Riverbed Technology has announced Riverbed SteelFusion 3.0, the first branch converged infrastructure that centralizes data in the datacenter all the while delivering local performance and virtually instant recovery at the branch. With SteelFusion 3.0, branch servers, storage, networking, and virtualization infrastructure are combined into a single solution that reduces the average amount time to provision branch services by 30x (e.g. from five hours to ten minutes) and recovery from branch outages by 96x (e.g. from 24 hours to 15 minutes).
Riverbed Technology has announced Riverbed SteelFusion 3.0, the first branch converged infrastructure that centralizes data in the datacenter all the while delivering local performance and virtually instant recovery at the branch. With SteelFusion 3.0, branch servers, storage, networking, and virtualization infrastructure are combined into a single solution that reduces the average amount time to provision branch services by 30x (e.g. from five hours to ten minutes) and recovery from branch outages by 96x (e.g. from 24 hours to 15 minutes).
Typically, datacenters serve 55 branches with only eight percent of them having fully consolidated IT infrastructure. This results in over $4 billion being spent on remote office infrastructure and maintenance every year. Though all of the islands of distributed branch infrastructure have been essential in order to meet local performance and reliability needs to ensure the productivity of employees working in branch offices, they are costly and inefficient to manage. Companies also rarely have the expertise and experience in branches to maintain and protect data in such distributed infrastructure. When branch offices suffer outages, employee productivity and data are compromised and company revenue is impacted.
To address these issues, Riverbed founded the branch converged infrastructure market and launched Riverbed Granite, which is now called Riverbed SteelFusion.
With the SteelFusion 3.0, Riverbed features:
- 6x performance gain in the branch with a new high-end appliance: With a 6x performance gain over the previous high-end SteelFusion appliance, the new SteelFusion 1360P appliance ensures users get faster, local performance for storage-intensive workloads like Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and CAD/CAM applications.
- 3x increase in data-capacity at the datacenter with a new higher capacity controller appliance: Higher capacity on the storage delivery controller, the SteelFusion Core 3000, means storage admins can now support up to 100TB consolidated data, a 3x improvement over the previous high of 35TB supported. This enables scalability for global enterprise companies looking to consolidate their data and applications.
- Enhanced recovery innovation: A new predictive pre-fetch capability on the converged appliance, the Branch Recovery Agent further reduces recovery time from major outages. This ensures employees can remain productive with constant access to applications and data, despite major disasters.
- Simplified operations: Server, virtualization, and backup administrators will see an improved scale-out architecture with pooled management of storage delivery controllers. A new recovery agent for the converged appliance makes it simpler and faster for administrators to recover a branch from a major outage.
- Even better NetApp and EMC integration: Support for NetApp cluster mode and EMC VNX2 snapshots continue seamless integration advancements to ensure SteelFusion integrates seamlessly with data center SAN infrastructure to provide backup consolidation.
Riverbed SteelFusion is part of the Riverbed Application Performance Platform, which offers companies the flexibility to host applications and data in the locations that best serve the business all the while ensuring seamless application delivery in order to take advantage of global resources, radically reduce the cost of running their businessm and maximize employee productivity.
Availability
Riverbed SteelFusion 3.0 is slated to be generally available in early May.
