Riverbed Technology has announced another product from the Riverbed Application Performance Platform is now Microsoft Azure Certified.

Riverbed customers can now deploy Microsoft Azure Certified Riverbed SteelApp Traffic Manager, Riverbed’s virtual application delivery controller (ADC). SteelApp Traffic Manager joins the Microsoft Azure Certified Riverbed SteelHead, for cloud-based WAN optimisation, announced in July. These products are part of the Riverbed Application Performance Platform, Riverbed’s set of solutions that enable customers to analyse, diagnose and resolve application, network and end-user performance issues anywhere across the hybrid enterprise.

Riverbed SteelApp and SteelHead in Azure, allows customers to take advantage of agility of the cloud, while also solving the performance challenges: optimising and accelerating the delivery of applications from Azure to business locations faster, using less bandwidth, and with greater security; and optimising, accelerating and customising web experiences and interactions.

“Customers interested in extending their enterprise to support workloads in the cloud on Azure now have access to Riverbed’s products to improve SaaS performance while keeping costs down and simplifying manageability in the cloud,” said Jeff Pancottine, senior vice president and general manager, SteelApp at Riverbed.

“As Azure works to erase the boundaries between cloud development and operational management, partners like Riverbed provide the application performance infrastructure that optimises the end user’s experience when apps are delivered via the cloud,” said Garth Fort, general manager of Enterprise Partners, Microsoft.

“In today’s cloud-first world, applications should be accessed and delivered quickly, securely and cost effectively, and Riverbed provides the cloud application performance infrastructure that makes this happen.”