Riverbed Introduces Whitewater Cloud Storage Gateway Appliance

September 13, 2012 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from BizTech2. Author: Editorial Staff.

Riverbed Technology, the performance company, has introduced a new Whitewater cloud storage gateway model appliance to handle larger backup data workloads and an operating system for all Whitewater appliance models. The new Whitewater model 3010 appliance offers four times the local storage capacity of previous models to address larger scale enterprise requirements. Additionally, Riverbed is introducing Whitewater Operating System (WWOS) version 2.0, which was built for enterprise-grade performance, high scalability and simplified administration. Whitewater appliances running WWOS 2.0 will enable enterprises to better leverage cloud storage to meet their critical backup requirements, modernise their data management strategies and overcome the challenges created by the staggering pace of data growth.

While companies have relied on tape-based backups for decades, the growth of data is putting enterprises at risk because the process of recovering data from tapes often exceeds service level agreements (SLAs) demanded by the business. Some enterprises have responded by moving to replicated disk-based backup strategies, but relentless data growth has made these configurations cost-prohibitive for many IT departments…

As a result, data protection is becoming an increasingly difficult and expensive task for enterprises. At the same time, cloud storage prices are continuing to drop to new lows making it a new, more cost-effective and attractive alternative to enterprises. Cloud storage gateways like Whitewater enable organisations to instantly leverage the scale and flexibility of the cloud as they seek to securely manage and protect vital business and customer information…

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