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Riverbed - Bandwidth Optimisation Riverbed is an IT infrastructure performance company for optimising networks, applications and storage. Over 6,000 organisations, including 54 of the Global 100, already rely on Riverbed, the undisputed market leader in enterprise-class wide-area data services (WDS) solutions. Riverbed technologies enable application acceleration, IT consolidation, WAN bandwidth optimization, and faster WAN backup - all in a single appliance.

Steelheads Optimisation of data between Sites Steelhead Appliances Steelhead products from Riverbed Technology speed application performance and data transfer over the WAN between sites. These award-winning products overcome both bandwidth and latency problems to deliver the highest performance available on the market today. Steelhead appliances can:- *  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 Virtual Appliances 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. Mobile Clients Optimisation of data to and from Remote and Mobile Workers With Steelhead Mobile client software, companies of any size can give mobile workers LAN-like access to corporate files and applications no matter where they are in the world. Steelhead Mobile overcomes the challenges that plague mobile workers, including variable locations, inconsistent links, and high-latency environments, and it does so seamlessly and transparently. The result is higher productivity and more efficient operations, access, and performance anywhere. Steelhead Mobile Clients can:- *  Improves performance without burdening users. Steelhead Mobile operates through a simple software package installed on laptops or desktops. That means users do not need to learn new technologies, change existing processes, or find new ways to collaborate. The only difference they will see is much faster performance their applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Lotus Notes, and Microsoft Exchange, will run 8-100 times faster. *  Speeds web-based applications by 20-60 times. Steelhead Mobile is built with the same Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) software that powers the Steelhead appliance, and provides the same optimizations and benefits that dramatically improve performance and minimizes bandwidth utilization. This consistency allows organizations to implement a single solution for branch office and mobile workers for web applications that rely on HTTP and HTTPS. Business-critical applications (such as SharePoint, intranet portals, and web-based document management systems) and web-enabled ERP and CRM applications (such as SAP NetWeaver, JD Edwards, and Siebel) are all accelerated up to 60 times faster. *  Accelerates Windows 7 and 64-bit systems. A Microsoft-signed filter driver brings all the benefits of Steelhead Mobile to Windows 7 and 64-bit systems. Organizations can now improve the performance of Microsofts entire catalog of operating systems and 64-bit systems that are required by memory and data intensive applications like Revit. *  Delivers warm performance regardless of location. Branch warming allows mobile and branch office users to share optimized data and experience even greater overall acceleration. Mobile workers can reap all the benefits of Steelhead optimization. *  Lowers costs. Steelhead Mobile reduces bandwidth use by 85-99 percent, cutting data charges that can be particularly costly for users connecting over data cards and satellite links. *  Deploys quickly and easily. Steelhead Mobile interacts directly with any Steelhead appliance to provide optimization. IT managers don't need to make any changes to routers, VPN infrastructure, SSL/HTTPS servers, or any other key technologies. *  Provides custom configuration capabilities. Using the Steelhead Mobile Controller, IT administrators can control the configuration policies that determine what optimizations take place per user or groups of users. They can also give users access to Steelhead Mobile-related information, or make Steelhead Mobile completely invisible. And they can manage Steelhead Mobile remotely from the Steelhead Mobile Controller. RSP Riverbed Services Platform - Optimise the use of the Appliance Branch Office in a Box Consolidation and virtualization help businesses deliver valuable services more efficiently, increase flexibility, and lower costs. The Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) gives you the ability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually in a protected partition on the Steelhead appliance from Riverbed. The Steelhead appliance is the only WAN optimization device to run industry-leading technology from VMware as the virtualization platform. Using this revolutionary approach, you can deploy edge services virtually in all your branch offices without having to deploy and maintain full-blown servers to run the applications, thereby delivering a branch-office-in-a-box solution to organizations. This minimizes the hardware needed at the branch office, enabling you to consolidate IT operations even further. With the RSP, you can reduce complexity, cut costs, and simplify management, while simultaneously delivering essential local services. The RSP runs on most Steelhead appliance models to protect your existing investment and deliver better ROI. RSP Feature Summary *  Advanced network rules capabilities *  Ability to add virtual disk space to packages *  Support for iSCSI targets from a hosted windows package *  Enhanced watchdog for higher availability *  Runs both the Steelhead Mobile Controller (SMC-VE) or Cascade Sensor-VE *  Works virtually inpath *  Supports tested applications from a wide variety of category-leading products, as well as any VMware virtual machine RSP Packages Riverbed Steelhead Mobile Controller VE - Manages Steelhead Mobile licenses and controls the deployment, management, and reporting of Steelhead Mobile software clients. Riverbed Cascade Sensor VE - Enables seamless performance measurement and delivers network visibility in both optimized and non-optimized environments - without requiring expensive physical probes in every branch office. Riverbed Edge Services Solution - Enable services like DC, AD, file and print serving, streaming media and BranchCache while delivering LAN-like performance for end users around the globe. Microsoft Server - Run Windows Server 2008 R2, 2008 or 2003 for DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, print serving, or streaming media. Visit the Windows Server website. Microsoft Forefront - The Microsoft Threat Management Gateway (TMG) on RSP will provide URL filtering, proxy and application-and