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Riverbed launches ten new Riverbed SteelHead solutions powered by RiOS 10
Dave Donatelli, CEO Riverbed
R iverbed introduced new and enhanced acceleration solutions, vastly improving enterprise network performance, security and IT agility, advancing customers’ ability to thrive in the era of AI and massive data growth. This ground-breaking launch, Riverbed’ s most comprehensive acceleration announcement in seven years, includes ten new Riverbed SteelHead solutions powered by RiOS 10, the company’ s next-generation acceleration software.
Riverbed’ s industry-leading solutions enable customers to speed the movement of enterprise data across connected clouds, data centres, and the edge with enhanced security and operational agility.
Additionally, customers now have the option to consume these new solutions via the new Riverbed Flex subscription offering, delivering greater architectural freedom, license portability, value-retention, and improved total-cost-of-ownership.
Riverbed’ s new Flex subscription offering gives customers architectural freedom and strong investment protection. Licenses can be easily transferred from hardware to virtual to cloud devices at no cost. Customers can dynamically reassign license capacity across devices, scale capacity up or down based on business needs, and upgrade hardware more cost-effectively as Riverbed introduces new technologies.
“ Riverbed was founded 23 years ago this month with a focus on accelerating applications and the movement of data over networks. AI and data-hungry applications have introduced new and more demanding network requirements,” said Dave Donatelli, CEO of Riverbed.
Next-Generation SteelHead Acceleration Appliances Powered by RiOS 10
RiOS 10, a significant update to Riverbed’ s acceleration software that has powered more than 100,000 operating locations globally, will deliver new levels of performance for cloud, data centres and the edge, helping customers secure data delivery through advances such as post-quantum cryptography, platform security, and confidential computing.
For customers demanding the utmost performance, the new Riverbed SteelHead 90 series will offer new levels of resilient networking performance and value. The four appliances range from the Data Centre-ready CXA-8090 to the CXA-2090 optimised for Edge deployments.
For virtualised environments, Riverbed SteelHead Virtual, powered by RiOS 10, is a software only version designed for private cloud deployments delivering similar appliance performance levels and is compatible with VMWare ESXI, KVM and Microsoft Hyper-V.
Customers now have the option to consume these new solutions via the new Riverbed Flex subscription.
To further help customers overcome the unique challenges of edge computing, Riverbed is also introducing SteelHead RS, a new software solution that projects business-critical data to the edge while providing near real-time data synchronisation between the edge and the data centre, enabling fast local application and AI processing at the edge, while maintaining data consistency across the edge and core.
Riverbed SteelHead Cloud, powered by RiOS 10, will deliver breakthrough acceleration benefits across the broadest range of cloud providers – including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and new – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform.
The new SteelHead Cloud offering, available in each cloud providers’ marketplace, enables enterprises to move data and applications at speeds up to 20 Gbps, ensuring optimal application performance, faster delivery, and significant cost savings compared to traditional methods. •
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