CLOUD EDGE

Modernize Edge IT to drive digital business success

The cloud was supposed to make life easier, but it has actually introduced new levels of IT complexity, especially at the enterprise edge. These branch offices and other remote locations are critical to corporate success, but have become roadblocks to digital transformation due to limited IT expertise, islands of aging infrastructure, inefficient operations, unreliable performance, and volumes of under-protected data. Factor in the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), and these challenges will only become more pronounced, as the resulting growth in edge data will overtax legacy IT operations.

Riverbed eliminates these barriers with a Cloud Edge solution that combines cloud networking, intelligent storage caching, and high-performance compute into a single and extensible software-defined platform that dramatically reduces IT costs and complexity while delivering superior, local-like experiences for users at the edge.

  Unparalleled agility

By physically separating compute and storage, the Cloud Edge solution enables you to efficiently deploy and remotely manage the right set of apps, data, and network services to support the unique requirements of any edge location—from remote offices to IoT devices to other connected machines. All IT operations are managed from a central location to bring unprecedented levels of efficiency to your digital business.

• Deliver lightning-fast provisioning of new IT or business services, including entirely new sites
• Recover from unplanned outages in minutes, with no lost business

  Complete security

Data always needs to be at our fingertips, and for many businesses, this means storing large quantities at the edge, often outside the confines of enterprise-grade security solutions. With Riverbed’s Cloud Edge solution, there is no trade-off between application performance and data security. All infrastructure is collapsed back into the data center or cloud, securing 100% of data while retaining the ability to instantly project it back out to the edge, when and where needed.

• Centralize and protect all data in the data center or cloud while ensuring it’s still quickly accessible anywhere in the world
• Enable users with secure and optimized access to cloud-based services

  Superior performance

In the digital age, employees and customers demand highly responsive applications at all times. Riverbed’s heritage is ensuring optimal application performance, even over long distances. Our Cloud Edge solution includes integrated WAN optimization and monitoring capabilities, helping close the distance between the cloud, data center, and all edge offices.

• Ensure maximum performance for every app, at every location
• Gain end-to-end visibility into performance, on and off the cloud

  Custom-aligned to your business

Riverbed’s Cloud Edge is a modularized solution offering a number of industry-leading capabilities, allowing you to easily match your needs on a site-by-site basis. From sites leveraging Internet-only networks to connect to SaaS apps and data, to stateful sites requiring their own storage and server infrastructure, Cloud Edge is custom-aligned to every location across your distributed business.