WAN optimisation

Riverbed Technology has announced that the company’s wide area network (WAN) optimisation solutions support the recently announced VMware vSphere 4 platform. By utilising Riverbed’s WAN optimisation in conjunction with VMware vSphere 4, enterprises are able to rapidly deploy, migrate and protect application workloads running in enterprise private clouds.

Riverbed WAN optimisation technology enhances VMware vSphere 4 environments in several ways. These are: acceleration and optimisation of traffic from private clouds built on VMware vSphere 4, thus enabling enterprises to rapidly deploy, migrate and protect cloud-based workloads over the WAN; accelerating consolidation of applications and servers into the cloud/data centre while maintaining end-user performance, which enables virtualisation projects with a greater ROI; and improving backup/replication times while reducing WAN bandwidth consumption, which enables better data protection in a virtual environment.