Johannesburg, 13 Mar 2017
Riverbed Technology today announced Riverbed SteelFusion 5.0, which includes new support of network attached storage (NAS), enhancing the flexibility and ease of managing remote and branch office IT.
Riverbed SteelFusion is the only solution that provides the ability to "project" storage assets from data centres or the cloud out to remote business locations, eliminating the cost and security risk associated with managing islands of remote storage and backup infrastructure.
Riverbed also announced it has surpassed 1 000 customers for SteelFusion, helping organisations around the world transform their approach to managing remote and branch office IT infrastructure with a software-defined approach that delivers the security, agility and cost-effectiveness required by today's modern enterprise.
"Riverbed is proud to deliver a software-defined edge solution with SteelFusion 5.0, which provides a cloud-grade experience for managing edge IT infrastructure," said Allan Paton, Regional Vice-President, UK, at Riverbed Technology. "With SteelFusion, organisations benefit from an extensible and software-defined services solution that delivers unprecedented flexibility, control, and automation for managing remote office IT. By adding support for data centre NAS to its support for SAN and object-based storage, our customers now have complete flexibility to extend the power, security and protection of data centre and cloud-based storage out to every location where they do business."
In today's cloud-centric and digital world, IT organisations face new challenges in remote and branch office locations. IT is being tasked to increase business agility, reduce operational costs, and assure information security and application performance, all while navigating unprecedented complexity rising from cloud adoption and hybrid IT. SteelFusion streamlines and transforms how IT manages remote IT infrastructure by centralising 100% of remote data along with corresponding backup and recovery procedures. With its unique ability to project storage and virtual services from centrally managed data centres or from the cloud out to remote locations, SteelFusion gives IT a scalable approach to deploying and managing remote applications and services across any number of business locations.
Now with SteelFusion 5.0, organisations and service providers can enable this software-defined edge solution in multiple ways, based on their desired approach, extending the value of traditional on-premises data centre storage (SAN, NAS), private cloud (software-defined storage) or public cloud (Object) scenarios. NAS storage systems continue to be a significant and attractive storage backend for VMware environments. As a significant number of enterprise IT organisations continue to leverage a mix of storage options (Block, File, and Object), SteelFusion 5.0 offers flexibility by supporting all storage protocols in the data centre or cloud and extending them all the way to the edge with a consistent, centralised operating model. To learn more about all key benefits of SteelFusion 5.0, visit https://www.riverbed.com/products/steelfusion.html.
SteelFusion surpasses 1 000 customers globally
SteelFusion has continued to gain momentum in the market over the past several years. Now, with over 1 000 customers, organisations around the globe are benefiting from implementing a software-defined approach to managing remote and branch office IT.
Leading global organisations across all industries are seeing significant benefits using Riverbed SteelFusion:
* Riverbed helps energy company Engen centralise remote and branch office IT and accelerate application performance - (view press release) - Global energy company Engen leverages SteelFusion to centralise remote and branch office (ROBO) IT, and improve productivity, backup and data security across its multinational organisation.
SteelFusion is expected to be available towards the end of March.
For more information on SteelFusion, visit http://www.riverbed.com/products/steelfusion.html.
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