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Riverbed intros Steelhead appliance

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Harmeet
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USA: Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, has expanded its market-leading Riverbed Steelhead wide area network (WAN) optimization product family, delivering a new purpose-build appliance - the Steelhead DX Edition 8000 Series - to address the unique needs of datacenter-to-datacenter data replication workloads, delivering up to 60 times WAN performance acceleration and up to 99 percent bandwidth reduction.

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With the Riverbed Steelhead DX Edition 8000 Series, organizations can transfer and protect more data more often, with less risk and cost and recover data far more rapidly to improve business continuity.

Today, WAN performance plays a central role in strategic business initiatives such as datacenter consolidation, centralization of branch servers and storage and transitioning from tape-based backup to WAN-based data replication.

Given the rapid growth in data combined with these initiatives that are consolidating more data in fewer datacenters, organizations are struggling to maintain the service-level agreements, such as Recovery Point and Time Objectives (RPO/RTO), associated with mission-critical business continuity and disaster recovery processes.

To transfer and protect more data more often, organizations must ensure fast and predictable WAN performance despite common WAN performance impairments - high latency, packet loss, limited bandwidth and competition among applications, while protecting the bottom line by eliminating the unnecessary costs and delays associated with WAN infrastructure upgrades.