Riverbed Technology, the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, has announced that the company is working with HP ProCurve to deliver WAN optimisation through the HP ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem (HP ProCurve ONE), a new multi-vendor alliance programme.
As part of this relationship, Riverbed will enable its Riverbed Optimisation System, which powers its Steelhead product family, to run on the HP ProCurve One Services zl module, a blade for the HP ProCurve Switch 5400zl and 8200zl series that consolidates partner applications onto a common platform, enabling reduced costs and optimising rack space.
Riverbed WAN optimisation running on HP ProCurve infrastructure provides customers with a next-generation data centre solution that allows CIOs to reconcile the conflicting demands of serving distributed employees with ever-increasing data management requirements with centralised IT. The joint solution should be available in the second half of 2009.
"There is a widening gap between IT requirements and budgets," says Christo Briedenhann, regional director: Africa, Riverbed. "Efforts such as IT centralisation, virtualisation and data centre consolidation are often motivated by an effort to close that gap, but often introduce performance issues at remote locations that affect the business bottom-line. Riverbed WAN optimisation solutions help overcome these issues and can make cost-cutting efforts such as IT consolidation and workforce efficiency a reality. The inclusion of the Riverbed Optimisation System in the HP ProCurve One gives customers moving to next-generation data centre models a solution that can reduce costs and the complexity of network management, while improving application performance and employee productivity."
HP ProCurve One allows customers to choose from a selection of applications and to integrate them with their networks, having the confidence that the solution has been pre-tested. To educate and support enterprises on best practices, Riverbed and HP ProCurve plan to jointly market and sell their existing solutions.
"To help customers address the increased pace of change within their businesses, HP ProCurve is combining its own technology with some of the most innovative, respected and visionary companies in the world," says Marius Haas, senior vice-president and general manager, HP ProCurve. "The integration of Riverbed's WAN optimisation with HP ProCurve infrastructure provides customers with a reliable solution for distributed enterprise environments that addresses their changing data centre needs and can increase the efficiency of network applications."
Riverbed is an IT infrastructure performance company offering a family of WAN optimisation solutions that can provide customers an order-of-magnitude more value from existing investments in networking, storage and applications. Riverbed eliminates the need to sacrifice IT strategy while cutting budgets.
Riverbed products are designed to address the constraints of distance and time, arming workers with faster application performance whether they are using applications hosted in a data centre, working in a remote office or using a laptop. With Riverbed, IT can adapt more quickly and support today's fluid, fast-paced and increasingly dispersed organisation without requiring significant upgrades in more storage, network bandwidth or equipment. Riverbed helps squeeze more value from all IT initiatives, making possible a new level of IT effectiveness while managing costs.
Over 5 000 of the world's most demanding businesses trust Riverbed to help them manage costs, while improving the overall performance of their IT infrastructure. According to IDC, organisations that deploy Steelhead appliances achieve an average return on investment of 7.3 months. To learn more, view Riverbed's demo: http://www.riverbed.com/pr/jack.
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