Riverbed released cloud computing virtualization Steelhead Series

Wan Optimizer riverbed recently released a virtualization Steelhead series for cloud computing and a way to accelerate iSCSI data interchange. Riverbed's steelhead is a physical device deployed to the outbound/inbound port in the data center to speed up wide area network (WAN) traffic in the data center. It can work with steelhead deployed on the other end of the network to reduce the inefficiency of network operations and data redundancy. The virtual Steelhead series device is software that can run on the portal server of a public cloud service.

The Riverbed technology company (NASDAQ Stock Exchange Code: RVBD), which aims to improve the performance of the network, applications, and storage it architectures, has announced that it will launch a mobile WAN optimization solution enhancements to address the productivity problems faced by global companies in managing remote and mobile employees. Whether employees travel, work from home, or use wireless networks in their offices, riverbed Steelhead Mobile can improve employee productivity by improving application. Mobile 3.0,riverbed also dramatically increases the speed of Windows 7 and 64-bit systems. In addition, no matter where employees are located anywhere in the world, enterprise users will be able to leverage the software's enhanced flexibility and simplified management capabilities to provide mobile employees with high-speed application performance.
　　
Eric Wolford, senior vice president of riverbed Marketing and business development, said: "As companies consolidate data through private clouds, the distance between their employees and key data centers is widening." Staff mobility is also increasing, and they often need to work in various places outside the office. This means that remote access becomes increasingly difficult as data and it architectures become more concentrated. With the help of Steelhead Mobile 3.0, we can not only accelerate the application of Windows system for mobile employees, but also further expand the application of Steelhead devices in the enterprise. ”

Physical steelheads can be deployed in the enterprise's own data centers, but businesses using public cloud computing cannot be deployed on the portal of Public cloud computing. But now they can deploy a virtual steelhead on a server that uses public cloud computing, and use it to send and receive steelhead optimized data network traffic and its resources stored on the public cloud.

Riverbed installed virtual steelhead devices on Amazon's public AWS.

Riverbed said that it already has more technology to speed up the iSCSI WAN block-level storage data interchange, which it calls "the technology to deal with the inefficient part of the basic block protocol, and improve the performance level under the WAN." Running any block-level protocol on a wide area network was previously considered impossible, and our technology proved it possible. "

"This innovation enables storage and computing resources that are thousands of miles away to be able to experience San attractiveness in a WAN environment." "

The principle of this technique is that it reduces the number of iSCSI traffic required to be sent by the network exchange, and cuts the number of queries, sending and confirming. Based on Ethernet and TCP/IP protocol, it is a development of existing Steelhead WAN optimization technology.

Riverbed's top and storage analysts are optimistic about virtual steelhead devices. Eric Wolford, senior vice president of marketing and business development at Riverbed, said: "Storage and local servers don't have to be chained together." This allows IT management to locate and move storage anywhere in the world, or even thousands of of miles away, to provide customers with the most cost-effective and intelligent structures. "

"This feature allows businesses to build a bridge between the public cloud and the private cloud, giving them a way to get the most out of both worlds." "

He is sure to be optimistic about his products. But GARTNER,ESG and Yankee, the three analysis agencies, also hold the same attitude. "High latency will limit the types of cloud computing applications," says ESG Steve Duplessie. This forces new interfaces or rewrite applications to take advantage of the cloud, which will be a new market opportunity. "

"If riverbed can solve the data transfer problem for applications and WANs, they will open up the entire market." If I treat cloud computing like a disk drive, the possibility is really limitless. "

But there is no timetable for such transcendence. At present, the manufacturer has not yet launched an accelerated product in public, and the technology must prove itself before it is applied to key iSCSI swaps.