Riverbed announced new innovations that mark the beginning of the era of autonomous IT operations for digital experience. Fully integrated into Aternity, these new capabilities help digital workplace teams transition from reactive IT operations to prevention-first, increasing the autonomous operational models built on complete data visibility, context-aware intelligence, and trusted operational governance.
Organisations are increasingly measured by their ability to deliver frictionless digital experiences that keep employees productive and business workflows operating without interruption. While many IT initiatives focus on improving reactive operations, Riverbed is focused on enabling organisations to prevent disruption altogether. By combining contextual intelligence with enterprise-scale observability, Riverbed Aternity helps IT teams identify, diagnose, and resolve issues before they impact employees or business operations.
“Riverbed is now shipping our third generation of AI for digital employee experience, where AI moves beyond chatbots and self-service to help organisations proactively prevent disruption before employees are impacted,” said Dave Donatelli, Chief Executive Officer at Riverbed. “Riverbed is uniquely positioned to lead this transformation because we combine more than 25 years of expertise across applications, networks, devices, and AIOps with a unified data and intelligence architecture purpose-built for autonomous IT operations. Today, our AI is already operating at massive scale across many of the world’s largest brands, helping enterprises reduce disruption and advance toward autonomous operations.”
Today’s announcement further extends the value and leadership of Riverbed Aternity with six new innovations. Together, these innovations bring AI-driven operational intelligence, deeper experience visibility, and high-fidelity data capture into a unified platform designed to help organisations reduce disruption and accelerate resolution.
Aternity natively integrates Riverbed’s APM and NPM expertise through a unified agent and high-fidelity data foundation designed to support AI-driven operations across digital workplace environments.
Riverbed IQ 4.0 – The intelligence layer for autonomous IT
Release 4.0 of IQ advances IT operations from AI-assisted workflows toward autonomous operations through a unified intelligence layer designed for autonomous IT. IQ 4.0 introduces Riverbed’s agentic framework, enabling authorised AI-driven actions, intelligent workflow creation, natural language interaction, and personalised operational experiences across IT roles.
Riverbed Q – The conversational front-end for autonomous IT
Q delivers a conversational interface that allows users to tap into the power of AI across IT operations. Designed to meet users where they work in the applications, they use the most, such as Microsoft Teams, ServiceNow, Slack and many more. Q integrates with existing collaboration and operational tools, enabling personalised, conversational experiences that accelerate investigation, simplify workflows, and drive action.
Riverbed AI Assurance – AI observability and control
AI Assurance, another DEX industry exclusive from Riverbed, will introduce AI observability
capabilities made possible by Riverbed’s decades of deep application performance management expertise. AI Assurance will help organisations monitor AI adoption, shadow AI usage, operational cost, and agentic behavior as AI becomes increasingly embedded across enterprise workflows and operations.
Aternity Replay 2.0 – Fleet-wide experience visibility
Aternity Replay 2.0, another DEX industry exclusive from Riverbed, extends replay capabilities from individual user sessions to fleet-wide visibility across enterprise applications. Delivered as a new Unified Agent module, Replay 2.0 enables IT teams to see what employees experienced, accelerating root cause identification without requiring users to reproduce issues.
Aternity high frequency analytics – Fine-grained troubleshooting at 1-second resolution
High Frequency Analytics is a new Unified Agent module that will deliver fine-grained telemetry capture at 1-second resolution across devices, applications, and network data. Designed for advanced troubleshooting, it helps IT teams identify short-duration and intermittent issues often missed by traditional telemetry collection intervals.
APM+ – Deep application intelligence for digital experience
APM+, another Riverbed innovation unique to the DEX market, brings deep application intelligence directly into IT operations and help desk workflows. Built on Riverbed’s application performance management expertise, APM+ connects application behavior and transactions to employee experience, helping IT teams accelerate root cause identification across enterprise applications.
Riverbed data express – High-speed data movement for AI operations
Introduced in October 2025, Riverbed Data Express Service helps organisations move operational and AI data at up to 10x the speed of traditional solutions. New SaaS capabilities now enable high-speed data movement between AWS, Oracle OCI, and enterprise data centers, helping customers reduce transfer bottlenecks and achieve up to 30% cost savings.
In 2025 alone, Riverbed customers executed more than 250 million AI-driven automation steps, demonstrating the growing operational scale of AI and automation across enterprise IT environments.
APM+, Riverbed IQ, Aternity Replay, and Data Express are generally available now. AI Assurance and Aternity High Frequency Analytics are expected to be available in the summer of 2026.
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