Riverbed moves to Public Cloud with Cloud Steelhead
Riverbed Technology has announced that the company has enhanced the capabilities of its Cloud Steelhead wide area network (WAN) optimization solution, adding compatibility with ESX-based public cloud services. Additionally, Riverbed has extended the breadth of partnerships with cloud service providers for Cloud Steelhead, giving customers greater freedom of choice when choosing to migrate data and services to the public cloud.
"As our customers explore migrating business-critical IT services to the public cloud, they have turned to Riverbed to ensure that performance will not suffer," said Apurva Dave, Vice-President - Product Marketing, Riverbed. "Cloud Steelhead enables customers to get the most out of their investment in public cloud services, overcome the performance hurdles inherent in the cloud, and ensure that end-users are able to access the data and applications they need to do business."
With the expansion of its cloud service provider ecosystem, Riverbed offers its customers greater flexibility in choosing cloud service providers. Cloud Steelhead offers validated technical compatibility with a number of cloud service providers, including Terremark, ZettaServe and Xtium, as well as solution technology partners CloudSwitch and Media Platform. These companies join Amazon EC2 and VPC as part of the wide ecosystem of cloud services supported by Cloud Steelhead. Cloud Steelhead enables service providers to ensure enterprise-class performance for customers, enabling them to build differentiated service offerings for organizations looking to leverage the benefits of the cloud.
"Xtium has worked closely with Riverbed to provide a validated solution that gives customers high-performance access to our secure, reliable and cost-effective on-demand cloud resources. Furthermore, Cloud Steelhead enables us to provide differentiated solutions to customers looking to realize the flexibility and cost benefits of the cloud without sacrificing end-user performance and productivity," said Tim Vogel, Chief Technical Officer, Xtium.
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