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which can cause bottlenecks and impact application performance and user experience . To prevent this , banks need to carefully monitor applications and analyse how they scale ,” said Migally .
Solution selection
Enterprises moving down the path of scaling and bringing in network observability solutions usually stray down two common dead-ends that can cause pain points to increase rather than decrease . network and applications that are not creating an issue , is equally useful .
Network administrators using network observability solutions cannot waste time chasing multiple possibilities . Eliminating what is not causing an issue can also help to decrease the overall mean time to respond . The remedy lies in being able to resolve these performance and availability issues rapidly .
Building the solution
The first is to bring in point solutions from a new vendor that do not integrate and orchestrate with the existing network observability stack . Using third-party , siloed tools , for troubleshooting at the application , network and device levels can be complicated and timeconsuming in terms of integration .
To tackle these challenges , Halkbank decided to continue its long-term relationship with Riverbed and has scaled its capability using solutions from the vendor . Halkbank is now using Riverbed Network Observability to monitor the 40 + business-critical applications that support its financial and online banking services .
The second is to focus excessively on trying to identify the sources of performance bottlenecks , when sometimes being able to identify those parts of the
Network administrators using network observability solutions cannot waste time chasing multiple possibilities .
The solution is integrated with the bank ’ s IT management platform , giving the team real-time visibility into the network and business-critical applications , automatically generating alerts when any issues arise . The complete solution stack is built around the Riverbed Platform , which includes other components as well .
Riverbed AppResponse
One of the main benefits Halkbank sees with Riverbed AppResponse continuous packet capture and analysis
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