Provides customers with flexible subscription-based pricing and
in-field upgrade options to “future-proof” their networks and meet
specific business needs
Delivers major routing enhancements for complex and
highly-available enterprise networks
Riverbed SD-WAN solution available as a virtual appliance or a
comprehensive WAN Edge solution with SD-WAN, application acceleration,
visibility and security in a single device
SAN FRANCISCO (BUSINESS WIRE) Riverbed, The Digital Performance Company, today announced significant
enhancements and new subscription pricing for its industry leading
SD-WAN solution, which is now used by more than 1,000 customers
worldwide. With this latest release, Riverbed is delivering the most
powerful and complete WAN Edge solution in the market, integrating
advanced SD-WAN functionality with industry-leading application
acceleration, security and visibility capabilities all in a single
streamlined device. Riverbed’s comprehensive solution enables businesses
to experience fast, agile and secure access to all applications across
the hybrid IT landscape with greater efficiency and reliability. Today’s
announcement is the next major step for Riverbed in delivering a
next-gen infrastructure that is software-defined and empowers customers
everywhere to take full advantage of the cloud and to maximize digital
performance.
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“Attune Hearing operates in a highly competitive industry our ability
to innovate quickly and deliver amazing experiences for customers and
staff is critical for our business, and Riverbed’s next-gen
infrastructure solution is the powerhouse enabling us to do it,” said
Jamie DeLacey, Head of ICT at Attune Hearing. “By combining SD-WAN,
application acceleration and visibility capabilities into a single
device, we’ve been able to dramatically simplify operations and
eliminate the need for branch routers all together. The visibility we’re
getting withRiverbed has also been a game-changer. We are able to
understand performance see clearly into how users are actually
experiencing apps and services and diagnose and resolve issues and
improve service levels for our staff and customers without needing to
fly around the country.”
“Organizations across every industry are striving to digitally transform
their business in order to stay competitive. Consequently, limitations
of legacy networks have become roadblocks to truly fulfilling these
digital strategies,” said Paul O’Farrell, Senior Vice President and
General Manager of Riverbed’s Cloud Infrastructure Business Unit. “By
delivering a next-gen architecture with new flexible subscription
pricing and enhanced routing capabilities, Riverbed has raised the bar
in helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation
initiatives and implement a software-defined networking approach for
increased agility, greater efficiency and ultimately, better financial
results. And now with 1,000 SD-WAN customers worldwide, Riverbed has
established itself as a true leader in the SD-WAN market.”
With this significant release, Riverbed’s SD-WAN solution delivers the
following enhancements:
Enterprise-class routing: Major enhancements to the corerouting stack enables support for large and complex enterprise
networks where high-availability and advanced interoperability between
SD-WAN and legacy networks is crucial. Subscription-based pricing: Riverbed is introducing disruptive
OpEx friendly, subscription-based pricing for SD-WAN-only and SD-WAN +
WAN Optimization customers. Now customers have added flexibility with
a fit-for-purpose and future-proofed solution at every branch location
to meet their specific needs. In-field upgrades: Existing customers have access to an
enhanced in-field upgrade to expand the capabilities of prior
investments to include advanced SD-WAN, network security services and
industry-leading WAN Optimization. Simple and complete integration: Comprehensive WAN Edge
solution combines SD-WAN, application acceleration, visibility and
security capabilities into a single device.
Riverbed offers the only WAN Edge solution in the market that provides
unified connectivity and policy-based orchestration spanning the entire
distributed network SD-WAN, SD-LAN, data centers and both public and
private clouds, with easy-to-use, one-click automated connectivity into
Microsoft Azure and AWS. Riverbed SD-WAN provides customers with the
flexibility to steer traffic to any network or point of presence (PoP)
of their choice. The solution also enables zero-touch provisioning,
allowing an enterprise to set-up a global network and connect to the
cloud in minutes. Simplified ongoing network management provides the
ability to make network or business/application policy changes with just
a few clicks. Additionally, Riverbed’s SD-WAN solution natively and
seamlessly integrates with third party network security vendors,
including the Zscaler cloud security platform to dramatically streamline
networking and security, providing the level of agility required for the
modern enterprise.
“In a recent spending intentions survey, 1 ESG found that 68%
of responding IT organizations reported having a more complex IT
environment driven by many factors higher numbers of remote and mobile
users, increase in the number and types of applications accessed and the
need to connect to both on-premises and public cloud data centers. This
increased complexity makes it difficult for digitally-driven
organizations to maintain their business agility, and they need to
ensure that they are supporting business demands with a modern network
infrastructure to enable secure application delivery,” said Alex
Arcilla, Validation Analyst, at Enterprise Strategy Group. “The latest
SD-WAN release from Riverbed seamlessly addresses these issues of
network complexity, delivering both advanced SD-WAN and enterprise-class
routing capabilities. This allows organizations to easily define and
implement policies as well as automate connectivity across their entire
network in order to maximize network agility from the data center to the
edge to the cloud.”
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