Overall Satisfaction with Riverbed Steelhead
Riverbed Steelhead is used within our organization for the global acceleration of all applications and additionally for our customers as a managed service. For this reason, we designed a product based on Riverbed and named it Managed WAN Acceleration Service. Our customers are buying that service and we keep the hardware up and running and in service.
- Remote sites to datacenters
- Performance over long distances
- Security over WAN
- Integration of public clouds with their licensing
- All hardware in one controller like Steel-Connect
- Has to be integrated into the total cost, e.g. WAN
- High costs in startup for hardware & service
- Cloud Steelhead available, too
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.