network-layer firewall in a single solution alongside our WAN acceleration. Read the solution brief or visit the Microsoft Forefront website. Microsoft Media Services - Windows Media Services 2008 is an industrial-strength platform for streaming live or on-demand audio and video content to clients over the Internet or an intranet. It contains a new, built-in cache/proxy plug-in that can be used to configure Windows Media server either as a cache/proxy server or a reverse-proxy server. Check Point - Security Gateway R70 protects your virtual systems with the same best-of-class security that you rely on for your physical network. Read the solution brief or visit the Check Point website. McAfee - Run McAfee's Firewall Enterprise Virtual Appliance with firewall, VPN, Web filtering, Anti-Spam and Content Filtering functionality on the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) that resides within the Riverbed Steelhead Appliance. Read the solution brief or visit the McAfee website. Websense - Comprehensive web filtering security in a gateway solution to protects against spyware, malicious mobile code, phishing, bots, and other threats. Also blocks spyware and keylogger communications from reaching host server and provides phishing protection. Read the solution brief or visit the Websense website. Polycom - Run a complete video communications solution that captures and manages live and on-demand video, distributes Flash and Windows Media formats, and reduces the impact of video bandwidth consumption on your network. Read the solution brief or visit the Polycom website. Qumu - This solution combines Qumu's VideoEdge and Rivebed's WAN Optimization solution to deliver a scalable, automated webcasting infrastructure that enables organizations to quickly deploy an enterprise video communications platform that delivers secure, live, and on-demand business video to hundreds or thousands of desktops, without creating network congestion. Accordent - Accordent's end-to-end solution, alongside Steelhead products, provides the framework for creating, distributing, managing and measuring the effectiveness of multimedia presentation assets, while measurably reducing the bandwidth requirements over traditional streaming infrastructures. Read the solution brief. Infoblox - Run consolidated core network services including DNS, DHCP, IPAM, RADIUS, TFTP and others that are critical to the operation of all IP based networks. Read the solution brief or visit the Infoblox website. Global Protocols - Achieve greater application performance across satellite wide area networks (WANs) while maintaining SCPS (Space Communication Protocol Standards) interoperability. Visit the Global Protocols website. Vyatta - Vyatta Subscription Edition implements a full router appliance feature set in software that can run in the RSP on Steelhead appliances. Cascade Performance Monitoring - see the results of Optimisation Riverbed Cascade is a cost-effective, easy-to-deploy solution for network and application visibility. 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 by collecting traffic data from switches, routers, and other devices, calculating performance metrics, and alerting you to problems before end-users are impacted. With Cascade, you get the visibility you need to address top network priorities like network optimization and analysis, application performance management, IT consolidation, and security. You can understand company-wide application dependencies, perform end-user experience monitoring in real-time, and get a true picture of outages or infrastructure changes. As a result, you reduce risks, costs, and business impact. For network optimization and analysis, you can: *  Plan for WAN optimization, assess the impact of your deployment, and quantify benefits *  Analyze WAN and LAN traffic to any level of depth *  Measure performance in both optimized and non-optimized environments For application performance management, you can: *  Monitor a wide variety of applications in an easy, cost-effective way *  Minimize the impact and duration of service outages *  Resolve issues proactively through powerful behavioral analytics *  Measure application and network performance from the end-user perspective For IT consolidation, you can: *  Reduce the costs and risks of data center and server consolidation *  Accelerate application discovery and dependency mapping The Cascade Product Line Unlike other solutions, which require costly installation of agents and probes on every WAN link, Cascade is an agentless monitoring solution that allows fast and cost-effective implementation. Cascade Gateway collects network flow data and sends it in condensed format to the Cascade Profiler. Profiler complements this information with Layer 7 application data retrieved from a Cascade Sensor deployed in the data center, plus performance data for optimized links, collected from remote Cascade Sensor-VE software running on the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) in remote offices. The result is complete visibility into business application performance across optimized and non-optimized environments. Whitewater Optimisation of data in the Cloud Enterprises are looking for data protection strategies that enable faster recovery SLAs, more flexible data off-siting, and lower costs. At the same time, they want to leverage their existing investments in backup software and processes. With Riverbed Whitewater appliances, enterprises can leverage cloud storage for inexpensive, pay-as-you-offsite backup, without the need for complex changes to their existing infrastructure. Whitewater appliances are cloud storage accelerators that work with existing backup software to securely accelerate and de-duplicate data to the public cloud, and enable fast restore at any time. Whitewater appliances integrate seamlessly with existing backup software like IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Symantec Netbackup, Symantec Backup Exec, and many more, ensuring that enterprises can utilize cloud storage without any changes to their fine-tuned backup software and processes. Whitewater appliances also accelerate communication and data transfer to public cloud storage, enabling enterprises to utilize off-site storage while making backup and recovery feel local. Key Whitewater Benefits: *  Makes it easy to meet accelerated recovery SLAs *  Helps simplify off-site data transporting *  Enables data protection cost reduction *  Allows you to avoid cloud vendor lock-in *  Helps effectively secure offsite data *  Integrates easily with existing backup infrastructure For more information click on the Links above