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Mon, June 7, 2010 Riverbed Accelerates Pathway to the Cloud With New Release of Riverbed Optimization System
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - June 7, 2010) - [ Riverbed Technology ] (
Riverbed continues to deliver acceleration for the broadest range of applications and platforms of any WAN optimization vendor. RiOS 6.1 features new optimizations for Lotus Notes 8.5. In addition, the new version provides new optimizations for a range of Microsoft suites including Exchange 2010, SharePoint, and Microsoft Online for SharePoint and Exchange. Additionally, RiOS 6.1 delivers enhanced optimizations for [ disaster recovery (DR) performance ], providing intelligent storage networking protocol enhancements to ensure better performance, greater scale and easier management for enterprises with large data center environments.
"With this release, Riverbed is providing its customers with the necessary tools to support critical IT initiatives such as private and public cloud computing, IT centralization and disaster recovery. As CIOs turn to centralized IT models to reduce costs, WAN optimization is an increasingly critical tool required to maintain performance and ensure that distant employees remain productive," said Cindy Borovick, vice president at IDC.
Superior Application and Infrastructure Flexibility
Enhanced Optimization for Microsoft Applications
Many organizations have struggled with the performance of Microsoft Exchange over the WAN, forcing them to undergo the expensive and complex task of deploying Exchange servers at each remote office to support local users. RiOS 6.1 delivers enhanced latency optimization and data reduction improvements for both encrypted and unencrypted Exchange 2010 traffic, delivering data reductions up to 95%. By taking advantage of these features, organizations can efficiently deliver Exchange traffic over the WAN and, as a result, consolidate previously distributed Exchange servers back to the data center. In addition, as many organizations focus on upgrading to Exchange 2010, Riverbed is providing them with the ability to leverage their current investment in WAN optimization by ensuring superior application performance.
In addition to Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint has become a business-critical application as enterprises strive to improve productivity by sharing documents and information in a collaborative environment. New features in RiOS 6.1 extend Riverbed's existing SharePoint optimizations, eliminating many of the performance issues encountered by remote users. RiOS 6.1 accelerates traffic at both the network layer and application layer and eliminates unnecessary round trips associated with SharePoint authentication requests, enabling Steelhead® appliances to deliver enhanced SharePoint optimization and reduce application latency and response times by up to 50 percent more than previous web acceleration found in RiOS.
Optimizing Applications in the Cloud
As organizations move to cloud environments for hosting data and applications, users become more separated from business-critical IT resources, and productivity often suffers because of poor application performance caused by latency and bandwidth limitations over the WAN. RiOS 6.1 addresses these issues for key business applications, enabling organizations to overcome the performance hurdles of moving to cloud environments. RiOS 6.1 optimizes both encrypted and unencrypted traffic for Exchange Online and provides Layer 7 application acceleration for SharePoint Online, ensuring enhanced performance for organizations leveraging Microsoft cloud-based services. Riverbed is the only WAN optimization vendor to provide enhanced acceleration and optimization for organizations using Microsoft Online for SharePoint and Exchange.
"The Riverbed Steelhead appliances have allowed International Justice Mission (IJM) to accelerate application performance -- especially email and our centralized Intranet and training running on SharePoint. These are critical applications for training our employees working in the field and communicating about rescue missions," said John Lax, Vice President of Information Systems at IJM. "We are very interested in Riverbed's plans to accelerate Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in the newest version of RiOS. As we look into upgrading our IT infrastructure to the new Microsoft portfolio, having fast access to these new applications is critical to our mission."
Enhanced Performance for Lotus Notes 8.5
In this new version of RiOS, Riverbed introduces the ability to optimize and accelerate encrypted traffic for Lotus Notes 8.5, making Riverbed the first WAN optimization vendor to optimize traffic for the latest release of Lotus Notes. This feature also provides latency optimization for Domino Server and Notes Client replication, making Riverbed the WAN optimization vendor with the broadest coverage for Domino and Lotus Notes replication use cases.
"As organizations continue to consolidate IT environments and explore cloud computing, they face performance challenges in connecting users over the WAN to business-critical applications and data. Riverbed's advanced application- and network-level fluency provides our customers with substantially improved performance over other acceleration products, regardless of which network architecture they use, which applications they run, or where their data resides," said Apurva Davé, vice president of product marketing at Riverbed.
Enhanced Disaster Recovery Performance
For organizations looking to accelerate replication traffic over the WAN, RiOS 6.1 delivers enhanced storage optimizations for DR initiatives by reducing DR traffic and accelerating replication times between data centers.
Enhanced storage networking optimizations provided by Riverbed in RiOS 6.1 include:
EMC® SRDF® Optimizations -
- Riverbed customers that use EMC Symmetrix VMAX™ and Symmetrix DMX™ will benefit from improved data reduction and throughput due to the RiOS 6.1's enhanced EMC SRDF optimization.
- RiOS 6.1 also offers a new auto-negotiate compression feature for EMC SRDF, enabling simplified management and increased availability.
FCIP Optimizations - RiOS 6.1 provides storage networking optimizations for FCIP traffic over Brocade 7500 and Cisco MDS gateways. These enhancements speed FCIP traffic to and across the network on both a protocol and a network level.
Riverbed is the first and only WAN optimization vendor to deliver both network and application-layer optimizations for large scale replication, enabling the highest levels of data reduction and throughput. According to Shawn Schmidt, infrastructure manager at Allens Arthur Robinson, a leading law firm and Riverbed customer, "Steelhead appliances are currently accelerating the replication of over 2.5 terabytes of data via EMC SRDF/A over the existing WAN infrastructure at AAR, saving over $100K in annual bandwidth for data replication. I am looking forward to deploying the application-centric SRDF optimizations that Riverbed is releasing with this next release of RiOS."
To optimize data protection, Riverbed has a number of partnerships with a variety of leading storage vendors, including Dell EqualLogic, Double-Take Software, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NetApp and Symantec.
Lastly, RiOS 6.1 provides additional enhancements that provide high availability for branch office edge services and improved network resiliency. To learn more about all of the new features in RiOS 6.1, please visit: [ http://www.riverbed.com/rios ]. RiOS 6.1 will be generally available this quarter.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, statements regarding performance results of Riverbed solutions, including RiOS 6.1, and customer cost savings resulting from implementation of Riverbed solutions that may suggest likely or certain outcomes, and statements relating to Riverbed's ability to meet the needs of distributed organizations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include our ability to react to trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate; our ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced products to meet those needs; the adoption rate of our products; our ability to establish and maintain successful relationships with our distribution partners; our ability to compete in our industry; fluctuations in demand, sales cycles and prices for our products and services; shortages or price fluctuations in our supply chain; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; general political, economic and market conditions and events; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Riverbed's business are set forth in our Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on April 30, 2010. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Any future product, feature or related specification that may be referenced in this release are for information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any technology or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right to modify future product plans at any time.
About Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the IT performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility -- all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive. Additional information about Riverbed (
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