Riverbed Recognized as a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2026 GigaOm Radar Report for Network Observability

Recognition reflects Riverbed’s commitment to delivering Intelligent Network Observability purpose-built for today’s modern enterprise networks

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, today announced it has been named as a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2026 GigaOm Radar Report for Network Observability. This recognition validates Riverbed’s continued leadership in delivering full-fidelity visibility, unified data, and AI-driven intelligence through its Network Observability suite.

Recognized as a Leader in the Network Observability Radar for three consecutive years, Riverbed is positioned in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant, which represents vendors offering broad functionality, strong use cases, and the capacity to drive market disruption through innovation. GigaOm noted Riverbed’s network observability capabilities in providing dynamic discovery and mapping, application and Layer 7 monitoring, and comprehensive security capabilities as strong advantages.

“This recognition from GigaOm reinforces Riverbed’s leadership in Intelligent Network Observability and reflects how our platform delivers exceptional customer value for enterprises,” said Jim Gargan, Chief Marketing Officer at Riverbed. “Built for today’s modern, highly distributed networks, our approach unifies full fidelity telemetry, contextual correlation, explainable AI, and automation, to give IT teams the visibility and insights they need to prevent disruption and operate resilient, high-performing digital environments at enterprise scale.”

Driving the Evolution of Intelligent Network Observability

Grounded in a practical, outcome‑driven model, Riverbed’s approach to Intelligent Network Observability delivers actionable intelligence and built‑in automation that streamlines resolution and improves performance at scale. This is underpinned by deep network visibility, combining full packet capture, flow monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring to eliminate blind spots across hybrid, multi-cloud, and remote environments. Key capabilities include:

• Riverbed Data Store – A smart AI-ready, data repository designed to intelligently collect, correlate, and surface only the most relevant device, application, and network data.
• Riverbed IQ – The AI-driven insight and automation layer that analyzes this data across domains, delivering real-time insights and orchestrated automations, all while keeping human oversight.
• NPM+ – Endpoint level network traffic analysis, real-time UC visibility, and packet capture telemetry streamed into Riverbed IQ to expose blind spot performance issues.

Last year, Riverbed announced the expansion of its Intelligent Network Observability portfolio to address the accelerating growth of data, applications, and network complexity. These updates included Riverbed’s advanced AI‑powered capabilities that deliver deeper visibility and faster issue resolution across complex, hybrid environments, enabling IT teams to proactively address performance issues before they impact the business. And with new high-performance appliances, AI-driven insights, and flexible licensing through Riverbed Flex, customers are maximizing existing investments while equipping their networks to support modern digital experiences.

Network observability is undergoing a fundamental shift, evolving from isolated monitoring tools into platform‑based decision systems that support real‑time understanding and action. As highlighted in the 2026 GigaOm Radar, the market is converging across network, cloud, application, and user experience domains, with organizations moving away from fragmented tools toward unified platforms that enable greater alignment across NetOps, SecOps, and IT operations. Enterprises already collect massive volumes of telemetry, yet fragmentation across tools creates conflicting answers, manual correlation, and delays during incidents. As a result, the value of observability is no longer defined by visibility alone, but by the ability to translate data into shared context and understanding, and to take decisive action in real-time.

View the 2026 GigaOm Radar for Network Observability and learn more about Riverbed’s network observability solutions: https://www.riverbed.com/products/network-performance-management/

About Riverbed

Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, helps organizations optimize their user’s experiences by leveraging AI automation for the prevention, identification, and resolution of IT issues. With over 20 years of experience in data collection and AI and machine learning, Riverbed’s open and AI-powered observability platform and solutions optimize digital experiences and greatly improves IT efficiency. Riverbed also offers industry-leading Acceleration solutions that provide fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Together with our thousands of market-leading customers globally – including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 – we are empowering next-generation digital experiences. Learn more at riverbed.com

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