Riverbed: Expanding solutions in 2010

BANGALORE, INDIA: Riverbed Technology, the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced that Gartner has identified Riverbed in its recent December 2009 report, "Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide 3Q09," as the WOC (WAN optimization controller) Advanced Platform (AP) worldwide market share leader for 3Q 2009 based on revenue.

According to Gartner’s market share report, Riverbed increased its revenue share from the previous quarter by 1.8 percentage points, to 34.3 pc.

Enterprises leverage Riverbed WAN optimization to improve remote and mobile employee productivity, enable private clouds, and provide enterprise-wide network and application visibility. By speeding the performance of applications between remote offices, private data centers and mobile workers, in some cases by up to 100 times, Riverbed Steelhead products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Nearly 7,000 customers, across a wide range of markets, have implemented Riverbed WAN optimization solutions in their geographically dispersed organizations.

 

In a separate report published in June 2009 by Gartner, Riverbed was positioned in the leaders quadrant in the “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controller (WOC), 2009” authored by Andy Rolfe, Joe Skorupa and Severine Real.  According to Gartner, “Leaders exhibit an ability to shape the market by introducing additional capabilities in their product offerings and by raising awareness of the importance of these features. We expect a Leader to be growing the market as a whole, and to have solutions that resonate with an increasing number of enterprises. Leaders in the WOC market need to have a broad feature set, including QoS, generic compression, protocol acceleration and file system acceleration, with the majority of features proven in substantial real-world implementations. They also need to be able to offer sales and support on a global basis.”

Riverbed: Expanding Solutions in 2010

Riverbed WAN optimization allows organizations to overcome the performance barrier to successfully consolidating IT infrastructure into private clouds. In 2010, Riverbed will begin to introduce solutions that extend the benefits of acceleration to applications and storage in the public cloud.

“Our success is a testament to our ability to align technology innovation with customer requirements, which have expanded to include overcoming performance barriers in different types of cloud environments – including private, hybrid and public,” said Eric Wolford, senior vice president of business development and marketing at Riverbed. “Our solution is a critical component in developing a cost-effective and efficient IT infrastructure because we enable organizations to successfully consolidate, virtualize and accelerate data and applications anywhere in the world - even thousands of miles away - without experiencing performance problems.”

Speeding Application Performance in the Cloud

Building on its success in enabling organizations large and small to build private clouds, Riverbed recently unveiled its cloud direction, including the upcoming virtual Steelhead for the cloud, which will extend the benefits of Riverbed WAN optimization by accelerating the performance of applications and data transfers across private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructures.

Accelerating Cloud Storage

Similar to how Riverbed addressed fundamental protocol inefficiencies for applications (used over the WAN) that resulted in order of magnitude performance gains, Riverbed will release advanced new technology that addresses fundamental protocol inefficiencies for block storage protocols that again produce order of magnitude performance gains over the WAN.  What was deemed impossible before—running any block protocol over the WAN—will be possible with this new technology.  This new innovation enables thousands of miles of separation between storage and compute resources, transforming the WAN into a SAN.  

“We continue to grow our product leadership as we ensure high-performance access to applications and storage. As customers embrace the adoption of private, public and hybrid cloud models and their users move further from their data, we are raising the bar for delivering innovative solutions to meet their needs,” said Wolford.