New Riverbed Steelhead Appliance Offers High-Performance DC Soln

Riverbed Technology, an IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, has announced the Riverbed Steelhead 7050 model wide area network (WAN) optimisation appliance. The Steelhead 7050 model appliance combines new levels of bandwidth and TCP session scalability with solid-state drives (SSD) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE). This new appliance efficiently scales to meet the performance, reliability and flexibility requirements of large enterprises and allows them to more cost-effectively manage large-scale data centre-to-data centre replication, accelerate applications among many locations and users in an enterprise, and build large private cloud infrastructures.

The appliance optimises up to 100,000 concurrent optimised TCP connections and up to one Gigabit per second WAN-side throughput, and utilises up to four 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) network interface cards.

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The Steelhead 7050 comes equipped with up to 28 SSDs that allow for higher throughput for read, write and search performance. Faster throughput shortens the time required to move data across the WAN to DR sites, allowing enterprises to protect more data, more often. It also delivers greater scale for accelerating branch office computing.

To help businesses achieve better business continuity, SSDs in the Steelhead 7050 model appliances are leveraged for datastore fault tolerance. This is a unique feature, analogous to RAID for disks, where if one of the SSDs fails, the Steelhead appliance maintains high throughput and continues to optimise data using the remaining disks.

Finally, Steelhead 7050 can support up to four 10GbE SR cards and is equipped to handle up to 100,000 connections, offering a scalable solution to users.

“As our customers are enhancing their data centre capabilities and building out private cloud environments, they are increasingly dependent on their network for everything from branch office computing to large-scale disaster recovery processes,” said Apurva Davé, Vice President of product marketing at Riverbed. “With the release of Steelhead 7050, distributed enterprises can ensure that IT performance is not a limiting factor in DR efforts or instantaneous access to business-critical applications.”

The Steelhead 7050 model appliances are expected to be generally available in Q1 2010.