Riverbed Extends Wan Optimisation To Enhance Cost Savings

Riverbed Technology, a provider of wide-area data services (WDS), has announced the release of enhanced versions of its Riverbed Optimisation System (RiOS), Steelhead Mobile and Riverbed Services Platform (RSP), which together will provide enterprises with a comprehensive solution for application acceleration and cost savings across the data centre, branch office, and mobile worker. With these releases, Riverbed enables enterprises to further consolidate IT infrastructure, enhance worker productivity and accelerate data protection, helping CIOs support a more efficient workforce and IT environment while reducing operational and financial investment.

Riverbed is also introducing new tools for WAN optimisation, accelerating Lotus Notes and MAPI encrypted traffic at the application layer, as well as MAPI 2007 and Oracle Forms for mobile workers. In addition, Riverbed is broadening its solutions to provide cost-effective replication and backup among data centres. Each of these enhancements is a direct result of the ongoing relationships Riverbed has with key partners, such as VMware.

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“Riverbed focuses on providing tools to our customers that help them save money immediately, while meeting the strategic requirements of their businesses. Our development priorities come directly from ongoing dialogue with customers to better understand their needs as they are forced to do more with less,” said Vivek Singh, Regional Director, India & SAARC Region, Riverbed Technology. Vivek added “We anticipate that customers will continue to look to Riverbed to deliver industry firsts such as the RSP, which help drive infrastructure costs down, enhance the productivity of the workforce, and enable business to be more resilient in times of change.”

The Branch Office of Tomorrow: Steelhead Mobile 2.0

Organisations today want to hire the best talent and let them work wherever they happen to be, while minimising the real estate and energy costs associated with on-site employees. At the same time, IT is expected to keep up as mobile and remote users demand applications that are always on and instantly available. To address this need, Riverbed introduces Steelhead Mobile 2.0, which offers the performance and security of the office without the IT infrastructure costs associated with a physical location.

With the extension of Riverbed’s SSL acceleration to Steelhead Mobile, workers at home, on the road, or in small offices can now experience LAN-like application performance with the security that IT professionals demand.
Enhanced Riverbed Services Platform (RSP)
With today’s launch, Riverbed has enhanced its RSP offering with virtualisation based on VMware. The RSP allows customers to virtualise essential third-party software modules into Steelhead appliances, allowing further consolidation of their IT infrastructure at the branch and even greater RoI on their Steelhead appliance investment. The enhanced RSP is an enterprise-class platform that enables a reduction in the branch office IT footprint by running up to five remote office third-party software modules–without the need for separate servers.

Partnerships

Riverbed has forged partnerships with best-of-breed vendors to host third-party applications and services qualified on the new VMware-powered RSP, including Secure Computing for Unified Threat Management (UTM), Infoblox for DNS/DHCP, Wowza Media Systems and Qumu for streaming media and NetDialog and OPNET for application monitoring and analysis.
In addition, customers will be able to run other software, such as Microsoft Windows, on the RSP as a virtual machine.

RiOS 5.5 Disaster
Recovery Features

With RiOS 5.5, IT managers are provided faster replication that utilises less WAN bandwidth. Customers can now use one-quarter the bandwidth while completing the same replication task in a smaller window of time. Riverbed achieves this by intelligently increasing LAN-speed throughput on large-scale transfers, reaching speeds of up to one Gigabit on a single device, and even more in clustered deployments.

Enhanced Support for Lotus Notes Acceleration

Riverbed provides support for Lotus Notes acceleration at the application layer, which improves the speed at which employees can access large e-mail attachments and manage calendaring, resulting in increased collaboration across distant offices.