From data center to cloud riverbed to accelerate the whole network

In the booming Internet today, the network data volume is increasing day by day, the network burden is increasingly heavy, many market research companies use massive data or large data age to remind the network speed is urgent. and network optimization, can for slow WAN or website link inject new vigor, can effectively alleviate network transmission "traffic jam" phenomenon, improve file transfer speed and application response speed.

Someone made an image of the metaphor, optimized network, as if take off the winter coat for summer light as lightweight.

In the area of wide area network optimization, such as cloud, there are riverbed,juniper,blue coat and expand and other influential manufacturers, however, riverbed performance has aroused particular concern in the industry. It is understood that the WAN optimization solution provided by riverbed can increase the existing bandwidth usage by five times times to 10 times times, so that the speed of application response is increased by 20 to 50 times times, which makes the enterprise's network resources more effective. It is also because of Riverbed's remarkable performance that in December 2010, Gartner released the "2010 WAN Optimization Controller Magic Quadrant" report, Riverbed was selected as the leader Quadrant.

mentioned riverbed before July 2011, and many people know it is a software vendor that specializes in providing WAN optimization controllers. But after that, you may have to see a more comprehensive riverbed. Riverbed President and chief Executive Officer Jerry Kennelly in a word, laying the future direction of Riverbed: riverbed goal is to integrate the most comprehensive and outstanding performance optimization product line to help customers solve a range of performance problems faced. ”

Integration has become the most popular word in the IT world. Originally pure software vendors to acquire hardware manufacturers to achieve soft and hard integration, for example, Oracle acquisition of Sun, the original hardware company acquisition of software companies, such as Intel acquisition of McAfee, the original manufacturer of a single product line, the gradual acquisition of the business from the data center to the terminal equipment, Riverbed is an example.

Riverbed in July 2011 after the acquisition of Zeus and aptimize two companies, after several months of efforts, riverbed integration of the two manufacturers of the advantages of products, a few days ago officially launched a new product series Stingray. The Stingray series includes Stingray traffic manager (Stingray traffic manager), Stingray Web creator Fire

Wall (Stingray Web application firewall) and Stingray Aptimizer (WOC). The launch of this series of products has further expanded the company's award-winning WAN optimization, application-aware network performance management (NPM), and cloud storage Gateway Solutions portfolio.

It is understood that Zeus was originally a private company offering software-based high-performance load balancing and traffic management solutions for virtualization and cloud environments. Zeus pioneered a highly scalable application Delivery Controller (ADC) based on software, while Zeus Virtual ADC (VADC) can support virtual platforms such as VMware, Xen, Hyperv, and KVM. This time, riverbed company launched the Stingray product line Flow Manager Traffic Manager is the derivative of this product.

To meet the needs of SMEs in the future, traffic manager also offers a new ordering model that allows businesses to quickly and flexibly accelerate and optimize their applications in the cloud without requiring long-term capital investment. The starting price of the monthly subscription model is less than 200 dollars, which is in line with the trend of customer demand changing from capex to opex.

The stingray Aptimizer from the Stingray product line is also the core product of Aptimize company. Aptimize is a private company with a leading position in the website content optimization market. Aptimize's website accelerator eliminates the pervasive inefficiencies of modern web applications by effectively and in real time transforming content in Web pages (such as JavaScript, cascading style sheets, images, etc.).

Reporter to riverbed greater China product Marketing Director Ding Detailed understanding of this product operation steps. Ding said that today's web site structure is very complex, a lot of data sources, then aptimize by installing a software on a local Web server to collect data on the site, without installing additional hardware, or changing the code or browser. When the first user visits, the software can be transferred from the local data, rather than temporarily from the local database to read data, this approach can significantly improve the speed of Web page reading, the site's readers to provide a better experience.

At the same time, riverbed in the Stingray new product series launched the Web application firewall, highlighting its cloud computing environment for the network security considerations. The purpose of this Web application firewall is to ensure the security of Web applications, protect them from various threats, and thus help enterprises meet various security compliance requirements, including the payment card Industry Data Security Standard (DSS).

As you can see, riverbed's attention has gone from the data center to the cloud, and it wants to make it possible for each employee, customer, partner, and end user to provide an optimal experience similar to the local application, thereby increasing the productivity of the organization, further reducing the enterprise data center, The cost of the cloud and branch office IT infrastructure. And this is becoming the future direction of riverbed development.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)