With more powerful software and hardware,
SteelFusion 4.0 consolidates all IT at the branch into the data
center for instant branch provisioning and recovery, full security
and visibility, and apps that simply work
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ:RVBD), the leader in application
performance infrastructure, today announced Riverbed® SteelFusion™
4.0, the first and only hyper-converged infrastructure solution for
the branch of the future. SteelFusion 4.0 enables zero IT at the
branch by virtualizing and consolidating 100% of data and servers
from remote sites into data centers, centralizing data security and
IT management without losing the benefits of running branch
services locally. SteelFusion meets the IT challenges of today’s
sprawling branch environments by enabling organizations to remove
all servers, storage, and backup from remote sites; enabling
instant provisioning and recovery; providing complete security and
visibility; and ensuring that applications simply work.
In SteelFusion 4.0, the hardware platforms have been completely
updated and redesigned to deliver increased performance and
scalability for remote sites and regional hubs of all sizes.
SteelFusion 4.0 also introduces new FusionSync™ for seamless branch
continuity. FusionSync ensures that all branch data is accessible
across private and hybrid cloud environments, providing the ability
to withstand and recover from data center failures with zero
downtime. Now, with SteelFusion 4.0, enterprises can deploy a
single hyper-converged solution to centralize all branch office
data and applications in the data center as well as leverage the
cloud for continuity, resulting in dramatic increases in data
security, business continuity and agility, operational efficiency
and application performance.
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An average of over 50% of enterprise employees are based at
branch offices (remote sites, job sites, stores, manufacturing
plants, etc.), meaning that if branch applications don’t perform,
branch workers can’t work and business is lost with direct impacts
to the top and bottom line. Branch offices, remote locations and
store fronts are critical for local customer engagement, but they
require IT staff to support many islands of infrastructure that are
costly and inefficient to maintain and yet necessary to meet local
performance and reliability needs. Today, 50% of company data and
intellectual property still lives outside the data center, leaving
it unprotected, open to compromise and data breaches. Backup
processes are cumbersome and data recovery is time-consuming or
even futile without qualified IT staff at most branches, not to
mention the challenges of provisioning new services or applications
in an agile world. These activities, and others that support branch
IT operations, consume 50% of IT budgets.
SteelFusion changes the game so that enterprises can rethink
branch IT. For example, one can imagine the branch analogously as a
smart phone – a thin, small device that has access to all the
applications and data of the Internet and cloud. And yet, when one
buys a smart phone, the provider doesn’t also provide a backpack
full of application servers, storage, and backup infrastructure to
carry with it. In the age of the cloud, branch IT should be the
same way, and now it can be with Riverbed SteelFusion 4.0.
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“Branches are the front lines of business with increasing IT
needs. However, the answer to delivering customer-centric business
is not to introduce more IT complexity and infrastructure, but to
rethink branch IT,” said Paul O’Farrell, Senior Vice President and
General Manager, SteelFusion and SteelHead Product Groups at
Riverbed. “With SteelFusion 4.0, Riverbed delivers the branch of
the future with a zero branch IT solution that eliminates the
challenges of supporting remote sites. This means getting all of
the infrastructure — servers, storage and backup — out of the
branch and centralized into the data center. By doing so, companies
gain the agility to instantly provision new services and apps and
to recover data in minutes versus days. This also means data
security and control with full visibility, ensuring business
continuity, and that apps perform as if local. SteelFusion 4.0
delivers on all these promises and more.”
Many Riverbed customers are already benefiting from a zero
branch IT approach, including Weatherford, one of the largest
global oil and gas service providers. “Our
operations cover oil rigs and offshore
locations where any disruption or unavailability
of applications on site would result
in loss of production time,” explained Han Koon
Er, Asia Pacific IT Manager, Weatherford Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
“With Riverbed SteelFusion, we are able to optimize data
center processes and thereby eliminate file servers, storage
and other backup processes which require our IT
teams to be dispatched to remote locations. This has
enabled focused production on site with peace of mind that data is
secured at our data center."
The next generation of SteelFusion incorporates the following
enhancements:
- A new SteelFusion Edge platform to
support larger branch offices. The new SteelFusion Edge
platform delivers 4x the memory for virtual machines topping at
256GB to run a greater number of local workloads at larger branch
offices and regional hubs. The three models in the new SteelFusion
Edge platform also feature Advanced Tiering Cache that complements
the existing write cache with solid-state disk read functionality.
The new Edge platform replaces all existing SteelFusion Edge
models.
- A new SteelFusion Core platform to
scale large, global deployments. A new SteelFusion Core
platform complements the updated SteelFusion Edge platforms,
designed to support a larger number of branch office locations,
more capacity and faster performance to enable IT organizations to
scale to support larger enterprise deployments.
- Introducing FusionSync capabilities
for even better business continuity. This innovative capability
synchronizes branch office data across private and hybrid cloud
environments, ensuring all branch data is accessible in case of a
data center failure. Organizations can now recover from both branch
and data center outages within minutes with little to no data
loss.
“With the volume of data created and stored outside the central
data center continuing to grow significantly, CIOs are actively
looking for ways to mitigate risk and simplify the challenge of
data security and centralization, while achieving optimal
productivity in branch locations,” said Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst
at Enterprise Strategy Group. “Branch IT operations represent a
significant opportunity to address these issues, and CIOs must
carefully consider how the current state of branch IT affects the
business and bottom line, and which new technologies can help move
branches into a more secure and cost-effective operating
model."
Availability
SteelFusion 4.0 is expected to be generally available in May
2015. For more information visit the SteelFusion website or
attend the Zero Branch IT web event happening on April 28,
2015.
Riverbed SteelFusion and the Riverbed Application Performance
Management Platform™
The Riverbed Application Performance Platform™ gives CIOs
end-to-end visibility, optimization and control across an entire
enterprise. A key part of the platform, Riverbed SteelFusion is the
first and only hyper-converged infrastructure solution that enables
zero IT at the branch. SteelFusion consolidates 100% of data and
servers out of branches and into the data center where it can be
properly secured, managed and protected, while ensuring fast local
performance of branch applications and services. SteelFusion
extends the full power, security and resiliency of the data center
out to each branch site resulting in complete data security,
increased business agility and superior business continuity.
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applications perform as expected, data is always available when
needed, and performance issues can be proactively detected and
resolved before impacting business performance. Riverbed enables
hybrid enterprises to transform application performance into a
competitive advantage by maximizing employee productivity and
leveraging IT to create new forms of operational
agility. Riverbed’s 26,000+ customers include 97% of the
Fortune 100 and 98% of the Forbes Global 100. Learn more at
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