Riverbed White Paper Sample
One of the key challenges associated with ensuring acceptable application delivery is that in the vast majority of instances it is the end user, and not the IT organization, that first notices application degradation. Making matters worse, when the IT organization is made aware that the performance of an application is degrading, the organization is often unsure of the cause in part because any component of IT could be the cause of that degradation.
In addition, in most instances:
- IT organizations tend to plan and manage each component of IT in isolation from each other.
- In many instance, each component of the IT infrastructure can perform well, yet the overall performance of the application is unacceptable.
- White papers and other documents that are intended to help IT organizations get better at application delivery tend to focus on just one component of IT. As such, these documents provide little guidance relative to the end-to-end issues caused by complex applications running over a complex infrastructure.
The Handbook is designed to provide the end-to-end guidance that the typical white paper cannot provide. An unfortunate side affect of providing that guidance is that The Handbook is lengthy which is why this summary handbook was created.
