Riverbed extends lead in WDS with RiOS 5.0

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Riverbed Technology Inc. has launched v5.0 of the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS), which powers the award-winning Riverbed Steelhead product line. RiOS 5.0 extends the Riverbed lead in delivering to its customers the best speed for the broad range of applications important to businesses of every size and across all industries.

With the introduction of RiOS 5.0, Riverbed is the first vendor to provide application-level protocol optimization for Microsoft Exchange 2007. This makes Riverbed the first and the only vendor to accelerate Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007. In addition, Riverbed is building upon its lead in delivering solutions to enhance IT flexibility and capabilities with new scale, simplicity and security features, including the new RiOS Services Platform (RSP) for delivering virtualized edge services without the need to deploy additional branch office servers.

In a recent survey of over 1,000 WDS customers, over half said application performance was their primary reason for purchasing a WDS solution. With RiOS 5.0, Riverbed has extended its lead in meeting this demand by providing even faster performance for enterprise applications, including Exchange 2007 and enterprise Web applications.

Another First: Exchange (MAPI) 2007 Acceleration
Riverbed has expanded its support for Microsoft Exchange environments and is the first WDS vendor to deliver a protocol optimization specifically for the Exchange 2007 protocol (MAPI 2K7) at the application layer. Riverbed is the only vendor that provides application-level optimization for Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007.

More Application-Level Acceleration
In RiOS 5.0, Riverbed adds to its existing HTTP and HTTPS acceleration capabilities by further improving the performance of enterprise Web applications, including SAP NetWeaver, Oracle, PeopleSoft/JD Edwards, Microsoft and Siebel CRM, SharePoint, and Outlook Web Access (OWA). In RiOS 5.0, Riverbed can further reduce the chattiness and delay often associated with enterprise Web-based applications. Users of RiOS 5.0 will see additional performance improvements of up to 10X for their Web applications.

RiOS 5.0 also delivers acceleration capabilities for Oracle 11i applications running in HTTP mode. This acceleration builds on the existing RiOS support for Oracle 11i Jinitiator socket mode optimization and targets the Oracle E-Business suite of applications, particularly Oracle forms traffic and reporting, as well as other application operations. Riverbed is the only vendor that provides application-level optimization for Oracle 11i.

Keep it Simple: Ease of Management
Ease of management is critical for organizations large and small. The ease of management delivered by Riverbed is one of the key reasons that, according to IDC, customers experience a payback within approximately seven months when implementing Riverbed solutions. With RiOS 5.0, Riverbed has expanded on its already strong management capabilities with features such as the RSP, an enhanced GUI and role-based administration. These new capabilities allow organizations of all sizes to greatly simplify the management of IT at their remote locations and are especially important in large-scale and centralized environments.



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