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Gartner: Riverbed Is Q309 Advanced Platform WAN Optimization Controller Market Share Leader

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Gartner: Riverbed Is Q309 Advanced Platform WAN Optimization Controller Market Share Leader

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December 30, 2009

By Anamika Singh, TMCnet Contributor


Riverbed Technology, an IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, announced that Gartner (News - Alert) has identified Riverbed in its December 2009 report, “ Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide 3Q09,” as the WOC (WAN optimization controller) Advanced Platform (AP) worldwide market share leader for that quarter.

According to the report, Riverbed (News - Alert) increased its revenue share from the previous quarter by 1.8 percentage points to 34.3 percent.
Riverbed WAN optimization help enterprises to improve remote and mobile employee productivity, enable private clouds and provide enterprise-wide network and application visibility.

With increased performance of applications between remote offices, private data centers and mobile workers, Riverbed Steelhead products allow companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Riverbed WAN optimization solutions have been a choice for nearly 7,000 customers, across a wide range of markets.

In another report published in June 2009 by Gartner, 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.

“Leaders exhibit an ability to shape the market by introducing additional capabilities in their product offerings and by raising awareness of the importance of these features,” Gartner stated in the release. “ We expect a leader to be growing the market as a whole, and to have solutions that resonate with an increasing number of enterprises. Leaders in the WOC market need to have a broad feature set, including QoS, generic compression, protocol acceleration and file system acceleration, with the majority of features proven in substantial real-world implementations.They also need to be able to offer sales and support on a global basis.”

Riverbed WAN optimization allows organizations to overcome the performance barrier to successfully consolidating IT infrastructure into private clouds.
Steelhead appliances provide a robust, easy to use WAN optimization capability to the branch offices and data centers. With Steelhead appliances, company can cut bandwidth usage by 60- 95 percent, accelerate applications by up to 100x, and enable DR operations within ever-shrinking recovery windows.


Steelhead appliances also offer the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) to virtualize edge servers onto the appliance and save even more for the business.
“ Our success is a testament to our ability to align technology innovation with customer requirements, which have expanded to include overcoming performance barriers in different types of cloud environments -- including private, hybrid and public,” stated Eric Wolford, senior vice president of business development and marketing at Riverbed. “ Our solution is a critical component in developing a cost-effective and efficient IT infrastructure because we enable organizations to successfully consolidate, virtualize and accelerate data and applications anywhere in the world, even thousands of miles away without experiencing performance problems.”

Riverbed has also helped organizations to build private clouds. Riverbed recently announced its cloud direction, with 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.

Anamika Singh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anamika's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Marisa Torrieri

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