Riverbed Technology has added support for Microsoft Azure through Microsoft StorSimple and Amazon Web Services through AWS Storage Gateway to its SteelFusion hyper-converged edge solution. The addition of Azure and AWS provides customers with more flexibility and choice for cloud-based data storage across remote locations and enables them to leverage the cloud as a secondary storage tier for added capacity, backup, or for tiering in conjunction with private data center storage assets.
“We are excited to give our SteelFusion customers more options and flexibility with the ability to store their remote data in the cloud, whether it be with Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services,” says Paul O’Farrell, senior vice president and general manager of SteelHead, SteelFusion and SD-WAN solutions at Riverbed. “Many of today’s enterprises are already using a hybrid IT model, with data both in the cloud and data center. Now with access to cloud-based storage and backup capabilities with SteelFusion, our customers can easily leverage the cloud as a secondary storage tier without any impact to users at the edge.”
Combining virtualization, intelligent storage delivery, and WAN optimization, SteelFusion hyper-converged infrastructure solution is designed for the unique challenges of remote and branch office (ROBO) IT. The solution:
- Removes all physical servers, storage, and valuable data from ROBO locations.
- Consolidates remote and branch office IT operations, such as backup processes and data protection, provisioning of new services and sites, and fast recovery to central data centers.
- Extends business-class security, services, and resiliency of the central data center, and now the cloud, out to all ROBO locations, regardless of distance, and without compromising performance.
To learn more, visit http://www.riverbed.com/products/steelfusion.html.
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