FEATURE BRIEF: RiOs – What’s New

RIVERBED OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM (RiOS)
— WHAT’S NEW
NEW FEATURES & CAPABILITIES
• Cost-effectively leverages and enhances hybrid networks to meet business demands • Delivers support for application-level visibility and reporting • Introduces industry-first optimizations for Microsoft and NetApp applications • Offers Steelhead CX 255 for branch offices — high-speed performance with enterprise-class WAN optimization

ACCELERATION EVERYWHERE WITH ENHANCED IT CONTROL AND VISIBILITY
With the increased reliability of internet connections and adoption of cloud-based services, businesses want to balance, optimize, and accelerate applications across hybrid private, public, and Internet links to realize cost savings without sacrificing performance. With the Riverbed® Optimization System (RiOS®) 8.5 for the Riverbed® Steelhead® product family, a groundbreaking new path selection technology enables businesses with complex hybrid networks across branch offices to maximize the performance of business-critical and consumer applications while retaining IT control and reducing complexity and costs.

In addition, RiOS 8.5:
• Delivers support for the Riverbed Cascade® Profiler appliance, providing organizations with visibility and insights on network usage to enable IT to better monitor and deliver high performance for applications. • Offers new industry-first optimizations for Microsoft® and NetApp® applications critical to providing a reliable performance experience to ensure collaboration, productivity, and communication. • Introduces the Riverbed® Steelhead® CX 255 model appliance, which enables organizations with smaller branch offices to cost-effectively deliver high-speed performance with enterprise-class WAN optimization. With RiOS 8.5 for Steelhead appliances, we are delivering the most comprehensive and customer-centric WAN optimization product family for organizations with distributed IT and hybrid networks to achieve acceleration everywhere.

FEATURE BRIEF: RiOs – What’s New

STEELHEAD RIOS 8.5 ADVANTAGES
Path selection delivering acceleration everywhere with enhanced control and visibility
To meet changing business and end-user demands, the network is evolving rapidly to a hybrid architecture leveraging the ubiquity, price, and speed of the Internet to complement the MPLS-based WAN network. With the introduction of path selection in RiOS 8.5, IT organizations can cost effectively deploy and manage complex hybrid networks to deliver greater application reliability, performance, and cost-savings. The path selection feature maximizes the performance of applications using deep packet inspection (DPI)-based application awareness to distinguish between business-critical and recreational traffic. In the event of performance degradations, the path selection feature reroutes application flows, thus ensuring no impact to users. Riverbed’s competitively differentiated approach is transparent to the existing network, easy to configure through an intuitive graphical interface, and tightly integrated with a rich deep packet inspection engine for flexible and granular policy definition. With integrated quality of service (QoS) and now path selection, Riverbed WAN optimization product family provides IT organizations with the ability to control network consumption, prioritizing mission-critical and latency-sensitive applications, while minimizing utilization by recreational traffic and reducing IT costs.

Combined support for application-aware network performance management
Combining WAN optimization, QoS, path selection, and application-aware network performance management capabilities, Steelhead products are the industry’s first integrated solutions, providing you with unprecedented control and visibility—even in the most complex environments. Support of Cascade 10.0.7 in RiOS 8.5 extends application-aware network performance management capabilities to Steelhead WAN optimization deployments.