• Cascade 8.4 Delivers Intelligent, Business-Level Analytics and Visibility to Allow Organizations to Better Assess, Accelerate and Adapt Network Performance

Riverbed Technology, the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, announced enhancements to Cascade(R), its advanced network and application performance analysis and visibility solution. The newest version, Cascade 8.4 provides enhanced reporting and integration with Riverbed(R) WAN optimization that enable organizations to better assess, adapt and accelerate network performance. With Cascade 8.4, Riverbed allows enterprises to proactively monitor the end-user application experience in real-time. In addition, Cascade 8.4 integrates with Riverbed Steelhead(R) appliances to measure performance within optimized environments.

• Xangati enables 360° data mining capabilities in its flagship service provider offering

Xangati, the company bringing service providers and IT organizations the next generation in application management, recently announced the availability of Xangati Broadband Subscriber Intelligence. By extending its ground-breaking Application Management 2.0 framework, Xangati provides service providers previously unavailable insights that allow them to track cumulative usage patterns of their subscribers, shrink operations costs and create new revenue streams.