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Riverbed Broadens Support For Enterprise Applications With New WAN Optimization Release
Published Dec 11, 2011
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Riverbed Technology the IT performance company, announced new features and capabilities to its Riverbed® Optimization System (RiOS®) that broaden the company’s support for key enterprise applications and extend its leadership in delivering speed, scale, simplicity and security to the globally connected enterprise. With RiOS 7.0, Riverbed has expanded its already broad set of optimizations to include native support for hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) video, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and IPv6, and has extended its existing optimizations for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
Quality of Service (QoS), scale and security enhancements also provide organizations with greater control over business-critical applications. This release reinforces the Riverbed commitment to optimize all types of applications that enterprises care about, and gives customers a performance platform that is designed for the applications of both today and tomorrow.
In addition, in RiOS 7.0 Riverbed has integrated Cascade® Shark functionality into the Steelhead® appliance to deliver on-demand packet capture and analysis, allowing customers to leverage their Steelhead appliance for branch monitoring and troubleshooting. Riverbed is the only vendor to provide this level of integration between wide area network (WAN) optimization and a network performance management (NPM) solution.
Acceleration of End-to-End Video Solutions:
With the enhancements in RiOS 7.0, Riverbed extends its capabilities to provide organizations with joint solutions for complete, end-to-end video optimization for live and on-demand content. Riverbed now offers optimization for delivery of video content with native stream splitting capabilities over HTTP. For on-demand streaming, customers can combine data streamlining to store on-demand videos in branch locations, QoS to prioritize bandwidth utilization, and prepositioning to proactively improve users’ video experience. These live and on-demand optimization capabilities also leverage current partnerships with leading video content management solutions providers such as Polycom, Adobe, Qumu and Media Platform.
Riverbed now offers native stream splitting for Adobe Flash over HTTP.
Another Industry First for Riverbed – Live Video Stream Splitting for Microsoft Silverlight:
Riverbed also is the first to offer stream splitting for Microsoft Silver light. Microsoft Silver light is a powerful tool for creating and delivering rich Internet business applications and premium media experiences on the Web.
UDP for Replication Solutions and IPv6:
With the release of RiOS 7.0, organizations now have the flexibility to optimize applications that run on both TCP/IP and UDP, including replication solutions. These applications can consume substantial bandwidth, making connectionless, packet-by-packet optimization a necessity. In addition, as IPv6 is adopted, RiOS 7.0 ensures organizations can take advantage of bandwidth optimization for UDP traffic and TCP over IPv6.
Riverbed Expands Acceleration and Control for Broadest Range of Virtual Desktop Environments:
As many organizations are turning to desktop virtualization to centralize critical data and deliver IT resources more efficiently, Riverbed delivers solutions to help overcome WAN constraints such as latency, limited bandwidth, and an inability to prioritize interactive traffic that cause virtual desktop performance to slow down. The Riverbed Steelhead product family helps organizations get the most out of their virtual desktop deployments by optimizing traffic for the broadest range of solutions.
Currently Riverbed customers can overcome the performance barriers to delivering desktop virtualization for organizations utilizing Citrix Xen App and Xen Desktop, VMware View, and Microsoft RDP and RemoteFX. To further enable organizations to adopt a virtual desktop infrastructure and enhance end-user productivity, Riverbed is delivering new capabilities in RiOS 7.0 with optimization for ICA (independent computing architecture) over secure socket layer (SSL). Additionally, a new client drive mapping feature enables organizations to optimize content accessed directly from a thin client, including thumb drives.
More Understanding and Control to Address Business Priorities:
On Demand Packet Capture and Analysis for Branch Troubleshooting:
As organizations deploy new applications, including rich media content, in branch offices, end users come to expect a LAN-like experience. Therefore, IT administrators need to be able to pinpoint and resolve application performance problems quickly so that end users in the branch office aren’t negatively impacted. The Riverbed Cascade family of application-aware NPM solutions offers an elegant and simple design that deploys easily in complex networks and provides true integration with the Steelhead product family. With RiOS 7.0, Riverbed has extended that integration, allowing customers with Cascade Pilot to leverage Steelhead appliances in branch offices for on-demand packet capture and remote analysis without having to transfer huge packet capture files over the network. Now, IT administrators can detect and respond to application performance problems without expanding their hardware footprint.
Security:
For security-conscious organizations, RiOS 7.0 expands optimization capabilities to include authenticated and encrypted traffic, specifically:
• Encrypted Lotus Notes – Organizations that have embraced Lotus Notes can now accelerate Encrypted Lotus Notes traffic.
• Microsoft Online Services Optimization – Riverbed can now deliver increased performance for messaging and collaboration solutions, including Exchange Online, Share Point Online and Office Live.
• End-to-End Kerberos Authentication Support – Riverbed can now optimize applications that utilize the Kerberos authentication standard, which is used by Microsoft applications and platforms including Active Directory and Windows Server.
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VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
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