Riverbed launches SteelHead Appliance for Hybrid Enterprise

To meet the needs of modern applications in hybrid enterprise, Riverbed Technology has introduced the most powerful Riverbed SteelHead appliances to date. It offers a new hardware form-factor to complement the most complete visibility, control, and optimization solution to accelerate performance of on-premises, cloud, and SaaS applications delivered with SteelHead 9.0 and Riverbed SteelCentral AppResponse 9.5 in November 2014. The new SteelHead CX 70 series includes a complete hardware update, including solid-state drive-based architecture, double the RAM capacity and increased processing power for great scalability and even better application performance.

While hybrid architectures and SaaS applications help organizations lower costs, reduce time-to-market, and improve end-user productivity, they also create management challenges for CIOs and IT teams as they attempt to deliver an optimal and consistent end-user experience. CIOs need visibility, control, and optimization into and across all of this complexity from the source to the end-user to ensure that all on-premises, cloud, and SaaS applications perform to the SLAs determined by the business.

Paul O'Farrell, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, SteelHead Products Group, Riverbed, said, "SteelHead has always delivered unparalleled optimization to applications, and we’ve now added visibility and control across hybrid apps and hybrid networks, which are critical to enabling hybrid enterprises to achieve peak performance. Our new CX70 hardware series coupled with SteelHead 9.0 and SteelCentral AppResponse 9.5, offers the most powerful solution for IT to transform application performance into business performance."

To address the challenges, SteelHead CX 70 series can securely optimize the growing number of connections between end-users and web-based application servers. And, as IT moves away from centralized network environments and adopts more cloud infrastructures, SteelHead also provides network traffic information that improves the visibility essential to troubleshooting, fixing, and, ultimately, preempting network and application degradation, while optimizing applications and prioritizing network traffic based on business needs.