Riverbed targets Enterprises with Enhanced Granite Solution

For large branch offices and large data sets, Riverbed Technology has introduced new addition to its Granite product family that delivers an enterprise-class solution for server and data consolidation. This announcement includes new Granite 2.5 software that adds support for Fibre Channel to its existing iSCSI support, enabling Granite solutions to support over 90% of the current enterprise-class storage array market.

Using the expanded capacity and higher performance of Granite 2.5, IT managers can extend the benefits of Granite to larger branch offices and data-intensive applications that previously were difficult or impossible to consolidate.  

Granite 2.5 also improves data protection with automated snapshots and simplified support for existing data-center class backup and recovery software. The performance of Granite 2.5 can be further enhanced with the addition of Steelhead EX 1360 model appliance. Granite 2.5 and the Steelhead EX 1360 model appliance together deliver an enterprise-class solution for server and data consolidation that allow organizations to deploy any application to any location with high performance and reliability.

In addition, Granite 2.5 software adds Fibre Channel support for the virtual Granite Core that extends integration with enterprise-class storage arrays. Granite 2.5 further simplifies data protection through enhanced support of industry-leading backup and recovery software solutions. It also offers an enhanced centralized management user interface and simplified scheduling of hourly, daily or weekly application snapshots executed in the branch office and captured in the data center.

Granite 2.5 and Steelhead EX 1360 model appliances are expected to be generally available in Q3 2013.