Riverbed Data Express Service: The New Standard in High-Speed, Secure Data Movement
- By Chalan Aras
- 15-Oct-2025
In today’s digital enterprise, data is the fuel—and moving it efficiently is mission-critical. Whether you’re training AI models, migrating workloads, or enabling hybrid cloud strategies, the ability to move massive datasets quickly, securely, and cost-effectively can make or break your business outcomes.
That’s where Riverbed Data Express Service comes in.
The Business Challenge: Data Gravity Meets Cloud Complexity
As a business executive, you’re navigating a world where your enterprise data is sprawled across clouds, regions, and on-premise environments. AI and analytics workloads are growing exponentially, and every delay in data movement means idle GPUs, missed insights, wasted spend, and ultimately failed business initiatives.
You need a solution that’s:
- Fast to keep up with AI-scale data demands
- Simple to deploy without friction
- Secure to meet enterprise compliance
- Insightful to give you control and visibility
Riverbed Data Express Service delivers on all four.
1. Fast: Move Petabytes Per Day—Literally
Data Express Service is engineered for speed, offering transfer rates from 5TB to 40TB per hour—that’s up to 1PB per day. With support for concurrent transfers and continuous sync, you can scale to meet even the most demanding AI or cloud migration workloads.
Compared to alternative available solutions, Data Express Service delivers nearly 10x the performance at peak.
2. Easy: SaaS Simplicity and Better Economics
Forget complex configurations or hidden costs. Data Express Service is a fully managed SaaS platform—no VMs to deploy or manage, no tuning required. The power of Riverbed SteelHeads are under the cover, ready to move petabytes of data. You pay only for what you move, with a consumption-based pricing model that aligns with your cloud economics. For many data types, the service can reduce cloud egress costs up to 90%, reducing overall cost of data migration.
Setup takes minutes via a simple user interface and integration is seamless via REST APIs. It works across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure today, with planned services for multi-cloud (AWS, OCI, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and data center connectivity.
3. Secure: Built for Enterprise-Grade Protection
Security is non-negotiable. Data Express Service is multi-tenant by design, with RBAC, SSO/IAM, and tenant isolation at both the control and data layers. Data in transit is protected with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) secure tunnels.
You can even deploy agents inside your own cloud or data center fabric to apply your existing security policies.
4. Insightful: Real-Time Visibility and Governance
From day one, you get deep visibility into job status, throughput, file counts, and history—all through a unified portal. Over time, Riverbed is adding outcome-oriented insights like time saved, top data movers, and trend analysis.
Advanced analytics and alerting integrate with your workflows, giving you the observability and governance you need to stay in control.
Use Cases That Matter to CIOs
Riverbed Data Express Service is purpose-built for the modern CIO agenda:
- AI/ML Training and Inference: Feed GPU clusters faster to avoid idle compute.
- Cloud-to-Cloud Transfers: Support multi-cloud strategies with ease.
- Data Center to Cloud Migrations: Modernize apps and analytics.
- Disaster Recovery: Replicate data securely and quickly.
- Edge-to-Core Consolidation: Centralize IoT and remote data.
Whether you’re in financial services, healthcare, media, or manufacturing, Data Express Service adapts to your enterprise needs.
Why Now?
The Riverbed Data Express Service is currently in limited availability, with general availability coming soon. If you’re a CIO looking to future-proof your data infrastructure, now is the time to engage.
You can subscribe via Riverbed sales or partners, with options for pay-as-you-go or enterprise subscriptions. Training and onboarding are available through Riverbed Academy.
Final Thought: Data Movement Is Now a Strategic Priority
In the AI era, data movement is no longer a backend task—it’s a strategic enabler. Riverbed Data Express Service gives CIOs the speed, simplicity, security, and insights needed to lead in a data-driven world.
Ready to move at the speed of innovation? Contact your Riverbed representative to learn more or request early access.