Riverbed Whitewater Cloud Storage Gateway Appliance for Enterprise

Riverbed Technology,
Inc. introduced a Whitewater
cloud storage gateway model appliance to handle larger backup data workloads
and a next generation OS for all Whitewater appliance models.

The Whitewater 3010 appliance offers
four times the local storage capacity of previous models to address larger
scale enterprise requirements. Additionally, Riverbed is introducing Whitewater
OS (WWOS) version 2.0, which was built for enterprise 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, modernize their data management strategies and
overcome the challenges created by the staggering pace of data growth.

"Backup is one of the leading use
cases for public cloud storage and firms are increasing their exploration and
adoption of public cloud storage. What we refer to as basic public cloud
storage is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 33.6%, indicating that
worldwide spending on basic public cloud storage will be in the range of $9.2
billion by 2015," said IDC, Laura Dubois, program VP for IDC’s storage
practice. "Service providers and users alike are leveraging cloud storage
gateway appliances to cost effectively, seamlessly, securely and transparently
integrate cloud storage services for backup workloads."

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 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 organizations to
leverage the scale and flexibility of the cloud as they seek to securely manage
and protect vital business and customer information.

Whitewater appliances modernize data
protection and streamline IT operations for organizations of all sizes. They
eliminate tape, improve DR 
readiness, and integrate with existing data protection software
applications to reduce costs 30 to 50% over tape and replicated disk solutions.
The result is a ROI that leverages the cloud for backup storage and as a DR
site. This lights out, no tape backup model frees administrators from mundane
backup tasks and allows them to focus on higher value IT projects.
Organizations typically deploy Whitewater appliances and begin moving data to
the cloud in less than an hour and can connect popular data protection
applications to leading cloud service providers without changes to existing
infrastructure, schedules or policies.

Riverbed is introducing the Whitewater
3010 model appliance for larger backup data sets. With four times the disk
storage and twice the RAM of the previous largest model, enterprises can
improve their data protection, implement a low cost backup storage tier and
enjoy the benefits of pay-for-use cloud storage.

"Streamlining our data protection
strategy has become a priority as the size of our data sets grow, regulatory
requirements become more stringent, and the pressure to be more efficient with
our IT budget and resources increases," said Michael Roach, senior systems
engineer at Internap Network Services Corporation. "The Whitewater 3010 model appliance exceeds our
expectations and is superior to data protection alternatives that do not scale,
have become very costly and require more IT resources."

Improved Efficiency and Simplified
Management
with Whitewater OS 2.0
The new WWOS 2.0
introduces several new features that enable enterprises to have more
efficient, reliable backup and restores, as well as centralized administration
and remote support.

• Increased Capacity – Enterprises can
  move to the cloud as larger full backups are supported. When used with the
  Whitewater 3010 model appliance, enterprises can now support up to 32TB of
  deduplicated local storage and 160TB of deduplicated cloud storage. This
  capacity increase represents total source data of 1.6PB to 4.8PB.
• Improved Ingest Performance – To ensure
  that backups can be accomplished during tight backup windows, WWOS 2.0 offers
  increased data ingest performance for faster processing of larger backups. With
  the Whitewater 3010 model appliance, enterprises can see up to a 50% improvement
  over previous models.
• Management Dashboard – To ensure the
  protection of critical business data, a new enterprise management dashboard
  provides users with real time monitoring and reporting to better analyze,
  monitor and manage cloud backup processes.
• Remote Management – Enterprises can
  remotely control and centrally manage Whitewater appliances using lights-out
  management technology to reboot, shutdown or monitor one or more appliances.
• Proactive Alerting – To eliminate issues
  before they impact operations, enterprises can set up alerts to notify
  administrators when critical thresholds are projected to be reached.
• Windows Active directory Integration –
  Enterprises can streamline operations and improve security by centrally
  managing user access to Whitewater appliances leveraging existing Windows
  Active directory policies and deployments.

"By working closely with customers that have
deployed our Whitewater cloud storage gateway appliances and incorporating
feedback from our growing base of enterprise users, we are introducing several
new features," said Riverbed Whitewater Cloud Storage GM Ray Villeneuve.
"Enterprises now have the capacity, enhanced performance, management
features, and security they need to cost-efficiently and seamlessly send and
store backup and infrequently used archival data off-site to public and private
storage clouds. Now a broader range of organizations have a fast, secure and
reliable method to meet their recovery time and recovery point objectives and
enhance their data management strategies."