This specially designed all-in-one box combines virtualization and WAN optimization to get branch offices and all their applications up and running at business-ready speeds. Riverbed Steelhead® EX appliances are built on VMware so you can run virtualized instances of your own services. It’s a great solution for consolidating your sprawling IT infrastructure. Add storage consolidation with Riverbed Granite® appliance upgrade.
With the flexibility of a VMware hypervisor and Riverbed WAN optimization, you can deploy all your business services at lower costs and faster speeds.
Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS®) — the Steelhead EX appliance operating system — combines data reduction, TCP and UDP optimization, and application-level protocol optimization to deliver the highest performing and most scalable WAN optimization solution available.
Riverbed Virtual Services Platform (VSP) built with VMware vSphere offers plenty of memory and disk space to run virtual machines with all your services.
Riverbed optimizes the widest range of enterprise applications.
Steelhead EX appliances optimize the widest range of enterprise applications.
Steelhead EX appliances streamline branch office operations, help cut costs, simplify management, and enable a more agile service delivery.
Run virtually any local service or application across a series of virtual machines on this VMware-based platform.
Accelerate applications up to 100 times faster while reducing bandwidth demands from 60 to 99% — these appliances bring the full power of Riverbed WAN optimization techniques.
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“With Riverbed, our return on investment was approximately 18 months, including maintenance fees. Even with telecom prices coming down, it still makes sense to use WAN optimization technology.”
- Frank Milano, CIO, Terracon
Back to TopAmazingly, Riverbed Granite® technology lets you remove data from your branch offices to your data center. Branch end users, however, continue to access that data as if it where local—even during WAN outages. This simple, yet remarkable, add-on to Steelhead EX WAN optimization truly makes the virtual branch office in a box a reality.
Riverbed Services Platform and Virtual Services Platform (RSP/VSP)
Every Steelhead EX appliance comes equipped with the Riverbed Virtual Services Platform (VSP), powered by h VMware vSphere virtualization technology. VSP eliminates the need for dedicated servers in the branch office. That saves you money, and puts you in full control.
The Riverbed® Virtual Service platform (VSP), simplifies the management of distributed infrastructure even further by consolidating services onto a VMware platform on a Steelhead® EX series appliance.VSP eliminates the need for dedicated servers in the branch office. Every Steelhead EX appliance is outfitted with VMware vSphere virtualization technology. And thanks to a protected partition on your Steelhead EX appliance, you can easily run all of your branch office services virtually. You will quickly reduce expensive branch office hardware by consolidating back to the data center. All of the benefits of virtualization and more are possible with VSP:
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Steelhead EX + Granite appliances are available in a range of models to suit the needs of any office. Granite requires two components: Granite Edge, an in-built service running on a Steelhead EX + Granite appliance in the branch office, and Granite Core, a physical or virtual appliance deployed alongside the Steelhead appliance and storage arrays in the data center.
Need help choosing the Steelhead product that’s right for your organization? Download the specification sheet to learn more about the technical characteristics and requirements of each model.
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