SteelHead EX

SteelHead EX Consolidate your branch server infrastructure while accelerating your data and applications with #1 virtualization solution for hybrid networks What is virtualization for branch offices across hybrid networks?

"With [SteelHead EX], we have shown that our branch operations can have the same level of network and application performance as in our main offices."

With increasing pressure to do more with fewer resources in branch offices, IT is increasingly centralizing and virtualizing branch office servers to reduce costs and streamline management.

Services such as DNS, DHCP, and print services continue to remain in the branch on dedicated, remote servers. This limitation increases management complexity, as well as the operational and capital costs of running a branch office. With SteelHead EX, you can virtually run network and application services in any branch office. Every SteelHead EX solution features the Riverbed Virtual Services Platform (VSP), a dedicated platform with VMware® vSphere™ virtualization services that can be run virtually in any branch office to enable consolidation.

Reduce costs by consolidating and virtualizing branch servers

“The ability to deploy multiple servers on one box in the country branch offices and manage them all remotely from our datacenter in the U.S. is invaluable to the success of our IT program and to the overall success of our programs implemented worldwide.”

-Wes Durrett, Senior IT Operations Manager, Room to Read

Deploying SteelHead EX, you can run edge services virtually in all of your branch offices — without having to deploy and manage standalone servers.

SteelHead EX provides:

• Increases application and data transfer performance up to 100x
• Eliminates the need to purchase, maintain, and protect stand-alone servers in branch offices
• Dynamically selects the best application path possibilities based on application-aware, business intent-based policiesand network availability
• Reduces IT infrastructure complexity and simplifies management by combining services onto a high-performance branch-office solution
• Ensures business continuity and rapid recovery from disasters or interruptions
• Reduces bandwidth utilization by up to 95%, thus deferring costly network bandwidth upgrades

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