STEELHEAD CLOUD OPTIMIZATION & CLOUD ACCELERATION

Simplify Cloud Adoption and Accelerate Performance to Users Everywhere

Built for public cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware ESX-hosted clouds and vCloud Air, SteelHead CX for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds extends the #1 cloud optimization solution for the hybrid enterprise WAN to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) public clouds.

By overcoming application and network performance problems with data, application and transport streamlining, SteelHead CX speeds migration to the public IaaS cloud and accelerates access for users from virtually any location.

SteelHead CX for Cloud helps IT to embrace the flexibility, scalability and cost benefits of the cloud - while protecting and enhancing application performance.

How It Works: Accelerate Cloud Applications and Reduce Bandwidth Consumption

Compatibility with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and VMware ESX-based cloud and vCloud Air environments offers the freedom to deploy applications in nearly any cloud and move between cloud providers with ease. SteelHead cloud acceleration has helped the majority of cloud providers and has been certified for Microsoft Azure and VMware vCloud Air.

Accelerate everywhere

• Accelerates application migration and user access to the cloud
• Accelerates the delivery of enterprise data and applications in public cloud environments

Transparent cloud interception

• Simplifies the integration of optimization into the cloud’s highly automated, heavily virtualized environments where the servers’ physical locations may change at any time
• Provides automated redirection to appropriate SteelHead CX cloud instance even when server IP addresses or subnets change

SteelHead Cloud Portal

• Allows you to deploy and manage a SteelHead CX cloud instance with just a few clicks
• Offers simplified management and licensing, plus instant upgrades, of SteelHead CX

Benefits: Best-In-Class Cloud Optimization, Plus Essential Visibility and Control

SteelHead CX for Cloud speeds migration to the public cloud and accelerates access for users from virtually any location. With SteelHead CX for Cloud you can leverage cloud elastic sizing and cloning to scale as demand fluctuates. Monthly subscription terms give you the ability to cost-effectively offer the right service level based on user demand.

SteelHead CX for Cloud also improves IT visibility by seamlessly integrating with SteelCentral NetProfiler for end-to-end network monitoring and reporting and SteelCentral AppResponse for end-user experience monitoring for web and SaaS applications.

Accelerate applications and reduce bandwidth consumption

• Increases application and data transfer performance up to 100x
• Reduces bandwidth utilization by up to 95%, thus deferring costly network bandwidth upgrades

Cloud-like, cost-effective economics

• Shift from high capital expenditures to lower operational expenditures
• Manage cost and effectively offer the right service levels based on user demand with monthly subscription-based pricing models and commitments as short as six months

What Can You Save? What Can You Gain?

IDC conducted detailed interviews with nine organizations to understand the impact of optimizing the delivery of business applications with Riverbed SteelHead. 

IDC calculates that organizations will realize benefits worth an average of $27,014 per 100 users ($7.23 million per organization) per year over three years, which translates to a projected three-year return on investment (ROI) of 497%.

Read the IDC Report to learn the business value of Riverbed SteelHead

Infographic: SteelHead, the ROI Winner