Whitewater Cloud Storage Gateway

Riverbed^® Whitewater^® cloud storage gateways allow organizations to:

• Reduce costs by 30 percent to 50 percent over tape and disk-based architectures
• Replace over a petabyte of tape with a single appliance
• Improve DR readiness with secure, off-site cloud storage
• Eliminate tape and tape system management burdens
• Instantly leverage the flexibility and scalability of cloud infrastructure

Eliminate dependence on unreliable, error-prone tape systems for backup and DR Eliminate tape and enjoy the benefits of cloud backup with a Whitewater cloud storage gateway. Whitewater replicates data automatically to the public cloud, eliminating costly off-site tape vaulting and improving disaster recovery (DR) capabilities.

Significantly reduced business risk and improve DR readiness

Whitewater cloud storage gateways and public cloud storage provides secure, off-site storage with restore anywhere capability for superior disaster recovery. Data can be recovered by Whitewater from any location to provide the ultimate DR flexibility. Public cloud storage offers excellent DR capabilities without the high costs associated with remote DR sites or colocation service providers. With the public cloud and Whitewater cloud storage gateways – any size organization can significantly reduce its business risk from unplanned outages without the large capital investments and running costs required by competing solutions.

Reduce costs by 30 to 50 percent

Whitewater cloud storage gateways allow companies to reduce costs by 30 to 50 percent over existing tape and disk-to-disk replication systems.

• Riverbed’s industry leading, byte-level deduplication shrinks the storage required by 10-30 times, which substantially reduces cloud storage fees.
• Whitewater’s real-time replication to cloud storage eliminates the need for tape vaulting services and speeds the creation of a secure copy of the data in off-site storage.
• By leveraging a Whitewater gateway as a storage target for the existing data protection application, substantial amounts of on-premise disk storage can be reclaimed for other tasks, eliminating the need for capital expenditures.
• Leveraging Whitewater’s deduplication and compression, a single Whitewater appliance can replace over a petabyte of tape.
• Whitewater brings inexpensive, scalable, pay-as-you-grow cloud storage into the company as a low-cost storage tier. With Whitewater old, seldom-accessed data can be moved to the cloud, freeing up expensive disk arrays for other workloads.
• By eliminating tape and disk-based systems, Whitewater gateways significantly reduce the administration required for media management, capacity planning, and system management, freeing up valuable IT resources for high value projects.

Reduce security risks for off-site data

Mitigate security risks with the strong encryption of data onsite, in transit, and at rest in the cloud. Data is secured by AES 256-bit encryption as the data stream is processed by the Whitewater cloud storage acceleration appliance, and by SSL v3 during transmission to and from the cloud. Thus the data is secured end to end through the storage and retrieval process.

Replace over a petabyte of tape with a single appliance

Most organizations run full backups weekly, and incrementals each day to protect their data. Unfortunately the majority of what is written to tape each week is nearly the same as the week before. The net result is that the average company writes over 50 copies of the same file each year to tape. Whitewater gateways leverage Riverbed’s byte-level deduplication technology to eliminate duplicate segments of data at a granular level that eliminates duplicate segments yet keeps the data safe and secure. When this deduplication is teamed with Riverbed’s compression and optimization technologies, organizations can easily store the same amount of data that was previously stored on hundreds of tapes within a single Whitewater gateway appliance.

Improve remote office data protection

Many organizations struggle with data protection within their remote offices due to a lack of skilled administrators and the expense of off-site vaulting or replication. Organizations often try to centralize the data but soon find that replicating large backup data sets create a significant impact to the network and additional storage requirements in the data center. Whitewater gateways allow remote offices to easily implement cloud backup without requiring additional storage, impact to the company network, or involvement from branch office personnel.

Industry recognized support

Technical support consistently rates in the top three evaluation criteria for major IT purchase decisions, closely behind product features/functionality and performance. This is not surprising, considering the increasing strategic importance of the IT infrastructure, and the potential impact to an organization when it is disrupted or not performing optimally.

In April of 2011, Riverbed achieved global certification under the J.D. Power and Associates Certified Technology Service and Support ProgramSM, which recognized Riverbed for delivering “An Outstanding Customer Service Experience” and also TSIA Excellence in Service Operations. Riverbed is one of a select few companies to receive this distinction for global certification under both the J.D. Power and Associates CTSS and the TSIA Excellence in Service Operations program in the same year.

With support centers located in Amsterdam, London, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Sunnyvale, Sydney, and Tokyo, Riverbed’s “follow-the-sun” system enables the transfer of high-priority cases around the world and provides continuous, industry-recognized support to all customers.

Byte-level deduplication

Leveraging Riverbed's industry-leading, in-line deduplication and compression, Whitewater gateways reduce cloud storage requirements by 10-30 times on average. Byte-level deduplication uses smaller segments, finds more duplication, and thus reduces data sets more than competitive methods. This results in lower cloud storage fees and faster transmission.

