Riverbed
Steelhead Appliances
The Riverbed product family includes Riverbed Steelhead appliances and Riverbed’s Steelhead Mobile software. Both solutions enable wide-area data services (WDS) for organizations of all sizes. These products make it easy for organizations to accelerate the applications that are most important to their users, anywhere in the world.
Deployment of Riverbed Steelhead appliances help to solve the following problems:
- Poor application performance
- Insufficient, expensive or congested network bandwidth into remote offices
- Difficulties in IT consolidation
- Challenges with slow remote data backup and replication
- Increasing demands of the mobile workforce
Within a Citrix environment, Riverbed provides additional benefits beyond the ICA native optimizations and results show that Steelhead appliances improve Citrix ICA bandwidth utilization by 50% in most cases and up to 90% in some cases. Read the White Paper here.
Steelhead appliances are available in a range of sizes to meet the needs of any remote office — from small sales offices with just a few people, to major design centres and corporate facilities with thousands of employees.
The optional Central Management Console (CMC) appliance, allows organizations to configure and manage many Steelhead appliances simultaneously. The CMC allows group management of devices, dynamic reporting, scheduled operations, over-the-wire software upgrades, and automatic ‘touch less’ setup of new Steelhead appliances in your network.
RiOS 6 – the latest version of Riverbed’s operating system includes acceleration for Mac CIFS clients of up to 60X. As Mac clients become more popular in the workplace, IT must deliver the same level of service for them as for Windows. Now Macs can benefit from faster WAN access to Windows file shares.
Citrix ICA acceleration has also been improved with up to 40% faster response times and 83% bandwidth reduction. Many Citrix customers have struggled with performance across the WAN, impacting end user acceptance and productivity. Riverbed now has simplified configuration and enhanced QoS capabilities for Citrix delivering both bandwidth reduction and better response times.
Printing across the WAN suffers heavy performance penalties, and can cause a lot of extra load on the network. Riverbed has extended CIFS optimizations to work for Windows print traffic, improving data reduction and adding up to 4X faster performance.
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