Riverbed launches SteelFusion 3.0

Riverbed Technology has announced Riverbed SteelFusion 3.0 (formerly known as Riverbed Granite), the first branch converged infrastructure that centralizes data in the data center and delivers local performance and nearly instant recovery at the branch. SteelFusion fuses branch servers, storage, networking, and virtualization infrastructure into a single solution that, as measured by Taneja Group, reduces the average time to provision branch services by 30x (from five hours to ten minutes) and recovery from branch outages by 96x (from 24 hours to 15 minutes) Convergence For The Branch Office: Transforming Resiliency and TCO with Riverbed SteelFusion, Taneja Group Technology Validation, April, 2014.

“With more and more branches and data, organizations are struggling with the cost and inefficiency of managing islands of infrastructure – servers, apps and storage – outside the data center. Riverbed developed the first solution that delivers all the benefits of converged infrastructure found in the data center, such as performance, security, scalability, better disaster recovery, and manageability, but optimized for the unique requirements of the branch. With SteelFusion, Riverbed has completely changed the game with branch IT infrastructure.
Businesses get the best of both worlds: centralizing data to eliminate branch downtime, improve data security, and lower TCO while still delivering local access to apps and data for branch workers,” said John Martin, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, Storage Delivery, Riverbed.   

With SteelFusion, businesses can restore branch operations in a matter of minutes versus days, centrally protect and secure data in the data center and significantly lower the TCO of branch and remote offices.

Riverbed SteelFusion is part of the Riverbed Application Performance Platform, the most complete platform for location-independent computing that gives companies the flexibility to host applications and data in the locations that best serve the business while ensuring flawless application delivery to better leverage global resources, radically reduce the cost of running their business and maximize employee’s productivity.