Riverbed
Technology, an IT performance company, announced an expansion of the ecosystem
for the Riverbed Whitewater family of cloud storage gateway solutions for data
protection, giving organizations more choice and flexibility when replacing
tape storage with a fast, secure and cost-efficient solution that seamlessly
off-sites data to cloud storage environments.
Riverbed
has grown the number of cloud storage, backup software, and critical database
protection solutions supported by Whitewater to more than 15, tripling the size
of the ecosystem in the last six months.
“By
working closely with more than 15 leading solution providers that are now
supported by Whitewater gateways, we’re giving customers the most comprehensive
choices for their cloud-based data protection initiatives,” said Ray
Villeneuve, general manager of cloud storage at Riverbed.
Added
to the Whitewater gateway ecosystem are cloud storage solutions Windows Azure,
Rackspace Cloud Files and OpenStack Object Storage (Swift); backup software
CommVault Simpana for Backup and Recovery, HP Data Protector and Veeam Backup
& Replication; as well as critical database protection solutions Microsoft
SQL Server backup and restore and Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN).
By
providing more choice and flexibility, Riverbed ensures its customers can
confidently move to cloud storage to enhance their data protection strategies,
regardless of location or data protection application, to best meet the needs
of their organization.
Riverbed continues to expand its ecosystem with the addition of cloud storage
solutions Windows Azure, Rackspace Cloud Files and OpenStack Object Storage
(Swift). These solution additions build on the existing support for Amazon
Simple Storage Service (S3), EMC Atmos-based cloud storage solutions and Nirvanix
Cloud Delivery Network (CDN).
By
providing support for many cloud storage providers, Whitewater offers
enterprises unmatched flexibility to choose the cloud storage solution that
best meets their requirements for disaster recovery (DR), data storage location,
service level agreements (SLAs) and cost.
Riverbed
continues to expand the number of backup software solutions supported by
Whitewater gateways. Existing solutions supported by Riverbed are CA ARCserve
Backup, EMC NetWorker, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Quest vRanger, Symantec’s
NetBackup and Backup Exec.
By
Telecomlead.com Team
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