WAN optimization technologies

Whitewater leverages Riverbed’s industry leading WAN optimization technologies to speed the replication of backup data sets to and from the cloud. With Riverbed’s byte-level deduplication, compression, and advanced TCP stack, Whitewater gateways optimize data and transmit in multiple, parallel streams to maximize the available bandwidth for outstanding throughput.

Real-time replication

Whitewater gateways deduplicate, compress, encrypt, and cache the backup data stream locally, as well as accelerate the replication of the secure data set to the public cloud. This real-time replication transmits data quickly so that all backup data is safely stored in the cloud as quickly as possible and ensures synchronization between the cloud and locally cached data set.

Strong 256-bit encryption and secure transmission

Whitewater secures data in-flight using SSL v3, and at rest using 256-bit AES encryption. This dual-level security ensures that any data transmitted is not compromised and creates end-to-end security. Whitewater leverages an innovative key management system that allows organizations to carefully manage data security and offers the flexibility to restore data to any location. Encryption keys are kept safe by the IT administrator.

Local optimized disk cache

Whitewater gateways provide a local optimized disk cache of data that ensures LAN-speed transfers to and from the device. Whitewater keeps the most recent, and most-often-accessed data in deduplicated and compressed format within the cache to greatly increase the amount of data stored locally to speed recoveries. If data needing restoration is no longer completely in its local cache, the Whitewater gateway will supplement in-cache data with data from cloud storage.

Drop-in installation

Whitewater gateways install quickly and easily, requiring only a simple change of the backup target in the backup application. As Whitewater gateways appear to the backup application as a CIFS share or NFS export, the change required is minimal. Whitewater manages the deduplication, compression, encryption, and replication of the data stream to the local cache and cloud storage as well as quickly providing the data requested to the backup application when a restore is required.

Broadest cloud backup ecosystem in the industry

Whitewater cloud storage gateways provide the flexibility to work with all major cloud storage providers and data protection applications. Unlike alternatives that require a specific backup tool and/or cloud provider, Whitewater acts as a broker that seamlessly connects all leading data protection applications to all leading cloud providers. Whitewater eliminates vendor lock-in and provides the ability to act quickly should requirements change.

Whitewater cloud storage gateways are available in four models, as either virtual or physical appliances, to meet a wide range of needs.

Whitewater 110

The Whitewater 110 is a virtual appliance that runs on the VMware ESX/ESXi server. The Whitewater 110 provides up to 2TB of local cache and can protect up to 5TB of source data. The Whitewater 110 can ingest data at up to 250GB per hour, and is the perfect choice for smaller data sets and remote offices. As the Whitewater 110 can quickly be downloaded and booted on any ESX/ESXi host, it offers strong disaster recovery capabilities should the unexpected occur.

Whitewater 510

The Whitewater 510 is the entry-level physical gateway appliance. The Whitewater 510 offers 2TBs of local cache and can protect up to 5TB of source data. The Whitewater 510 can ingest data at up to 400GB per hour, and is the perfect choice for smaller organizations with tight backup windows. The Whitewater 510 can replace over 250TB of tape in a single appliance.

Whitewater 710

The Whitewater 710 is the popular choice for the small- to medium-sized business (SMB). The Whitewater 710 includes 4TB of local cache and can protect up to 10TB of source data. The Whitewater 710 can process data at up to 600GB per hour and is the perfect choice for SMB organizations with demanding requirements. Over 500TB of tape can be stored within a single Whitewater 710 appliance.

Whitewater 2010

The Whitewater 2010 is aimed at large SMB organizations with demanding service levels. The Whitewater 2010 provides 8TB of local cache and can protect up to 20TB of source data. With 12 processing cores, the Whitewater 2010 quickly processes backup data at up to 1TB per hour and is the perfect choice for SMB organizations with large data sets. The Whitewater 2010 can replace over a petabyte of tape in a single appliance.

Best Practices

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Deployment Guides & Resources

Solution Briefs

Amazon Web Service S3

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AT&T’s Synaptic Storage as a Service

AT&T and Riverbed have expanded their relationship to provide customers with a simple, efficient way to back up data offsite to cloud storage environments. AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service (SaaS), based on the EMC ATMOS storage platform, is a web services-based storage solution that easily scales up and allows customers to pay only for the storage used. It provides elastic capacity on demand with no commitments, minimums, or limits and allows access to stored data anywhere and anytime. Coupled with Riverbed Whitewater, a cloud storage accelerator, AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service customers can backup data to the cloud faster. Offering improved operational efficiency and reduced cost and complexity, Synaptic receives deduplication data from Whitewater appliance via REST. AT&T also resells and has managed WAN optimization services for customers designed around Riverbed Steelhead appliances.

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CA ARCserve

CA ARCserve r16 provides comprehensive hybrid data protection for heterogeneous environments, which may include a mixture of local and remote Unix, Linux, and Windows servers as well as Windows desktops and laptops. CA ARCserve r16 is designed and optimized to take advantage of virtualized environments as well as targeted cloud-based storage. Together CA ARCserve and Riverbed’s Whitewater cloud storage gateway appliance provide users with a flexible, easy-to-configure and use solution that can be deployed with major cloud storage providers, such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon S3. Enjoy confidence that your systems, applications, and data are securely protected and easily recoverable.

