Steelhead® products from Riverbed Technology speed application performance and data transfer over the wide area network. These award-winning products overcome both bandwidth and latency problems to deliver the highest performance available on the market today. Steelhead Appliances, Steelhead Mobile client software, and Virtual Steelhead™ work for companies of all sizes.
Unlike other vendors’ offerings, Steelhead products from Riverbed go beyond simply offering Wide Area Network Optimization to help make your IT infrastructure run faster, better, and more securely — in the data center, at a branch office, on a worker’s laptop, and in public and private clouds.
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Stingray Traffic Manager Benefits Include: |
| Acceleration of key enterprise applications Riverbed Steelhead products accelerate the broad set of applications important to business. Riverbed application modules, combined with the company’s data streamlining and transport streamlining, deliver dramatic performance increases across the WAN for all TCP applications, by up to 100 times. |
| IT infrastructure consolidation and virtualization Consolidate file, email and application servers, and storage from remote branches to cut costs and operational complexity without sacrificing performance. Deploy virtual servers, desktops, and applications with reduced bandwidth requirements and response times, improving the end user experience. |
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Reduced bandwidth utilization Companies that have deployed Riverbed’s Steelhead products typically reduce bandwidth utilization by 60% to 95%, often allowing them to defer costly network bandwidth upgrades. |
| Enhanced data protection Organizations can eliminate remote backup infrastructure and remediate the risk of data disclosure through lost tapes or media. By speeding data transfer, Riverbed enables speedy, resilient and secure replication and backup over the WAN, often reducing replication times from hours to minutes. |
| Secure application acceleration Riverbed is the only company that can optimize SSL traffic without compromising the end-to-end trust model. Companies subject to compliance regulations such as SOX, HIPAA, PCI or other security requirements can deliver both performance and security for their applications. |
| Visibility and analytics Riverbed gives the visibility needed in order to determine where problems exist, analyze how those problems can be addressed, and then tune infrastructure in order to best solve those problems. Complete WAN optimization solutions not only provide order of magnitude performance improvements, but the ability to measure and monitor those improvements across optimized locations and other sites that could benefit from further optimization. |
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Enable the mobile workforce Mobile workers often receive sub-optimal application performance when they connect to resources from remote locations. With Steelhead Mobile, IT can deliver local performance to remote workers wherever they connect. |
| Virtual Steelhead appliance for custom deployments Whether organizations need to support ruggedized environments or need elastic capacity for their Steelhead deployment, the virtual Steelhead appliance fits the bill. The virtual Steelhead appliance also provides dual-ended virtualization capability wherein organizations can migrate their infrastructure to a public cloud without sacrificing application performance. |
