Riverbed notes that 50% of company data and intellectual property still resides outside the data centre, leaving it vulnerable to compromise and data breaches. Backup processes are cumbersome and data recovery is time-consuming or even futile without qualified IT staff at most branches, not to mention the challenges of provisioning new services or applications in an agile world. These activities, and others that support branch IT operations, consume 50% of IT budgets.
“With the volume of data created and stored outside the central data center continuing to grow significantly, CIOs are actively looking for ways to mitigate risk and simplify the challenge of data security and centralisation, while achieving optimal productivity in branch locations,” said Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “Branch IT operations represent a significant opportunity to address these issues, and CIOs must carefully consider how the current state of branch IT affects the business and bottom line, and which new technologies can help move branches into a more secure and cost-effective operating model."
SteelFusion 4.0 is expected to be generally available in May 2015. The Zero Branch IT web event on April 28, 2015 (1am Singapore time, 9pm Dubai time according to World Time Buddy) will provide more information.
SteelFusion 4.0 meets the IT challenges of today’s branch environments by removing all servers, storage, and backup from remote sites; enabling instant provisioning and recovery; providing complete security and visibility; and ensuring that applications simply work. The secret is to consolidate 100% of data and servers from remote sites into data centres, centralising IT operations.
In SteelFusion 4.0, the hardware platforms have been completely redesigned to deliver increased performance and scalability for remote sites. SteelFusion 4.0 also introduces new FusionSync for seamless branch continuity. FusionSync ensures that all branch data is accessible across private and hybrid cloud environments, providing the ability to withstand and recover from data centre failures with zero downtime.
Riverbed suggests thinking of the branch as if it is a smartphone – a device that has access to all the applications and data of the Internet and cloud but without application servers, storage, and backup infrastructure with it. In the age of the cloud, branch IT should be the same way, and it can be enabled with Riverbed SteelFusion 4.0.
“Branches are the front lines of business with increasing IT needs. However, the answer to delivering customer-centric business is not to introduce more IT complexity and infrastructure, but to rethink branch IT,” said Paul O’Farrell, Senior Vice President and General Manager, SteelFusion and SteelHead Product Groups at Riverbed.
“Branches are the front lines of business with increasing IT needs. However, the answer to delivering customer-centric business is not to introduce more IT complexity and infrastructure, but to rethink branch IT,” said Paul O’Farrell, Senior Vice President and General Manager, SteelFusion and SteelHead Product Groups at Riverbed.
“With SteelFusion 4.0, Riverbed delivers the branch of the future with a zero branch IT solution that eliminates the challenges of supporting remote sites. This means getting all of the infrastructure — servers, storage and backup — out of the branch and centralised into the data centre. By doing so, companies gain the agility to instantly provision new services and apps and to recover data in minutes versus days. This also means data security and control with full visibility, ensuring business continuity, and that apps perform as if local. SteelFusion 4.0 delivers on all these promises and more.”
Riverbed customers like Weatherford, one of the largest global oil and gas service providers, are already benefiting from the 'zero IT at the branch' approach. “Our operations cover oil rigs and offshore locations where any disruption or unavailability of applications on site would result in loss of production time,” explained Han Koon Er, Asia Pacific IT Manager, Weatherford Asia Pacific.
Riverbed customers like Weatherford, one of the largest global oil and gas service providers, are already benefiting from the 'zero IT at the branch' approach. “Our operations cover oil rigs and offshore locations where any disruption or unavailability of applications on site would result in loss of production time,” explained Han Koon Er, Asia Pacific IT Manager, Weatherford Asia Pacific.
“With Riverbed SteelFusion, we are able to optimise data centre processes and thereby eliminate file servers, storage and other backup processes which require our IT teams to be dispatched to remote locations. This has enabled focused production on site with peace of mind that data is secured at our data centre."
SteelFusion 4.0 incorporates a new SteelFusion Edge platform to support larger branch offices. The new SteelFusion Edge platform delivers 4x the memory for virtual machines topping at 256GB to run a greater number of local workloads at larger branch offices and regional hubs. The three models in the new SteelFusion Edge platform also feature Advanced Tiering Cache that complements the existing write cache with solid-state disk read functionality. The new Edge platform replaces all existing SteelFusion Edge models.
SteelFusion 4.0 incorporates a new SteelFusion Edge platform to support larger branch offices. The new SteelFusion Edge platform delivers 4x the memory for virtual machines topping at 256GB to run a greater number of local workloads at larger branch offices and regional hubs. The three models in the new SteelFusion Edge platform also feature Advanced Tiering Cache that complements the existing write cache with solid-state disk read functionality. The new Edge platform replaces all existing SteelFusion Edge models.
“With the volume of data created and stored outside the central data center continuing to grow significantly, CIOs are actively looking for ways to mitigate risk and simplify the challenge of data security and centralisation, while achieving optimal productivity in branch locations,” said Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “Branch IT operations represent a significant opportunity to address these issues, and CIOs must carefully consider how the current state of branch IT affects the business and bottom line, and which new technologies can help move branches into a more secure and cost-effective operating model."
SteelFusion 4.0 is expected to be generally available in May 2015. The Zero Branch IT web event on April 28, 2015 (1am Singapore time, 9pm Dubai time according to World Time Buddy) will provide more information.
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