Riverbed Technology has announced edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI), a new architectural approach that allows IT to consolidate and manage all edge servers in the data center. Unlike desktop infrastructure (VDI) edge-VSI accomplishes this consolidation while delivering 20-50% lower total cost of ownership. With Riverbed Granite global enterprises have the ability to achieve total consolidation of edge applications, servers and storage to the data center, while delivering services to the edge of the enterprise as if they were local. Edge-VSI is also complementary to WAN optimization by accelerating performance for applications and use cases that are not addressed by any WAN optimization approach today.
Riverbed Technology has announced edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI), a new architectural approach that allows IT to consolidate and manage all edge servers in the data center. Unlike desktop infrastructure (VDI) edge-VSI accomplishes this consolidation while delivering 20-50% lower total cost of ownership. With Riverbed Granite global enterprises have the ability to achieve total consolidation of edge applications, servers and storage to the data center, while delivering services to the edge of the enterprise as if they were local. Edge-VSI is also complementary to WAN optimization by accelerating performance for applications and use cases that are not addressed by any WAN optimization approach today.
Granite allows storage to be decoupled from its server over thousands of miles and actually work as if the storage were local to the server. With this, users get uncompromised performance, while IT is able to manage, backup, provision, patch, expand, and protect the data for its far-flung enterprise all within the data center itself. Organizations that use Granite can expect 50% more in savings over traditional approaches to managing distributed infrastructure. This is accomplished by eliminating costly backup and recovery processes in remote locations, consolidating underutilized edge servers and storage, and cutting back on IT administration costs such as travel associated with managing infrastructure at the edge.
Granite is expected to be released this quarter.
