Riverbed Adds Cloud, Virtual Options to SteelFusion

PRESS RELEASE — NEW YORK – September 13, 2016 – Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, today announced it is offering Riverbed® SteelFusion™ in new cloud and virtual deployment options for greater customer choice and flexibility. SteelFusion, the leading software-defined edge solution, allows organizations to centralize distributed ROBO (remote office and brand office) IT infrastructure and operations in a data center, the cloud, or a hybrid combination for better management, security, agility, and cost-effectiveness.

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The new cloud and virtual deployment options include:

“Riverbed is pleased to offer new cloud and virtual options with SteelFusion, providing customers with the flexibility they need when deploying and managing operations at the edge in today’s hybrid IT landscape,” said Paul O’Farrell, Senior Vice President and General Manager of SteelHead, SteelFusion and SteelConnect at Riverbed. “Businesses can now centralize apps, data, infrastructure and IT services in any combination of private, public, and hybrid clouds, and deliver them securely to users anywhere across the edge with optimized performance. With our unique software-defined edge approach, Riverbed is transforming edge IT by allowing organizations to centralize operations, improve information security, and maximize employee productivity at remote locations.”{ad}

This announcement builds on the last SteelFusion release in March, which enabled cloud-based data storage – with support for Azure through Microsoft StorSimple and Amazon Web Services through AWS Storage Gateway – across remote locations for added capacity and backup. Now, SteelFusion is further expanding upon its cloud integrations with support for …

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… the enterprise cloud platform, IBM Cloud.

“IBM and Riverbed have a long history of successful partnering to provide our clients with IT infrastructure that is flexible and easy to manage,” said Mac Devine, VP & CTO of Emerging Technology & Advanced Innovation at IBM.  “We are excited to leverage Riverbed’s technology to allow our customers to optimize remote and branch office IT operations in the cloud. With SteelFusion and IBM Cloud enterprise platform, our mutual customers can extend the hybrid cloud ecosystem to the branch office. This provides clients with the ability to orchestrate a software-defined edge solution in the cloud for increased agility, security and cost savings at the edge.” 

Further enhancing the flexibility of SteelFusion, Avnet intends to help solution providers and their customers achieve a software-defined edge by delivering a fully integrated system to meet specific deployment requirements at remote sites.

“Working with Riverbed to offer Virtual SteelFusion Edge on solutions built by Avnet will give Avnet partners new capabilities to meet their customers’ business and infrastructure needs at edge locations,” said Cheryl Neal, vice president, Data and Networking, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas. “Partners will be able to use this offering to build customized software-defined edge solutions for their customers on industry-standard servers. At the same time, partners will be able to rely on Avnet’s solutions specialist approach and highly experienced integration services team to provide complete solutions that are ready to be deployed for their customers.”

Riverbed® SteelFusion™ delivers unprecedented simplicity, agility, data security, and business continuity to distributed enterprises. SteelFusion enables a software-defined edge by bringing together best-of-breed virtualization, intelligent storage caching, and industry-leading WAN optimization into a single hyper-converged infrastructure solution that meets both the needs of the enterprise for low operational costs, high security, and fast business agility as well as the needs of branch employees for high-performing applications that simply work. SteelFusion is the only hyper-converged infrastructure solution designed with the unique challenges of edge IT in mind:

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Today, Riverbed is hosting Riverbed Disrupt, a premier customer and influencer event in New York City, where new features of SteelFusion will be featured. The event will also feature discussions around the significant network transformation underway as businesses shift to digital services in a cloud-centric world. For more information on the event, visit www.riverbed.com.

For more information on SteelFusion, visit http://www.riverbed.com/products/steelfusion.html. 

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Riverbed, at more than $1 billion in annual revenue, is the leader in Application Performance Infrastructure, delivering the most complete platform for the hybrid enterprise to ensure applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues can be proactively detected and resolved before impacting business performance. Riverbed enables hybrid enterprises to transform application performance into a competitive advantage by maximizing employee productivity and leveraging IT to create new forms of operational agility. Riverbeds 27,000+ customers include 97% of the Fortune 100 and 98% of the Forbes Global 100. Learn more at www.riverbed.com.