Riverbed SteelHead vs. Silver Peak NX

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Riverbed SteelHead
Score 8.1 out of 10
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San Francisco based Riverbed Technology offers Steelhead, a WAN optimization solution, which includes the SteelHead CX/GX delivering optimization for Hybrid WANs, accelerating the performance of applications to improve productivity and reduce costs, and SteelHead SD combining SD-WAN and WAN Optimization, providing a single, unified orchestration and connectivity fabric across the entire distributed enterprise network with embedded security, optimization, and visibility.N/A
Silver Peak NX
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Silver Peak NX appliances are WAN optimization solutions, sized for the smallest of branch offices to the world's largest data centers and disaster recovery sites, supporting up to 5 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) of WAN capacity and 512,000 simultaneous flows. Silver Peak is now part of Aruba, since the September 2020 acquisition of Silver Peak by HPE.N/A
Pricing
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Riverbed SteelHeadSilver Peak NX
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Riverbed SteelHeadSilver Peak NX
Considered Both Products
Riverbed SteelHead
Chose Riverbed SteelHead
Riverbed Steelhead offers simplicity and fantastic customer support. The performance is a cut above the others as well.
Silver Peak NX

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User Ratings
Riverbed SteelHeadSilver Peak NX
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(6 ratings)
9.0
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Support Rating
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8.0
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User Testimonials
Riverbed SteelHeadSilver Peak NX
Likelihood to Recommend
Riverbed Technology
If you are dealing with large CAD files on a daily basis "remotely", Riverbed Steelhead makes your home office feel just like the office
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
It works fantastic when you want to reduce network cost and get the same result than with an MPLS. It's less appropriate for big companies with a lot of small sites.
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Pros
Riverbed Technology
  • Effectively improves data throughput over VPN WAN connections.
  • Seamless operation.
  • Optimizes a variety of applications. Including, HTTPS, Citrix, Netapp SM and SV, Exchange, etc.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • WAN Acceleration.
  • Improves application performance.
  • Reduce bandwidth costs.
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Cons
Riverbed Technology
  • A reduction in price is always welcomed
  • Simplify and streamline advanced features and add-on pieces for more detailed traffic analysis
  • Getting granularity into traffic behavior becomes confusing and very expensive
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Support Rating
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
They need to improve their Spanish communication.
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Alternatives Considered
Riverbed Technology
We tested Cisco eleven years ago in parallel with Riverbed in a PoC. The Cisco configuration was very complex and sticky based on the location. The Riverbed configuration is flexible based on the whole storage. A software client for devices like laptops or tablets is not available for Cisco WAAS, therefore we selected Riverbed based on a PoC.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Because of their WAN acceleration feature
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Return on Investment
Riverbed Technology
  • Files now open a lot quicker, at near local speeds.
  • We are able to respond to customers quicker as we can get access quicker.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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