Riverbed Introduces Enterprise-Class Server and Data Consolidation Solution
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New High Performance, High Capacity Appliance Enables Consolidation of Large
Branch Offices and Large Data Sets
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA--(Marketwired - July 24, 2013) - Riverbed Technology
(NASDAQ:RVBD), the application performance company, today introduced a new
release of its groundbreaking Riverbed® Granite® product family that delivers an
enterprise-class solution for server and data consolidation. With expanded
capacity and higher performance IT managers can now extend the benefits of
Granite to larger branch offices and data-intensive applications that previously
were difficult or impossible to consolidate.
Granite is a technology that empowers businesses of all sizes to remove servers
and data from branch offices and centralize them in the secure data center-
without sacrificing user experience. This new architectural approach makes it
possible to centralize backup operations and get data out of high-risk
locations, while increasing agility and lowering the costs of managing remote
office IT. To succeed in this dynamic environment, IT leaders need agility,
security and control, while business users demand performance. Granite delivers
these benefits in a single solution.
This announcement includes new Granite 2.5 software that adds support for Fibre
Channel to its existing iSCSI support, enabling Granite solutions to now support
over 90% of the current enterprise-class storage array market. Granite 2.5 also
improves data protection with automated snapshots and simplified support for
existing data-center class backup and recovery software. This news builds upon
EMC E-Lab(TM) qualifying Granite with EMC VMAX® in 2012 and the recently
completed EMC E-Lab qualification of Granite with EMC VNX® in June 2013. The
performance of Granite 2.5 can be further enhanced with the addition of the new,
purpose-built Steelhead EX 1360 model appliance, on which Granite can be hosted.
The Steelhead EX 1360 model appliance offers enterprises greater capacity and
performance for consolidating larger data stores back to the data center.
Granite 2.5 and the Steelhead EX 1360 model appliance together deliver an
enterprise-class solution for server and data consolidation that allow
organizations to deploy any application to any location with high performance
and reliability.
"Data growth and infrastructure shifts continue to hamper IT's ability to meet
all protection, retention and compliance requirements. Addressing all these data
protection challenges, requires a holistic approach," Steve Duplessie, founder
and senior analyst at ESG. "Silos in technology add to the cost and complexity
while reducing productivity and increasing risk of data loss. IT needs to give
end users the tools they need to be successful while IT keeps oversight and
control."
Extended Integration with Enterprise-Class Storage Arrays
Granite 2.5 software adds Fibre Channel support for the virtual Granite Core
that extends integration with enterprise-class storage arrays, including those
from EMC, NetApp and IBM. Leading analysts have found that nearly 70 percent of
enterprises deploy Fibre Channel-based external disk solutions in 2013. Many
organizations choose to deploy Fibre Channel-based storage solutions for their
high speed, low latency transport capabilities and abilities to interconnect
multiple storage devices to better use and share the storage within the
datacenter. The addition of Fibre Channel storage solutions support to the
already supported iSCSI in the data center means over 90% of the current
enterprise-class storage array market is now supported by Granite solutions,
providing greater flexibility for enterprises to meet the storage consolidation
needs of branch offices with larger data sets.
"We see the expanded flexibility of Granite 2.5 in the data center as a big win
- both from a storage and a data protection standpoint," said Mike Rinken,
director of information technology at Mazzetti, an engineering design and
consulting firm. "In our business where large CAD files have been moving toward
a more collaborative parametric modeling data set, more resources for Granite
Edge appliances make perfect sense. We can consolidate even more data and still
make sure branch users get the local performance they need to be effective.
We're excited to have the flexibility of utilizing Fibre Channel storage and how
Riverbed is extending their storage footprint by offering more robust devices."
Simplification of Backup and Recovery
By consolidating data out of the branch and into the data center, Granite
enables organizations to eliminate branch backup and recovery systems, shifting
data protection operations to the secure data center and leaving data protection
to skilled storage personnel. Granite 2.5 further simplifies data protection
through enhanced support of industry-leading backup and recovery software
solutions like Symantec NetBackup. Granite 2.5 also offers an enhanced
centralized management user interface and simplified scheduling of hourly, daily
or weekly application snapshots executed in the branch office and captured in
the data center. As a result, Granite 2.5 delivers a single point of management
for branch snapshot schedules simplifying data protection, resulting in improved
recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO/RPO).
"We've deployed Granite to help us manage our data and applications centrally
and eliminate the hardware footprint at our data-intensive branches, which has
translated to cost savings for us," said Rohit Tellis, director of information
technology at Alamos Gold, a Canadian-based gold producer with exploration and
development activities around the globe. "The data protection enhancements help
even further and will give us the assurance that our centralized backup process
is easy to manage."
New Steelhead EX 1360 Model Appliance
Remote and branch offices come in many sizes and with diverse application and
data storage requirements. The Steelhead EX1360 model appliance consolidates
larger data sets back to the data center while ensuring business continuity. The
new model delivers local-speed experience for applications that need high-
performance storage access such as high-volume transaction databases and
geographic information systems (GIS) data modeling files that require high
input/output per second (IOPS). In addition, the new Steelhead appliance also
enables organizations with larger data workloads to increase the amount of data
it can lock within the appliance cache, increasing the ability of branch offices
with larger data sets to maintain productivity, even during WAN outages. The new
Steelhead EX1360 model appliance enables a broader range of organizations to
deploy Granite storage delivery solutions, even those branches with demanding
application and heavy compute and storage workloads without fear of performance
degradation or productivity loss.
Granite 2.5 and Steelhead EX 1360 model appliances are expected to be generally
available in Q3 2013.
Additional Resources
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- Riverbed Community
- Twitter ((at)Riverbed)
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Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements
relating to the expected demand for and benefits from Riverbed's products and
services, the potential release of future products, and the capabilities of such
yet to be released products. These forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or
prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those
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react to trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we
operate; our ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced
products to meet those needs; the adoption rate of our products; our ability to
establish and maintain successful relationships with our distribution partners;
our ability to compete in our industry; fluctuations in demand, sales cycles and
prices for our products and services; shortages or price fluctuations in our
supply chain; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; general
political, economic and market conditions and events; and other risks and
uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to
the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other
risks that may impact Riverbed's business are set forth in our Form 10-K filed
with the SEC on May 3, 2013. All forward-looking statements in this press
release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we
assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Any future
product, feature or related specification that may be referenced in this release
are for information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any
technology or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right to modify future product
plans at any time.
About Riverbed
Riverbed delivers application performance for the globally connected enterprise.
With Riverbed, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement
strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing,
and disaster recovery without fear of compromising performance. By giving
enterprises the platform they need to understand, optimize and consolidate their
IT, Riverbed helps enterprises to build a fast, fluid and dynamic IT
architecture that aligns with the business needs of the organization. Additional
information about Riverbed (NASDAQ:RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.
Riverbed and any Riverbed product or service name or logo used herein are
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to their respective owners.
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