Riverbed Steelhead for global centralized datacenters
Overall Satisfaction with Riverbed Steelhead
Riverbed Steelhead is used within our organization for the global acceleration of all applications and additionally for our customers as a managed service. For this reason, we designed a product based on Riverbed and named it Managed WAN Acceleration Service. Our customers are buying that service and we keep the hardware up and running and in service.
Pros
- Remote sites to datacenters
- Performance over long distances
- Security over WAN
Cons
- Integration of public clouds with their licensing
- All hardware in one controller like Steel-Connect
- Has to be integrated into the total cost, e.g. WAN
- High costs in startup for hardware & service
- Cloud Steelhead available, too
We tested Cisco eleven years ago in parallel with Riverbed in a PoC. The Cisco configuration was very complex and sticky based on the location. The Riverbed configuration is flexible based on the whole storage. A software client for devices like laptops or tablets is not available for Cisco WAAS, therefore we selected Riverbed based on a PoC.
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