Riverbed Technology has announced the availability of Riverbed Granite 2.6, which has been enhanced with new features that support more branches, bigger data sets, and additional enterprise-class storage solutions, including IBM Storwize V7000. Riverbed Granite is a branch converged infrastructure solution, which centralises branch data in the data centre while delivering local performance to branch users. The company says, with Granite, businesses can restore operations in a matter of minutes instead of days, centrally protect and secure data, and significantly lower the TCO of branch and remote offices.
“Organisations have an average of 55 branches for every data centre and therefore managing business data across the globe is next to impossible. Organisations need better ways to protect data in remote places, faster ways to recover branches after disasters, and lower-cost ways to manage these critical operations,” said John Martin, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Storage Delivery, Riverbed. “Granite is a unique and powerful solution to this universal problem, centralising data for higher security, instant disaster recovery, and dramatically lower TCO. With our new Granite 2.6 release, we now support more branches with double the capacity and bigger data sets, resulting in even lower costs and higher security.”
“We have Riverbed Granite in all of our remote locations,” said Jerry Vigil, Director IT operations, Bill Barrett Corporation. “Our users get great local performance and my IT staff is able to manage data centrally with the added plus of having a solid, faster disaster recovery capability. I’m already a happy user. The fact that Granite 2.6 delivers even more ways to simplify management and protect data affirms that we made the right choice for our branch infrastructure.”
