2012  “Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers” authored by Neil Rickard, Bjarne Munch, and Joe Skorupa, and published in October, 2012. In the report, Gartner positions vendors in one of four quadrants - Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries and Niche Players - based on the companies’ vision and ability to execute on that vision. You can download the complete report here. The Magic Quadrant itself is shown below:
 


According to the report, “The application delivery controller has evolved into a key component of the data center architecture, and enterprises should evaluate ADCs based on how they integrate with this architecture and support more-advanced features, such as user and traffic control and monitoring.” 

The continued evolution of the datacenter architecture from a physical to a virtual and cloud environment requires enterprises to deploy ADCs that are more flexible, dynamic, and application-aware than ever before. Riverbed Stingray is designed to be deployed seamlessly across all IT architectures, including physical, virtual, cloud, software-defined, and hybrid data centers. The solution’s key differentiators are its flexible software and virtual form factors, the custom scripting capability that provides organizations with granular control over their applications, and advanced features such as web content optimization (WCO) and web application firewall security capabilities. 

While the industry recognition is much appreciated, Riverbed is not taking this for granted as our team of ~1600 individuals at Riverbed continues to work on improving existing products, develop new and exciting technology, and deliver top-notch technical support to our customer base of 19000+.

 

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[innovative SMB it solutions]

I am very intrigued by this Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers, 2012" especially the traffic control feature. I'm waiting how this would affect enterprises.