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Riverbed Services Platform (RSP)
A branch office box
A branch office box
The Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP) gives you the ability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance from Riverbed.
Consolidation and virtualization help businesses deliver valuable services more efficiently, increase flexibility, and lower costs. The Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP) gives you the ability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance from Riverbed. The Steelhead appliance is the only WAN optimization device to run industry-leading technology from VMware as the virtualization platform.
Using this revolutionary approach, you can deploy edge services virtually in all your branch offices without having to deploy and maintain full-blown servers to run the applications, thereby delivering a branch-office-in-a-box solution to organizations. This minimizes the hardware needed at the branch office, enabling you to consolidate IT operations even further.
| "Riverbed has proved to be a very cost-effective solution, and the results were immediate. I calculated payback at about four months." Tom Hanwinyoo, Network Systems Manager, American Suzuki Motor Corporation |
With the RSP, you can reduce complexity, cut costs, and simplify management, while simultaneously delivering essential local services. The RSP runs on most Steelhead appliance models to protect your existing investment and deliver better ROI.
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Game-changing Architecture
The RSP is uniquely suited to branch office server consolidation and virtualization. The Steelhead appliance is the only wide area network(WAN) optimization device to run industry leading technology from VMware as the virtualization platform, taking advantage of the skills
companies already have in house. Virtual servers run in a protected zone and do not impact the resources needed for peak Steelhead appliance operations. The RSP also enables customers to run up to five different virtual machines at once, eliminating many more servers from the branch office. And, the RSP runs on most Steelhead appliance models, enabling customers to benefit without having to replace
their previous investments in Riverbed.