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AppNeta vs. Riverbed SteelHead

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppNeta
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
AppNeta provides performance monitoring solutions for distributed, cloud-connected, digital enterprises. AppNeta’s SaaS-based solutions give IT teams application and network performance data, allowing them to constantly monitor user experience across any application, network, data center or cloud.N/A
Riverbed SteelHead
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
San Francisco based Riverbed Technology offers Steelhead, a WAN optimization solution. The new SteelHead 90 series appliances are designed to provide performance, security, scalability, data movement efficiency, and resilient networking.N/A
Pricing
AppNetaRiverbed SteelHead
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppNetaRiverbed SteelHead
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
AppNetaRiverbed SteelHead
Best Alternatives
AppNetaRiverbed SteelHead
Small Businesses
SolarWinds Pingdom
SolarWinds Pingdom
Score 9.5 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Cisco ThousandEyes
Cisco ThousandEyes
Score 8.9 out of 10
Cisco Routers
Cisco Routers
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco ThousandEyes
Cisco ThousandEyes
Score 8.9 out of 10
Cisco Routers
Cisco Routers
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
AppNetaRiverbed SteelHead
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppNetaRiverbed SteelHead
Likelihood to Recommend
Broadcom
AppNeta is awesome for getting site-to-site statistics or trying to find out why at 3 am every night, this server loses connectivity to another server in a different data center. But we have found the multiple bugs in the hardware hard to deal with when the devices are a 4-hour plane ride away and require someone to console into the device.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Riverbed Technology
If you are dealing with large CAD files on a daily basis "remotely", Riverbed Steelhead makes your home office feel just like the office
KW
Kevin Walgren
Technology Lead
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Pros
Broadcom
  • AppNeta provides detailed application availability & uptime.
  • AppNeta provides great longitudinal data regarding how the applications perform including an overall grade or "AppDex."
  • AppNeta sends notifications of service downtime that aids in technical dispatch.
Richard Phung | TrustRadius Reviewer
Richard Phung
Sr. Windows Administrator
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Riverbed Technology
  • Effectively improves data throughput over VPN WAN connections.
  • Seamless operation.
  • Optimizes a variety of applications. Including, HTTPS, Citrix, Netapp SM and SV, Exchange, etc.
Tim Slater | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tim Slater
Manager, Corporate Services and Information Systems
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Cons
Broadcom
  • Hardware has a lot of bugs.
  • Auto-updates cannot be turned off on the hardware, causing blips in monitoring.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Riverbed Technology
  • A reduction in price is always welcomed
  • Simplify and streamline advanced features and add-on pieces for more detailed traffic analysis
  • Getting granularity into traffic behavior becomes confusing and very expensive
Verified User
Anonymous
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Support Rating
Broadcom
Timely support is one of AppNeta's strong suits. But the ability to develop permeant fixes for issues within there product is where they lack.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Riverbed Technology
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Alternatives Considered
Broadcom
We currently use Nagios/GroundWork and Cacti to perform network monitoring. AppNeta's UI is far superior.
Richard Phung | TrustRadius Reviewer
Richard Phung
Sr. Windows Administrator
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Riverbed Technology
We tested Cisco eleven years ago in parallel with Riverbed in a PoC. The Cisco configuration was very complex and sticky based on the location. The Riverbed configuration is flexible based on the whole storage. A software client for devices like laptops or tablets is not available for Cisco WAAS, therefore we selected Riverbed based on a PoC.
Ralf Richter | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ralf Richter
Senior Solution Architect
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Return on Investment
Broadcom
  • A reduction in network outages and length of network outages.
  • More detailed post outage investigation available.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Riverbed Technology
  • Files now open a lot quicker, at near local speeds.
  • We are able to respond to customers quicker as we can get access quicker.
Verified User
Anonymous
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ScreenShots

AppNeta Screenshots

Screenshot of a visualization for monitoring what apps are in use on a network.Screenshot of AppNeta's in-depth diagnostics, used by IT Ops to identify the root cause of network and app performance issues.Screenshot of the enhanced Selenium scripting that can be used for web synthetic monitoring to benchmark and alert on performance for business-critical SaaS apps.Screenshot of monitoring of the actual application path with multi-protocol route determination for TCP, UDP and ICMP. Key network metrics can be tracked, like Latency, Loss, Capacity and Jitter continuously with AppNeta.Screenshot of how AppNeta correlates poor performance per host and--with Active Directory--with users.Screenshot of monitoring the usage of a network for recreational apps to see when they're stealing bandwidth from your business critical apps. Users can segment by location or app to drill into more details across the entire AppNeta Performance Manager dataset.