Riverbed Delivers Acceleration Everywhere with Industry's Most Comprehensive WAN Optimization Solution
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
Market-Leading WAN Optimization Solution Purpose-Built for Cloud Infrastructures
and Hybrid Networks
VIENNA, AUSTRIA--(Marketwired - August 2, 2013) - Riverbed Technology, the
application performance company, today extended its market leading Steelhead®
wide area network (WAN) optimization product family with the addition of a new
hardware appliance and upgrades to its Steelhead software. Steelhead WAN
optimization solutions can now accelerate a broader range of enterprise
infrastructures while expanding IT control and ease of management, including
smaller branch offices, cloud infrastructures, SAAS applications, and locations
served by hybrid networks. These extensions make the Steelhead WAN optimization
product family an even more critical part of delivering application performance
across the entire business and extends the commitment from Riverbed® to deliver
acceleration everywhere.
Enhancements to the Steelhead product family include an upgraded Riverbed
Optimization System (RiOS®) 8.5, the software that powers market-leading
Riverbed Steelhead WAN optimization solutions, and the addition of a new
hardware appliance, the Steelhead CX 255 series appliance. Path selection, a new
feature in RiOS 8.5, simplifies the management of hybrid MPLS and Internet
networks while delivering maximum performance. New application optimizations
extend the Steelhead appliance's lead in delivering the broadest set of
optimizations for applications important to business. Integration with Riverbed
Cascade Profiler, a leading application-aware network performance management
solution, helps IT managers meet application SLAs. These enhancements and
additions to the award-winning Steelhead product family allow IT organizations
to more cost-effectively give end users across the organization the performance
they need while maintaining control and minimizing complexity.
"It is critical for us to rapidly adopt new technologies that help us to reduce
costs, boost productivity, and enhance collaboration," said Ray Sirois, director
of IT, at Wright-Pierce, a leading provider of water, wastewater and
infrastructure engineering services. "By delivering accelerated performance cost
efficiently across our entire infrastructure, Riverbed WAN optimization is at
the heart of our ability to improve both the way and pace that our employees
work."
IT organizations face demands from their end users for access and speed,
regardless of device or location, yet must still manage the network efficiently
and securely. With their broad set of application optimizations and deployment
options, ease of installation and management, and now the ability to manage
multiple access methods with path selection, Riverbed WAN optimization solutions
are uniquely positioned to allow businesses to manage these complex IT
environments.
"Network architects should revise WAN architectures to improve performance for
external cloud applications and resources. While Internet VPNs and Ethernet
services will play a greater role in the enterprise WAN over the next two to
four years, it will largely be as part of a hybrid network, blended with MPLS
service to ensure delivery of the performance, availability, and feature
functionality that businesses desire," noted Gartner analysts Andrew Lerner and
Neil Rickard.
Path Selection Delivers Enhanced Control for Acceleration Everywhere
Rapid adoption of cloud applications, rich media applications and distributed
business-critical applications has complicated network traffic delivery. The
network is evolving to a hybrid architecture combining the strengths of a highly
reliable MPLS network with the ubiquity, price and speed of the Internet.
With the introduction of path selection in RiOS 8.5, IT organizations can cost
effectively deploy and manage complex hybrid networks to deliver greater
application reliability and performance to users anywhere. Path selection
combined with application identification via deep packet inspection (DPI)
enables IT and business units to understand usage and performance down to the
specific application type and dynamically reroute application flows in case of
performance degradation. Path selection ensures the right path and service level
for each application with no impact to end users. With integrated quality of
service (QoS) and now path selection, Riverbed WAN optimization solutions
provides IT organizations with the ability to control network consumption,
prioritizing mission-critical and latency-sensitive applications, while
minimizing utilization by recreational traffic.
"As we are delivering a growing mix of centralized and cloud applications to our
distributed employees, our WAN is becoming increasingly strained. Riverbed WAN
optimization will allow us to successfully move to a hybrid architecture and
take advantage of lower cost Internet networks. In the end, we will be able to
deliver the performance our end users need, reduce the complexity and burden on
the WAN and still maintain control of our IT infrastructure," added Sirois.
New Optimizations for Business-Critical Applications
With this release of RiOS 8.5, Riverbed further strengthens the strategic
technology partnerships with Microsoft and NetApp for the benefit of mutual
customers.
In RiOS 8.5, Riverbed is introducing new optimizations for business-critical
Microsoft applications and environments including SharePoint® 2013, Exchange
2013, Office365® and file sharing applications that utilize the server message
block 3 (SMB3) protocol in Windows® 8 and Server 2012 environments. As a result,
mutual customers of Microsoft and Riverbed can increase productivity and
efficiency, while enhancing business resilience.
"Microsoft SharePoint is vital to our success and Riverbed WAN optimization has
played a critical role in enabling our distributed employees to be productive
and collaborative," said Kurt Anderson, CIO at GeoEngineers, Inc., a multi-
disciplined earth science and technology firm that offers a diverse suite of
services. "With the new SharePoint 2013 optimization that Riverbed is
introducing, we will be able to take advantage of the new features in
SharePoint, which is a strategic part of our continued success and growth."
With storage intelligent optimization for NetApp SnapMirror®, IT organizations
can now efficiently prioritize and deliver data replication to ensure business
continuity and rapid disaster recovery of critical data. Customers can obtain
detailed insights into each storage volume and prioritize replication for the
most important data sets while avoiding taxing resources on processing data that
will see little benefit. Combined with previous optimizations for replication,
data protection goals can be more easily met across the enterprise.
Tightly Integrated WAN Optimization Solution with Deep Application and Network
Visibility
The integration of Cascade Profiler 10.0.7 with RiOS 8.5 extends application-
aware network performance management capabilities by integrating DPI
capabilities within CascadeFlow data from Steelhead WAN optimization solution
deployments. With detailed application level profiles, decision makers get
accurate and deep application and network visibility to identify and
characterize traffic flows across the network and among branch offices. This
capability enables organizations to quickly identify, prioritize, fine tune QoS
parameters and route business-critical applications and non-essential web
traffic. The tightly integrated solution combines market-leading WAN
optimization with QoS, path selection and application-aware network performance
management capabilities, resulting in unprecedented control.
Steelhead CX255 Series Appliance delivers enterprise WAN optimization to small
branch offices
With the introduction of Steelhead CX 255 series appliance, the infrastructure
IT team can bring performance and enterprise-class WAN optimization cost-
effectively to every branch office, including small branch offices, while
delivering the best experience. With up to six megabits per second bandwidth
capacity, the Steelhead CX 255 series appliance has tripled the through-put
capacity over the previous Steelhead CX 150 and CX 250 appliance series and
provides organizations with a small branch office solution that offers the same
benefits found in larger Steelhead WAN optimization solutions, including
decreasing bandwidth utilization by up to 98 percent and improving application
acceleration up to 100 times faster.
Availability
RiOS 8.5, Cascade Profiler 10.0.7 and the Steelhead CX series 255 appliances are
expected to be generally available in Q3 2013.
Additional Resources
-- Facebook
-- LinkedIn
-- Riverbed Blog
-- Riverbed Community
-- Twitter ((at)Riverbed)
-- YouTube
Source: Gartner, "Is MPLS Dead?," Andrew Lerner and Neil Rickard, June 17, 2013
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
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and
uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include our ability to
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 is available at www.riverbed.com.
Riverbed and any Riverbed product or service name or logo used herein are
trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used herein belong
to their respective owners.
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