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Riverbed Global Survey Finds 85% of Companies Plan to More Closely Monitor Network and App Performance During Olympics to Maximize Performance of Business Critical AppsRiverbed (News - Alert) Technology, the application performance company, announced today the findings of its global snapshot survey that looked to see how companies would be approaching any potential critical business application and network strain from employees streaming Olympic coverage and accessing associated content online at the office. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160803005281/en/ 
In August, the world will once again take time to watch the best athletes compete on a global stage. This year promises to be the biggest games - the most athletes, the most events and the most coverage. With the growth of the games, will enterprise networks suffer as more and more employees watch coverage? To find out, Riverbed commissioned the Global Network Strain Snapshot survey in July 2016. We spoke with 403 global IT professionals to find out the impact of the games on the enterprise network. (Graphic: Business Wire) Tweet This: 85% of companies plan to more closely monitor network + app performance during summer games @Riverbed global survey: http://rvbd.ly/2asgf1T The vast majority of companies, 85%, reported that they were likely to more closely monitor the performance of their applications and networks, including Wi-Fi, specifically because of potential strain due to employees accessing Olympic content, with 42% of these same companies being very likely to monitor more closely. Only 2% stated that they were very unlikely to monitor any differently during this the Olympics. "As athletes prepare for the games, IT organizations need to prepare for the significant increase in network traffic that will occur as a result of employees accessing and streaming online content and applications, and the related increase in volatility of that network demand," said Mike Sargent, Senior Vice President and General Manager, SteelCentral at Riverbed. "It is crucial for companies to shine a spotlight on the current and anticipated end-to-end performance of business critical applications, especially during major events such as the Olympics. Riverbed delivers that spotlight with our SteelCentral solutions - hich provides visibility from the end user device, across the networks, the cloud, the infrastructure, and the apps to help assure great app performance in times of high and volatile network demand." Companies expected employees to access Olympic content using the company's networks, including Wi-Fi, most frequently via their desktops and laptops (48%); followed by smartphones (34%); and then tablets or other non-smartphone devices (18%). At 44%, Brazil was the only country surveyed that believed by a slight margin that most of its employees would access Olympics games coverage at work more from smartphones than desktop or laptop computers, tablets or other non-smartphone devices. The reason for monitoring employees' access to Olympic content could potentially be linked to companies being unable to quickly pinpoint and resolve performance issues of critical business applications: Less than half of the companies surveyed, 43%, were very confident that their organizations could safeguard critical applications during high network traffic events such as the Olympics, while 12% were not confident that their companies could handle the added strain and traffic. In one of the most revealing statistics, companies were asked if they've had an issue, even once, with their networks, including Wi-Fi, specifically because employees were accessing content during a popular event such as the Olympics. The majority of companies responded yes (69%), with 30% of these same companies saying that they have experienced more than one episode of issues. The survey also found that the majority (70%) of companies said they would limit or probably limit employees from accessing Olympic content through company networks, including Wi-Fi, in some way, with 24% saying they will definitely limit content and 46% saying they would probably limit content. Infographic: Will the Summer Games add to your network strain? Tips from Riverbed on how companies can alleviate strain on their networks:
SteelCentral and the Riverbed Application Performance PlatformTM SteelCentral is the Command Center of Riverbed's Application Performance Platform™, a complete platform that gives CIOs end-to-end application visibility, optimization and control, across the entire enterprise. Riverbed SteelCentral has been recognized as a "Leader" in Gartner's (News - Alert) "Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD) for two consecutive years and "Visionary" in the Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (2014). In addition, Riverbed SteelHead has been recognized as a "Leader" in Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization" eight years running Riverbed Global Network Strain Snapshot Survey Methodology The Riverbed Global Network Strain 2016 Snapshot Survey is the result of a July 2016 custom online survey by Wakefield Research of 403 IT Professionals in the US, UK, Australia, and Brazil. This includes 102 IT Professionals in the US, 100 IT Professionals in the UK, 100 IT Professionals in Australia, and 101 IT Professionals in Brazil. About Riverbed 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 27,000+ customers include 97% of the Fortune 100 and 98% of the Forbes Global 100. Learn more at www.riverbed.com. Riverbed and any Riverbed product or service name or logo used herein are trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used herein belong to their respective owners.
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