Riverbed products improve your IT infrastructure, speed up application performance, and reduce bandwidth utilization.
Riverbed Professional Services (RPS) is a global organization consisting of WAN optimization experts aligned with your business objectives to maximize your Riverbed investment.
Steelhead Product Family
WAN Optimization that Delivers IT Performance for Enterprise and Cloud Computing
Steelhead products from Riverbed Technology speed application performance and data transfer over the WAN. These award-winning products overcome both bandwidth and latency problems to deliver the highest performance available on the market today. Steelhead appliances, Steelhead Mobile client software, and Virtual Steelhead work for companies of all sizes. Unlike other vendors’ offerings, Steelhead products from Riverbed go beyond simply offering WAN optimization to help make your IT infrastructure run faster, better, and more securely — in the data center, at a branch office, on a worker’s laptop, and in public and private clouds.
With Steelhead products, you can meet the demand for anywhere-anytime access and improve user satisfaction, while lowering operational overhead and expenses.
Steelhead products from Riverbed
- Accelerate the broad range of applications businesses care about most, including file sharing (CIFS and NFS), Exchange (MAPI), Lotus Notes, web (HTTP- and HTTPS-based applications), database (MS SQL and Oracle), and disaster recovery (EMC SRDF and FCIP) applications, using a range of application protocol-specific features that are unique to Riverbed
- Enable the consolidation of file, email, and application servers from remote branches to reduce costs and complexity — without sacrificing performance
- Cut bandwidth usage, typically by 60- 95 percent, allowing you to defer expensive upgrades
- Offer real-time visibility into application and WAN performance, so you can use applications and resources more efficiently and effectively
- Optimize performance while maintaining security to help you meet audit, compliance regulations, and other security requirements
- Deploy in minutes without changes to applications, users, routers, or IT infrastructure
- Integrate easily and seamlessly into the most complex environments
- Scale to hundreds of sites with any-to-any connectivity; support tens of thousands of users on one device
With Riverbed Virtual Steelhead appliances, WAN optimization now extends to deployments where physical hardware may not be conveniently suited. Military deployments typically use ruggedized custom hardware, on which running a virtual machine is more convenient. Space-limited scenarios, such as mobile news vans or construction trailers may also require a form factor that is free from the physical limitations of hardware appliances.
The Virtual Steelhead appliance can be managed by industry standard virtualization tools such that it fits seamlessly into fully virtualized data center environments, where interoperability with existing management infrastructure is a must have. While targeted specifically for the above mentioned scenarios, Virtual Steelhead appliances can also be deployed as a cluster in order to scale to data center environments.
Cloud Service Products
Whitewater & Steelhead
Riverbed Cloud Service products, Whitewater and Steelhead, enable organizations to improve their data protection and disaster recovery strategies quickly and easily.
While public clouds offer numerous benefits, including scalability, cost, and ease of management, they also present challenges that must be overcome before organizations can start reaping these benefits. Riverbed is happy to announce two new cloud service products that overcome those challenges.
Riverbed Whitewater
The Riverbed Whitewater appliance enables organizations to increase their data protection and disaster recovery strategies by moving backup data directly into cloud storage. Organizations looking to leverage cloud storage will be able to deploy Whitewater without any changes to their existing backup processes or products. Moreover, backups moved into the cloud will be reduplicated in-line, reducing overall bandwidth and cloud storage requirements, and the data will be secured at rest, as well as in flight to the cloud, making cloud storage, cloud backup, and cloud archive an integral part of an organization’s data protection strategy.
Key Whitewater Benefits:
- Reduce disaster recover costs with cloud data protection
- Meet accelerated recovery SLAs
- Simplify off-site data storage for DR
- Secure offsite data
- Deploy with no change to existing backup infrastructure
Cloud Steelhead
Cloud Steelhead offers the same WAN optimization functionality you’ve come to know and trust, in a form factor that’s much better suited for public cloud environments. It completely interoperates with Steelhead appliances, Virtual Steelhead, and Steelhead Mobile clients.
Cloud Steelhead includes tools that allow for instant deployment and easy cloning of instances. It also has a uniquely advanced model for intercepting traffic in the cloud. In addition, a new portal allows for easy management and licensing, and instant upgrades of cloud Steelhead instances.
Key benefits of Cloud Steelhead:
- Instant deployment
- Simple, portal-based management
- Elastic sizing and easy cloning
- Advanced cloud interception
- Cloud-like pricing model
Cascade Network Performance Management
Advanced visibility, monitoring and analysis for network and application performance.
Riverbed Cascade provides a cost-effective, enterprise-wide solution for network visibility and performance management. To deliver the performance that the business needs, network and application teams need complete visibility into the applications, servers, and users on their network. Cascade fulfills this need with network monitoring, network traffic recording and analysis, discovery and dependency mapping and troubleshooting capabilities that collect traffic data on the network and alert network managers to problems before business is impacted.
Cascade combines flow analysis, packet analysis, and retrospective packet capture to provide an integrated, top-down, application-aware network performance management solution. Cascade gives network managers a single, integrated view of all network data, so they can discover and map critical services and applications, view and report on their status, and troubleshoot performance and security problems faster than is possible with competitive solutions. As a result, the impact and duration of service outages is minimized and network management costs are reduced. Typical results include 83% faster problem resolution and 34% fewer downtime incidents per month.
Network Monitoring
- View application and network status with an easy-to-use, executive-level dashboard
- Monitor a wide variety of applications using a non-intrusive approach (no agents)
- Get early warning for performance problems through powerful behavioral analytics
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshoot network problems through business-centric views and in-depth, retrospective analysis
- Drill into performance metrics and packet-level data to find the sources of problems
- All data from all sources is combined into a single data set and a single view
Discovery and Dependency Mapping
- Find out what is running on the network and who is using it
- Reduce the costs and risks of data center and server consolidation, and get consolidation benefits sooner
- Accelerate disaster recovery, cloud and other IT projects
WAN Optimization and Analysis
- Plan for WAN optimization, assess the impact of the deployment, and quantify benefits
- Measure performance accurately in both optimized and non-optimized environments
- Use Riverbed Steelhead appliances as remote performance data collectors
Security
- Detect threats across the entire network using a behavioral approach that does not rely on signatures or blacklists
- Detect unauthorized activities, users, applications, or hosts
- Enforce regulatory and IT governance policy
