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Riverbed SteelFusion Supports Microsoft Azure, AWS Backup

March 09, 2016

By David Delony, Contributing Writer

Application performance infrastructure company Riverbed Technology has announced support for Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (News - Alert).




Customers of both major cloud providers will have the ability to use them for secondary backup storage, which will come especially handy for those who have deployed SD-WAN.

“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 (News - Alert) Azure or Amazon Web Services,” Paul O’Farrell, senior vice president and general manager of SteelHead, SteelFusion and SD-WAN solutions at Riverbed (News - Alert). “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.”

SteelFusion will be available to Azure customers through Microsoft’s StorSimple and Amazon customers through AWS Storage Gateway (News - Alert).

The support for backing up to the cloud dovetails with SteelFusion’s goal of making sure applications perform well regardless of where they’re physically hosted. The company deals with applications hosted at remote locations through SD-WAN. As more businesses move into the cloud, high availability and reliability have never been more important.

Cloud storage solutions offer offsite backup essentially for free in terms of effort, so integrating it into cloud applications is really a no-brainer and aligns with the goal of providing reliability for hybrid cloud and on-premises applications for Remote and Branch Offices (ROBOs).

“Through SteelFusion, branches can be spun up, spun down, moved, backed-up, and restored amazingly fast all from the central data center, and now conveniently in the cloud, without requiring assistance from operational staff in the branch,” Colm Keegan, senior cloud analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group (News - Alert), said “SteelFusion helps businesses meet the variable application performance requirements of their ROBO locations while reducing complexity and mitigating risk.




Edited by Maurice Nagle

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