Whitewater 3 – waves of innovation washing onto the shore
Riverbed recently released the latest edition of it’s cloud storage gateway, both upgrading the software and providing new hardware options.
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Your Salesforce.com, only faster.
As mentioned in my previous post Riverbed has a joint SaaS optimization solution with Akamai called Steelhead Cloud Accelerator. In this blog post I will show you how to use this technology to accelerate your salesforce (people and the application).
Boot from SAN? How about boot from WAN!
With Granite we can use your consolidated infrastructure in the datacenter to power your branch remotely while still delivering on centralized management and provisioning.
SSL Acceleration
One of the prerequisites for WAN optimization is that the traffic we are attempting to de-duplicate across the WAN is not encrypted, we need “clear-text” data in order to find data patterns so de-duplication is most optimum.
Riverbed Whitewater and Caringo CAStor
One of the coolest, in my humble opinion of course, solutions I was able to work with when I was at Dell, was the CAStor Object Storage system from Caringo, OEM’ed as the Dell DX6000.
Managing Riverbed VSP with VMware vCenter
Riverbed has recently released version 2 of the EX platform software, this includes RiOS 8 and Virtual Services Platform v2. VSPv2 runs VMware ESXi 5 as it’s hypervisor layer and as such can be managed by VMware vCenter.
Using Windows Azure Cloud Storage with Riverbed Whitewater
Riverbed Whitewater allows you to connect your on-premise backup and archive environment to a public cloud storage provider like Microsoft’s Windows Azure.