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When ABD Insurance & Financial needed to optimize the connection between its remote data centers and more, Riverbed was able to meet their diverse needs. 

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Acceleration for Cloud Storage

Whitewater™ Appliance Solutions

With Riverbed Whitewater™ cloud storage acceleration appliances, your business can utilize public and private cloud storage and cloud backup infrastructure to reduce IT costs; increase application performance, bandwidth, and data protection; and enable simple disaster recovery strategies. The Whitewater™ appliance enables enterprises and organizations to augment their data protection strategy by leveraging the economics and scalability of cloud storage to deliver a fast, secure, and cost-efficient way to move backups into the cloud

Cloud storage represents a great way to augment existing data protection infrastructure because it provides a cheap, reliable and efficient method for dealing with data growth within the enterprise. Still, concerns remain, including security, performance and the ability to leverage existing backup systems. Building on Riverbed’s industry leading deduplication and acceleration capabilities, Whitewater appliances alleviate these concerns by delivering:

  • Speed- The ability to transport data faster into the cloud.
  • Security- Data moved into the cloud is secured both in-flight and at rest.
  • Cost-efficiency- Combining de-duplication and pay-as-you-go, the overall cost of cloud storage and data off-siting is reduced.
  • Ease-of-use- Leverage existing systems and investments, with minimal configuration changes.

Businesses and organizations looking for a better way to offsite data will find that Whitewater is the best option to move backup data into the cloud. The cloud offers the dual benefits or scalability and on-demand growth, which means that storage architects no longer need to pre-provision storage requirements that could be inefficient and require capital expenditure upfront. The shift from capital to operational expenditure means that CIOs are able use their IT budgets more efficiently and devote CapEx savings to other strategic initiatives.

Whitewater appliances leverage a number of characteristics to deliver optimum performance for accelerating backups to cloud storage.

  • Deduplication- Industry-leading deduplication eliminates redundant data within backup streams. The Whitewater appliance’s deduplication is byte-based with variable-size dedupe segments. This is more granular than regular fixed or variable block-based deduplication and provides an additional 50-70 percent savings on storage and bandwidth requirements.
  • Security- The data ingested by Whitewater appliances is secured with 256-bit AES at rest, and with SSL v3 in-flight across the network. This dual layer of security minimizes the risk of data being compromised.
  • Local storage The Whitewater appliance has a finite-sized disk. This keeps backup data local while it’s replicated to the cloud. Most recent restores come from the appliance, and are also local. If older restores are needed, the data is brought back from the cloud.
  • Integration- Whitewater appliances integrate with existing backup products and can be mounted as a CIFS or NFS target to the media server. At the backend they write directly to cloud storage via REST/HTTP/SOAP APIs. This is done without any rip-and-replace of existing backup systems, and with minimal configuration changes.

Riverbed. WAN optimization for your network: Application acceleration, WAN bandwidth optimization, and IT consolidation
Riverbed Technology delivers performance for the globally connected enterprise. With Riverbed, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery without fear of compromising performance. By giving enterprises the platform they need to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT, Riverbed helps enterprises to build a fast, fluid and dynamic IT architecture that aligns the business needs of the organization. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.