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CommVault

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EMC Atmos-based clouds

Riverbed WAN optimization solutions enable EMC customers of all sizes to overcome a wide range of IT infrastructure performance bottlenecks, including poor application performance, and slow replication and backup, often due to insufficient bandwidth and high latency on the network. So that joint customers can deploy Riverbed WAN optimization solutions into their largest data centers with confidence, Riverbed Steelhead appliances have obtained EMC E-Lab qualification for SRDF, RecoverPoint, MirrorView, Celerra Replicator, and SAN Copy. Riverbed has also partnered with EMC's Atmos unit to deliver a powerful, cloud-optimized storage acceleration platform that enables fast, reliable, and simple access to private and public clouds. Riverbed is a member of the EMC Select Program, which enables EMC and its channel to resell Steelhead appliances. Read our joint customer case studies on 360 Architecture.

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HP Cloud Services

HP Cloud Services is providing public cloud infrastructure services for organizations of all sizes. Designed with OpenStack™ technology at the core, HP's open, transparent architecture ensures no vendor lock-in, improves developer productivity, features easy-to-use tools for faster time to code, provides access to a rich partner ecosystem, and is backed by exceptional customer support. HP's initial offering includes on-demand compute instances or virtual machines, scalable online storage capacity and accelerated delivery of cached content to end users. HP's full suite of public cloud services will enable the next generation of web services to be built, run and scale on a global basis backed with a broad marketplace of analytics, tools and services. HP's cloud supports customers with a differentiated hybrid delivery model, providing interoperability and portability across public, private and managed clouds. For additional information visit hpcloud.com.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager family offers smarter data recovery management solutions that effectively address two of the most pressing challenges in IT - exploding data growth, and the futile nature of managing complex, heterogeneous storage environments. Tivoli Storage Manager is meeting the data protection and recovery challenges of today and tomorrow with best-in-class scalability, performance, reliability and functionality. Our three key areas of design focus are: simplified, unified recovery management; extreme data reduction; and advanced solutions for virtual and cloud infrastructures. Extending Tivoli Storage Manager to cloud services and remote offices are the basis for our partnership with Riverbed.

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Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network

Nirvanix is the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud storage services. The company offers cloud storage services designed specifically for customers with expectations of extreme security, reliability and redundancy levels. Under its CloudComplete™ portfolio, Nirvanix is the only company that provides public, hybrid and private cloud deployment options. The company’s battle-hardened, proven second generation Cloud Storage Network™ is fully integrated with Riverbed® Whitewater™ storage acceleration appliances. Together they significantly reduce costs through an elastic pay-as-you-go storage pool for backups and archives and the elimination of expensive remote disaster recovery hardware. Nirvanix has over 1,200 global customers accessing its Cloud Storage Network, from SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.

Nirvanix Solution Brief

Quest Software

Quest® Software (Nasdaq: QSFT) simplifies and reduces the cost of data protection for over 45,000 customers worldwide. Quest data protection products protect virtual, physical, and application environments with leading solutions including Quest vRanger, the # 1 data protection solution for virtual infrastructure. Quest vRanger offers full VMware ESX and ESXi support and provides a wide range of backup, recovery, and replication capabilities in addition to unique patented Active Block Management (ABM) and CBT for powerful data compression. In addition, vRanger provides VMware Hot Add support for faster ESXi network backups, and best-in-class vCenter integration that offers security compliance with granular ESXi service lock-down, no root logins, and is certified VMware Ready for vSphere 5.

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Rackspace

Rackspace Hosting is the service leader in cloud computing, and a founder of OpenStack, an open source cloud operating system. The global company headquartered in San Antonio, TX provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. Rackspace has been recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and was featured on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. The company was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the “2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting.”

Rackspace Solution Brief

Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help our customers - from consumers and small businesses to the largest global organizations - secure and manage their information against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently than any other company. Our company's unique focus is to eliminate risks to information, technology and processes independent of the device, platform, interaction or location. With Symantec, customers can protect more of their information and its technology infrastructure, in greater depth, wherever information is stored or used. From securing a consumer's online identity and interactions to protecting an organization's mission-critical data, Symantec offers the leading and best-of-breed security, backup and recovery, data availability and data loss prevention products.

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Veeam

Veeam Software, an Elite VMware Technology Alliance partner, develops innovative products for virtual infrastructure management and data protection. Customers can reduce costs, minimize risks and fully realize the promise of virtualization with Veeam. Veeam Backup & Replication with vPower provides advanced Virtualization-Powered Data Protection and is the #1 VM backup solution. Veeam is rapidly expanding its presence and its partner network around the world and will continue to offer innovative and practical solutions to help IT professionals better manage their virtual infrastructure. Today the company focuses on managing VMware, and has announced support for Microsoft Hyper-V.

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Windows Azure

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