Networks, applications and storage company Riverbed Technology has announced that its WAN optimization solution – Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS®) 5.0 – won a gold award in Storage Magazine’s 2008 Storage Products of the Year Awards, in the networking equipment category.
Judges and editors of SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine selected the 2008 winners in five storage product categories: Backup and disaster recovery software and services; Backup hardware; Disk and disk subsystems; Networking equipment; and Storage management tools.
The RiOS 5.0 technology offers customers unparalleled flexibility with their Riverbed Services Platform (RSP), which enables the delivery of branch office services without the need to deploy a full-blown server. The RSP allows cus¬tomers to deploy best-of-breed software on Steelhead appliances in a self-contained partition to minimize the hardware infrastructure footprint at the branch office. Riverbed also became the first WAN optimization vendor to provide native application-level acceleration for Exchange 2007 and to offer enhanced acceleration for frequently utilized web applications such as SAP NetWeaver, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle 11i, and SharePoint.
Says Eric Wolford, Riverbed’s senior vice president of marketing and business development: “Being recognized by Storage Magazine for the third year in a row is a testament to our continued innovation. We listen to our customers’ needs and map product development to provide solutions that address the challenges they face everyday – from application acceleration over the WAN to disaster recovery in the data center to increasing IT infrastructure performance while cutting costs.”
Riverbed also recently introduced a set of industry firsts for WAN optimization, by accelerating Lotus Notes and MAPI encrypted traffic at the application layer, as well as MAPI 2007 and Oracle Forms for mobile workers. In addition, Riverbed broadened its solutions to provide faster, more cost-effective replication and backup among data centers by automatically adjusting the optimization settings depending on the workload.
