Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, announced today that Gartner has identified Riverbed® in its recently announced report, “Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 4Q09 and 2009,” 1 as the WOC (WAN optimization controller) Advanced Platform worldwide market share leader for 4Q 2009 based on revenue.
According to Gartner’s market share report, Riverbed increased its revenue share and maintained its lead by capturing 34.5% of the market. In the same report, Riverbed is named the worldwide market share leader in the Advanced Platform WOC category for CY 2009 based on revenue with 33.2% market share.
Riverbed WAN optimization solutions enable organizations of all sizes to overcome a wide range of IT infrastructure performance bottlenecks, including poor application performance, slow database backups and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding applications between data centers, remote offices and mobile workers, in some cases by up to 100 times, Riverbed Steelhead® appliances eliminate the performance barrier for those looking to adopt a cloud-oriented IT delivery model.
Riverbed WAN optimization solutions enable organizations of all sizes to overcome a wide range of IT infrastructure performance bottlenecks, including poor application performance, slow database backups and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding applications between data centers, remote offices and mobile workers, in some cases by up to 100 times, Riverbed Steelhead® appliances eliminate the performance barrier for those looking to adopt a cloud-oriented IT delivery model.
Riverbed WAN Optimization Extends Its Benefits beyond
Application Acceleration
The number one reason organizations select Riverbed WAN optimization solutions is to increase the speed of applications over the WAN, which enables strategic initiatives such as consolidating to private clouds. Without a high-performing WAN optimization solution in place to accelerate applications, data requests over the WAN result in congested networks, poor application performance and frustrated end users, making accelerating application performance key to successful IT centralization. Whether an organization is focused on consolidating file servers, email servers, SAN or NAS devices, or remote tape backup libraries, Riverbed WAN optimization solutions will accelerate application performance typically by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times over the WAN, and reduce WAN bandwidth utilization, typically by 60 to 95%.
Riverbed presents additional IT consolidation opportunities with the enhanced Riverbed Services Platform (RSP). The RSP allows customers to create a branch office box (BoB) that can run up to five additional services or applications virtually in a protected partition on the Steelhead appliance. This approach allows customers to deploy a customized library of local services in all of their branch offices, without the need to deploy and maintain full-blown servers to run the applications.
“The RSP has allowed Riverbed to begin to deliver on the efficiency and control promised by branch office boxes and has been an important differentiator for us over the 2009 calendar year. The ability to consolidate remote office services and standardize to one branch office box is very compelling to customers, and we saw strong adoption trends in 2009,” said Eric Wolford, senior vice president of marketing and business development at Riverbed. “As our customers embark on consolidation efforts at the branch and into private cloud environments, they are finding that Riverbed IT performance solutions are key enablers.”
Looking Forward: Extending Acceleration Capabilities to the Public Cloud
Building on its success in enabling organizations large and small to build private clouds, Riverbed recently unveiled its cloud direction, including the upcoming virtual Steelhead for the cloud, which will extend the benefits of Riverbed WAN optimization by accelerating the performance of applications and data transfers across private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructures.
Similar to how Riverbed addressed fundamental protocol inefficiencies for applications (used over the WAN) that resulted in order of magnitude performance gains, Riverbed will release advanced new technology that addresses fundamental protocol inefficiencies for block storage protocols that again produce order of magnitude performance gains over the WAN. What was deemed impossible before—running any block protocol over the WAN—will be possible with this advanced new technology. This new innovation enables thousands of miles of separation between storage and compute resources, transforming the WAN into a SAN (iSCSI).
In a separate report published by Gartner in June 2009, Riverbed was positioned in the leaders quadrant in the “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controller (WOC), 2009” authored by Andy Rolfe, Joe Skorupa and Severine Real. To download the complimentary report, visit: http://www.riverbed.com/lg/whitepaper-gartner-2009.php?CID=70170000000IqIo.
About the Magic Quadrant
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1 Gartner, Inc., “Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 4Q09 and 2009″ by Joe Skorupa and Nhat Pham, March 2010
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