Riverbed

Now available on Nutanix’s AHV platform, Riverbed® SteelHead™ is the industry-leading network optimization and application acceleration solution chosen by over 30,000 organizations worldwide. SteelHead dramatically speeds up the performance of applications anywhere in the organization while delivering the best end-user experience even under sub-optimal network conditions.

Key Benefits

Accelerated Application Performance and Reduced Bandwidth Consumption

• Reduces bandwidth utilization by up to 95%, deferring costly network bandwidth upgrades
• Increases performance by up to 100x for on-premises applications
• Leverages application awareness to distinguish between business and non-critical network  traffic to select optimal acceleration path
  
• Enables rapid, resilient, and secure replication and backup over the WAN
  

Integrated Visibility

• SteelHead can send Riverbed® SteelFlow, enriched flow data to Riverbed®  NetProfiler for analysis of:
  • Optimized network performance
  • WAN optimization reporting (i.e., bandwidth reduction)
  • SteelHead QoS configuration and usage
• Application recognition Improves network troubleshooting capabilities through enhanced packet capture for analysis with Riverbed® AppResponse
  

Enhanced Control and Management

• Performs ongoing centralized management through the SteelHead Controller Web Interface,   or from CLI
• Discovers and reports on applications in use across the organization
  
• Leverages simplified configuration with REST API for hybrid features— path selection, QoS, and secure transport—and custom API scripts for monitoring
  
• Secures optimized traffic between SteelHead solutions across private and Internet links with standardsbased encryption