Cloud Scale Is Easy. Cloud Resilience Is Hard.
Moving to the cloud solves many problems. Infrastructure becomes flexible. Capacity scales quickly. Teams deploy services faster than ever before.
However, resilience does not happen automatically.
As environments grow more distributed, visibility often shrinks. Applications run across hybrid clouds, remote endpoints and SaaS platforms. Meanwhile, performance issues can hide between layers of infrastructure. Without clear insight, small issues quickly become major disruptions.
This is where Riverbed and Microsoft Azure work together. Azure provides global cloud infrastructure. Riverbed delivers deep observability across users, applications and networks. Together, they create an always-on foundation that modern organisations can rely on.
See Everything. Miss Nothing.
Resilience begins with visibility.
Microsoft Azure offers powerful cloud-native tools for scalability and security. Yet cloud infrastructure alone cannot show how users actually experience applications. Riverbed fills that gap by providing end-to-end observability across devices, networks and cloud workloads¹.
With full telemetry flowing from Azure environments into Riverbed’s monitoring platforms, IT teams gain a unified view of performance. They can track application response times, network behaviour and user experience from one place.
As a result, blind spots disappear. Instead of reacting to outages, teams spot early warning signs and act before users feel the impact.
Detect Issues Before They Disrupt Operations
Downtime rarely arrives without warning. In most cases, systems degrade gradually. Latency increases. Resources tighten. Error rates climb.
Observability makes those signals visible².
When Riverbed analytics run alongside Azure workloads, teams can detect anomalies in real time. AI-driven insights surface unusual behaviour across applications and infrastructure. Consequently, engineers can investigate and resolve potential problems long before they escalate.
This proactive approach strengthens service reliability and reduces unplanned downtime — one of the biggest costs facing cloud-first organisations³.
Align Performance With Business Impact
Technical metrics alone do not tell the full story. Business leaders care about user experience, uptime and productivity.
Riverbed’s Digital Experience Management capabilities help IT teams connect technical performance to real user impact¹. When combined with Azure’s scalable infrastructure, organisations gain both performance and clarity.
For example, teams can see whether a slowdown affects a specific region, device type or business function. That context allows IT to prioritise fixes based on operational risk rather than technical noise.
Over time, this alignment improves decision-making and builds stronger trust between IT and business leaders.
Strengthen Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments
Few organisations operate entirely in one environment. Most rely on hybrid or multi-cloud architectures that connect on-premises systems with Azure services.
In these complex environments, resilience depends on integration and visibility. Azure provides flexible cloud infrastructure and enterprise-grade security. Meanwhile, Riverbed ensures consistent performance monitoring across both cloud and on-prem systems⁴.
Because telemetry spans every layer, teams avoid fragmented monitoring tools. Instead, they gain a consistent view of infrastructure health across locations and platforms.
That unified insight simplifies operations and reduces the risk of hidden performance gaps.
Respond Faster When Every Second Matters
Even with proactive monitoring, incidents still happen. What matters most is how quickly teams can respond.
With real-time telemetry from Azure feeding into Riverbed’s observability platform, engineers access immediate context. They see what changed, when it changed and how it affects users.
In addition, automated workflows can trigger alerts, escalate incidents or initiate corrective actions without delay. Faster insight leads directly to faster resolution.
Ultimately, this shortens mean time to resolution and minimises disruption across the organisation⁵.
Build Infrastructure That Supports Growth
Modern organisations depend on digital services. Customers expect availability. Employees expect reliability. Leaders expect scalability.
By combining Azure’s global cloud platform with Riverbed’s advanced observability, organisations build infrastructure that supports growth without sacrificing stability.
Performance improves. Downtime decreases. Visibility increases.
Instead of reacting to issues, IT teams operate with clarity and confidence.
The Future of Cloud Resilience
Cloud migration is only the first step. Long-term success depends on maintaining visibility, reliability and control as environments scale.
Riverbed and Microsoft Azure together provide that balance. Azure delivers flexible, secure infrastructure. Riverbed ensures that performance remains measurable, manageable and optimised.
For organisations committed to always-on operations, this combination offers a practical path forward.
Ready to Strengthen Your Cloud Resilience?
If your organisation relies on Azure but lacks full visibility into performance and user experience, it may be time to rethink your observability strategy.
Resilient infrastructure does not happen by chance. It happens by design.
Talk to Wanstor about how Riverbed Azure observability can help you build an always-on environment that supports your business today and scales confidently into tomorrow.
Sources
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Riverbed Digital Experience Management overview
https://www.riverbed.com/products/digital-experience-management/ -
Riverbed on observability and performance monitoring
https://www.riverbed.com/solutions/observability/ -
Microsoft Azure reliability and resilience guidance
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/reliability/ -
Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud architecture principles
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/ -
Industry research on observability improving incident response
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2024/01/12/the-strategic-importance-of-ai-enhanced-observability-to-enterprise-it/