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Riverbed SteelHead Cloud with RiOS 10: Accelerate AI-Ready Networking at Scale.
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Overview
Unlock the full potential of your cloud infrastructure with Riverbed SteelHead Cloud, now supercharged by RiOS 10. This Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution delivers high-performance, resilient networking that's purpose-built for the demands of the AI era.
Whether you're moving massive datasets, enabling real-time applications, or scaling across hybrid environments, SteelHead Cloud ensures your data gets where it needs to go - fast, secure, and intelligently optimized.
Why SteelHead Cloud?
Performance at Scale -
Move vast volumes of data with unmatched speed and efficiency - ideal for AI workloads and cloud-native applications.
Enterprise-Grade Security -
Protect your data across every network with advanced threat mitigation and encrypted delivery.
Future-Proof Agility -
Adapt to evolving business needs with a flexible, scalable networking foundation that grows with you.
Intelligent Visibility -
Gain actionable insights with Data Insights Dashboard to optimize performance, reduce costs, and improve user experience.
Built for the AI Era -
SteelHead Cloud is engineered to handle the massive data movement required by modern AI and machine learning platforms. It delivers secure, high-throughput connectivity across even the most challenging network conditions, so your AI initiatives never stall.
Accelerate Hybrid Cloud -
Easily leverage and control hybrid cloud environments by simplifying the management of your entire SteelHead fleet with SteelHead Central Controller, enabling you to accelerate delivery, based on your business requirements of critical applications.
Highlights
- Increase application performance up to 33x - Reduce bandwidth utilization by up to 95% - Control and optimize large data set transfers to and from the public cloud by up to 50x or more
- Defer costly network bandwidth upgrades - Speed both AI models and AI inference - Achieve faster cloud migration
- Shift from high capital expenditures to a lower overall operational cost model - Get elastic sizing, easy cloning and scale-as-you-go infrastructure for cloud - Streamline disaster recovery and business continuity
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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OtherLinux 10.2.0a
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Usage instructions
- Launch - Select the instance size based on your needs and launch the instance using 1-click launch. 2. Configure - Add and configure a data store disk. This volume is in addition to the root volume. Navigate to Volumes in AWS Console. Click Create Volume. Under the Size(GiB) column, specify a size based on the SteelHead instance size. Under Availability zone, Please select the same zone the SteelHead instance is created in. Once the volume is created, select the volume and click Actions in AWS Console -> Click "Attach Volume" under Actions in AWS Console. 3. Access - Access Web UI by entering Public DNS in browser. Username is admin. 4. Licensing - For licensing the product, please visit https://support.riverbed.com . For any queries, please visit https://support.riverbed.com .
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Customer reviews
Parvej A.
this the world best WAN optimaization Riverbed tool that reduce bandwidth
Reviewed on Feb 23, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Its completly user fraiednly WAn optimazation tool which worlds most enterprizes are using this technology and
What do you dislike about the product?
In the current Market there is very advanced WAn optimaation tool came into the market
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
WAN Report and confiration change and monitioring
Syed Mohammad Azharuddin I.
Best WAN optimizer
Reviewed on Feb 07, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of deployment and configuration. Also the support and documentation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need more helping hand on deciding the right products considering the environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Applications that eats lot of bandwidth are now optimized to get the best use of WAN circuits. Also, the latency of other applications has also improved significantly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Evaluate your network, identify the key issues faced due to legacy applications, then, look for right product at steelhead to solve your issues.
Saad u.
A device that can do a big thing
Reviewed on Feb 06, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Brilliant performance with very minimal configurations that can perform high reduction for all kinds of applications and databases and can use in different scenarios and I have personally used almost types of designs whether it is Datacenter and DR-SITE replication, Hub and spoke, physical in-path, out-of-path scenarios
What do you dislike about the product?
The least helpful about steelhead is sometimes about reporting, which is limited to 30 days if you do not have the controller and the other aspect is that you need to be more technical if you wish to troubleshoot yourself that is very technical.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Steelhead reduces traffic for layer1, layer4, and layer7 traffic. The not only reduction in traffic, but it also accelerates and reduces the lags in the traffic.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Steelhead is a brilliant device when performing reduction in traffic. I have experienced the majority of applications that can be easily optimized. Also shared those applications/databases that already performed deduplication like data domain. Overall it is the best option to perform WAN Optimization between Hub and Hub, Hub and spoke. It will help you in making your business productive with fast convergence of application
Mohammad Hassan M.
Riverbed is one of the great Product for WAN Optimization.
Reviewed on Feb 04, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Its Performance, we were used in Number of companies.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing it is best product for WAN optimization
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We mostly taking TAC support whenever we are facing any problem
Gopal Krishan M.
Riverbed SteelHead - A classic, reliable and trusted WAN Optimizer
Reviewed on Jan 04, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Data, Application & Transport streamlining with elastic performance
What do you dislike about the product?
Non-intuitive and difficult to understand technologies and configurations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
WAN acceleration for poor applications and much faster delivery.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ensure your tech staff is adequately trained with the free KT they provide while delivering the product.