Riverbed NPM+: Empowering Work from Anywhere with Enhanced Network Performance

The work-from-home (WFH) model has become a game-changer for IT companies, bringing a host of advantages that reach far beyond mere convenience. For an industry built on digital tools, connectivity and agile response times, remote work is a perfect match. However, with employees accessing cloud and SaaS applications directly from home, a significant portion of network traffic now bypasses the corporate data center, creating a visibility gap for IT teams. Traditional monitoring tools, focused within the data center, lack insights into these direct-to-cloud connections, making it challenging to ensure performance, troubleshoot issues, and uphold security for remote users. Challenges of work-from-home networks These blind spots can lead to performance problems, hinder productivity, and increase security risks, as IT cannot fully track or manage this traffic flow. Solutions like Riverbed’s NPM+ address these gaps by extending monitoring to cover all remote traffic, enabling IT teams to manage performance and security comprehensively across distributed networks. Here are some of the key networking issues that companies and remote employees face with WFH: Lack of Network Visibility: IT teams often struggle to maintain complete visibility into network performance when users are accessing company resources from various locations–whether home offices, co-working spaces or other remote environments. Traditional monitoring tools built for on-premise infrastructures fall short in tracking user experience across the complex web of internet service providers, Wi-Fi networks and VPNs. Increased Complexity in Troubleshooting: Diagnosing performance issues becomes significantly harder when IT does not have real-time insights into the root cause of the problem—whether it is a local network issue, ISP bottleneck or application-level disruption. Without the right tools, troubleshooting can take much longer, leading to prolonged downtime and reduced employee productivity. Lack of Corpor