Riverbed Delivers High-Performance Data Center Solution with New Steelhead Appliance

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 17, 2010 --

Dubai – March 17, 2010 – Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, has announced the Riverbed® Steelhead® 7050 model wide area network (WAN) optimization appliance. To deliver unmatched performance, flexibility and fault tolerance in large data centers and private cloud environments, the Steelhead 7050 model appliance combines new levels of bandwidth and TCP session scalability with solid-state drives (SSD) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE). This powerful new appliance efficiently scales to meet the performance, reliability and flexibility requirements of large enterprises and allows them to more cost-effectively manage large-scale data center-to-data center replication, accelerate applications among many locations and users in an enterprise, and build large private cloud infrastructures.

The Steelhead 7050 is the first WAN optimization appliance where the persistent data store is 100% resident on SSDs, minimizing disk access times and latency to allow it to deliver the speed necessary to handle extreme work loads. The Steelhead 7050 optimizes up to 100,000 concurrent optimized TCP connections and up to one Gigabit per second WAN-side throughput, and utilizes up to four 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) network interface cards.

Riverbed Storage Partners: Elevating Disaster Recovery (DR) Plans and Maximizing Infrastructure

Riverbed has a strong eco-system of alliances with storage partners, including Brocade, Compellent, Dell™ EqualLogic™, Double-Take® Software, EMC and NetApp. These partners recognize the value that the Steelhead 7050 model appliances provide in enabling enterprises to elevate their DR strategies and maximize their infrastructure.

“Our customers rely on EMC storage to enable their disaster recovery strategies. We look forward to working with Riverbed in enhancing that strategy for customers through its release of its next generation Steelhead appliance,” said Deirdre Wassell, Director of Storage Product Marketing, at EMC.

Steelhead 7050 model appliances provide the following benefits:

First WAN Optimization Appliance with Solid-State Drives: Enhanced Speed and Performance

The Steelhead 7050 comes equipped with up to 28 SSDs that allow for higher throughput for read, write and search performance. Faster throughput shortens the time required to move data across the WAN to DR sites, allowing enterprises to protect more data, more often. It also delivers greater scale for accelerating branch office computing. And, like other Steelhead appliances, the Steelhead 7050 data reduction capabilities free up more bandwidth for business-critical applications, often reducing WAN traffic as much as 60-95%.

Continuous Optimization for Increasingly Stringent Business Continuity Requirements with Datastore Fault Tolerance
Enterprises face stringent recovery point objective (RPO)/recovery time objective (RTO) requirements, necessitating that WAN optimization applian