Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, has introduced the first wide area network (WAN) optimisation solution purpose-built for public cloud environments.

The new Riverbed Cloud Steelhead provides enterprises and government organizations with market-leading performance in a solution that is engineered for the public cloud. Cloud Steelhead was designed to easily install and scale within cloud service provider environments in order to both accelerate the migration of data to the public cloud and improve performance for applications hosted in the public cloud.

Enterprises that move their applications and data to the public cloud face similar challenges to those faced by organizations that consolidate their IT infrastructure into data centers or private clouds:  latency and bandwidth constraints dramatically slow performance. Riverbed tests found that due to network constraints, using a public cloud to store and access data can be up to 20X slower than a local environment.

“Our customers have depended on us to help them understand, optimize and consolidate their current IT infrastructure into private clouds,” said Apurva Davé, vice president of product marketing at Riverbed.-TradeArabia News Service