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Easy Cloud Storage Is Riverbed's Goal with Whitewater By Mark Long November 18, 2010 2:05PM     The Whitewater storage appliance from Riverbed Technology is aimed at making storage in the cloud easy. Riverbed's Naveen Prabhu described Whitewater as a translator between existing systems and access to the cloud. With Riverbed's Whitewater, enterprises can use cheaper cloud storage instead of purchasing more equipment.   Related Topics Riverbed Storage Cloud Computing Data Centers Backup Disaster Recovery Latest News Chrome Gets Conversational Search Attention GIFers, It's Pronounced 'Jif' Nvidia GPU Boosts Citrix XenDesktop Security Alert: New Trojan Attacking Blue Coat Beefs Up Big Data Security Riverbed Technology has taken the wraps off a new storage appliance for data centers that adds a cloud component to the company's existing acceleration and deduplication offerings. The goal of the new Whitewater platform is to help enterprises leverage cloud storage as an inexpensive off-site backup facility without having to make complex changes to their existing IT infrastructures, Riverbed executives said. Companies always experience more growth in their data than they can handle, and cloud storage is an attractive option because it's cheaper than the alternatives, noted Riverbed Senior Product Marketing Manager Naveen Prabhu. "With Whitewater, people looking for an alternative data-protection strategy can now leverage the public cloud without changing any of their existing systems," Prabhu said. Speedy Performance Slated to become commercially available later in the fourth quarter, the Whitewater appliance serves as a transparent interface between the public cloud and an enterprise 's existing backup infrastructure . "Think of it as a translator between your existing software products today and what it takes to write this data into the cloud," Prabhu explained. When deploying Whitewater, enterprises don't have to think about the addition of other new software technologies to interact with the cloud storage environment. Riverbed's single-box platform fully supports existing backup software for the enterprise, such as IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Symantec Netbackup, and Symantec Backup Exec. One key advantage of cloud storage is the savings that come from being able to securely move data off-site without having to invest in a secondary data center or handle tapes. Even better, cloud storage enables businesses to adopt a pay-as-you-go strategy under which they don't need to purchase additional storage until they actually need it, Prabhu noted. According to Riverbed, enterprises completing their full weekly backups while testing the Whitewater appliance experienced backup windows that are 35 to 40 percent shorter than previously. Performance testing by the Enterprise Strategy Group also demonstrated that Whitewater enables highly compressed ZIP files to be restored from the cloud at a rate of about 13MB/sec, or at a rate of 47MB/sec for deduplication-friendly vmdk files, the company said. (continued...) 1  |  2  |  Next Page >   Tell Us What You Think Comment: Name: > Also Visit: iPad Info Center Billions of Bytes Mobile Device Now Apple Info Center TopTechWire.com Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service. Its award-winning CRM solution helps 82,400 customers worldwide manage and share business information over the Internet. Experience CRM success. Click here for a FREE 30-day trial.  Enterprise I.T. 1.   Nvidia GPU Boosts Citrix XenDesktop 2.   Security Alert: New Trojan Attacking 3.   Blue Coat Beefs Up Big Data Security 4.   Backing Up Is Hard To Do, Yet Critical 5.   Dell Kills Its In-House Public Cloud

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