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Riverbed Recognizes Schneider Electric for Most Innovative Use of SteelScript Open APIs to Customize Riverbed Application Performance Platform
January 2015 by Marc Jacob
Riverbed Technology is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2014 Riverbed® SteelScript™ Ideas Contest is Lionel Marie, network architect at Schneider Electric, a 176-year-old French firm that specializes in energy management. Using SteelScript, Marie created specific views and reports to give him greater visibility into traffic movement across his hybrid enterprise.
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SteelScript is a set of open APIs and developer tools that enable customers and partners to customize and automate Riverbed solutions, extending the value of the Riverbed Application Performance Platform™. The contest was inspired by Riverbed customers’ creative use of SteelScript.
The Winner: Internet Traffic Reports for Controlling Capacity and Costs of Cloud Services
Lionel Marie’s idea was to use SteelScript to leverage information collected from SteelCentral™ NetProfiler to create Internet traffic reports that make capacity planning easier, as well as controlling costs associated with SaaS and cloud services providers. The result is high-level visibility into traffic movement based on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Autonomous Systems (AS) numbers to see where data is going in a company’s vast, hybrid IT environment.
As a network architect for a large multinational corporation, Marie understands the challenges of a hybrid IT environment. Schneider Electric employs more than 150,000 employees in over 130 countries. MPLS and local networks connect 1,000 remote sites to four data centers, where many critical applications have been consolidated. In addition, the company has adopted cloud-based solutions such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and software as a service (SaaS) such as Salesforce.
Marie’s goal with his SteelScript idea was to improve connectivity to critical destinations (Amazon Web Services, Azure, Salesforce, Box, etc.) by creating views based on traffic exchanged to and from those destinations. With SteelScript, Marie created Internet traffic reports based on BGP AS numbers, which were collected by a SteelCentral NetProfiler appliance.
Riverbed® SteelScript™
The Riverbed Application Performance Platform™ enables CIOs to deliver, control, and optimize all IT resources across the hybrid enterprise. A key part of the platform, Riverbed SteelScript is the set of open APIs and developer tools for customizing and automating application performance infrastructure from Riverbed. Open APIs facilitate programmability, interoperability, and intelligence across the Riverbed platform and partner ecosystem so that customers can automate the analysis and resolution of performance issues across their IT infrastructure and for their unique business needs.
