Riverbed offers the most scalable and broadest wide-area data services (WDS)™ solution available. Whether you are looking for WAN optimization, application acceleration, Wide Area File Services (WAFS), or Wide Area Application Services (WAAS), Riverbed provides the broadest and best performing products which are also the easiest to integrate into virtually any enterprise network.
With our award-winning data reduction, WAN optimization, and application-level latency optimizations, along with remote office file and management functionality, Riverbed provides a comprehensive solution for enterprises looking to simplify IT, consolidate infrastructure, and accelerate their applications. In addition to offering the best performing solution available, Riverbed delivers the single solution that scales across the broadest range of applications and network topologies.
RiOS 5.0
The Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS™) is the software platform that powers our award-winning line of Steelhead™ appliances. Using the power of Steelhead appliances running RiOS, organizations of all sizes around the world have been able to dramatically simplify, accelerate, and consolidate their IT infrastructure. RiOS 5.0 is Riverbed’s latest optimization system software release. RiOS 5.0 extends our leadership in the WDS category by further increasing performance, scalability, and simplicity.
The latest RiOS release offers customers unparalleled flexibility for their WDS deployment. The revolutionary RiOS Services Platform (RSP) lets customers run additional services and applications on a protected partition on Steelhead appliances. This enables further branch server consolidation and simplified administration. Riverbed also becomes the first WDS vendor to accelerate Exchange 2007 with RiOS 5.0 and enhances acceleration for enterprise web applications such as SAP NetWeaver, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle 11i, and SharePoint. Hierarchical QoS gives customers more robust and granular QoS capabilities as well. Any Steelhead appliance can be upgraded to RiOS 5.0 to take advantage of these new capabilities.
RiOS for Mobile Users
With the release of Steelhead Mobile, Riverbed has enabled RiOS to scale all the way down to a single user. Unlike other vendors who have tried to cobble together a solution though different acquisitions, Riverbed has taken its proven platform and optimized it for mobile workers. Steelhead Mobile enables individual users to get the same LAN-like application performance that they have come to expect from Steelhead appliances. By utilizing the same platform as the appliances, Steelhead Mobile plugs into the existing infrastructure with little or no additional work. Steelhead Mobile uses RiOS's enhanced auto-discovery features to automatically find the Steelhead appliance in the data center which is needed to accelerate files and applications. RiOS for Steelhead Mobile has all of the key features of RiOS v5.0, although not all of the application modules are included. For more information, download the RiOS 5.0 Technical Whitepaper.
