Riverbed is announcing new versions of their Steelhead product line including Steelhead Mobile 4.0, Steelhead EX and Granite appliances, and Steelhead 5055/7055 appliances. The updates extend WAN optimization to mobile users at large scale, integrate Steelhead EX with VMware virtualization, and improve performance and scalability of the Steelhead appliances. Riverbed is also releasing an updated RiOS 8.0 operating system with enhanced security, quality of service, and management capabilities.

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Steelhead Product Launch
October 2012

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What is New?
BRANCH AND MOBILE USERS
DATA CENTERS
Steelhead Mobile 4.0
Steelhead EX and Granite
Steelhead 5055 &7055
Appliances
RiOS 8.0
Announcing Steelhead Product Family HW and SW at
Interop New York on October 3rd, 2012
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Evolving Steelhead Product Family
Industry Leading WAN Optimization Platform
Agile Service
Consolidate Scale
Delivery
Steelhead
Steelhead EX & Granite Mobile 4.0 5055/7055
Appliances
RiOS 8.0
Enabling the global enterprise to better address the
scale and consolidation needs of their data center
transformation initiatives
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Extending the Virtual Edge of the datacenter to the branch
Steelhead EX
• VMware vSphere 5.0 integrated (SW upgrade for the existing EX models)
• Central management of VMs by VMware vCenter
Granite
• Instant branch provisioning and recovery with VM boot over-the-WAN capability in a
single box
• High availability of branch storage between a pair of Steelhead EX devices (with
integrated Granite)
• Failover in the branch and datacenter through multiple paths to the backend storage
• Enhanced support of prefetch from VMFS partitioned datastore
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Scale and Optimize Mobile Users- Steelhead Mobile 4.0
Enabling large scale deployments
• Scale out to support up to 120,000 mobile users (up to 30 nodes per cluster)
• Flexible and scalable management through SMC license clustering
• High availability management through SMC failover across datacenter
Extend email optimization to mobile workers
• Optimizing Microsoft Windows environments
• Optimizing MS Outlook Clients connecting to Exchange servers over Internet
• CIFs application optimization
• Optimizing Kerberos authenticated applications
Ease of provisioning and management
• Simplified policy configuration
• Interactive graphs
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Scale the network at the speed of your business - Steelhead CX7055 and CX5055
Enabling large scale deployments
• Supports up to 1 million connections for seamless network performance scalability
and lower TCO
• Scale up to 50% more throughput and connection in a single box
Industry leading storage performance
• Unmatched performance with highest capacity SSD-based WAN Optimization
Controller
Improved price/performance
• More WAN capacity
• More connections
• Faster hardware (New SSD-based appliances, faster CPUs, more memory)
• All of these features at a better price compared to the previous generation products
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Technology enabler for Software Defined Data Centers– RiOS 8.0
Enhanced QoS and Scale
• Scale application prioritization to over 600 applications
• Extend VDI optimization with PCoIP application prioritization
• Doubling the rules/classed supported on Steelhead with higher performance DPI
Increased Security and Compliance
• New Password policy settings for administrative access
• Stronger protection against unauthorized access, ensures user accounts are not
vulnerable to being hacked
• Protects Steelhead from unauthorized Network Time servers
Improved management streamlining
• Improved interactive new reporting features
• Updated graphical time-based reports for networking, diagnostic, and optimization
reports
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