Riverbed Expands Cloud Storage Gateway Product Family

Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, has announced the introduction of three new Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage gateway models designed to optimise data protection.

Whitewater will now allow a wider range of organisations, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs), to take advantage of the benefits of cloud data protection. The new Whitewater models 510 and 710 are purpose-built for SMEs, while the Whitewater model 2010 is designed for the mid-sized enterprise and targeted use cases in the large enterprise. With the release of the new models, Whitewater cloud storage gateways can now better meet the data protection needs of organisations across a wider range of sizes and industries, to reduce operational burdens, costs and complexity when using public cloud storage for data protection. In addition to hardware-based cloud storage gateway appliances, Riverbed also offers a virtual version of its cloud storage gateway for data protection.

Whitewater cloud storage gateways enable organisations to easily and securely optimise their backup, while allowing them to reap the benefits of the public cloud’s economies of scale, flexibility, scalability and pay-per-use pricing, without changes to their existing infrastructure. Whitewater cloud storage gateways provide fast, drop-in access to the major public cloud storage providers with local-like performance and connect directly to most popular backup tools. With the introduction of Whitewater cloud storage gateway models 510, 710 and 2010, Riverbed enables a wider range of enterprises and federal agencies to significantly reduce storage requirements by embracing the benefits of cloud storage for data protection.

Whitewater cloud storage gateways deduplicate, compress and encrypt backup data sets before storing them in the local cache and securely accelerating them over the network and into the cloud. This frees backup staff from labour-intensive tape backup and tape infrastructure management with no disruption to their operations. In the event of a disaster, the secure cloud copy can be restored to any location and provides a strong DR solution without the need to purchase and maintain expensive hardware in remote locations.

“We are bringing the power of a high-performance, secure and flexible cloud storage gateway to our SME customers to tap into the tremendous benefits of using the public cloud for data protection,” said Apurva Davé, vice president of product marketing at Riverbed. “These new offerings will help SMEs, in addition to larger organisations, leverage Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage gateways to overcome barriers to cloud storage adoption, including performance, security and vendor lock-in. This enables a wider range of organisations to better compete without having to build and maintain a high-capital, high-maintenance infrastructure.”