Riverbed has rolled out a new Whitewater cloud storage gateway model appliance to handle larger backup data workloads and a next generation operating system for all Whitewater appliance models. The new Whitewater model 3010 appliance facilitates four times the local storage capacity of previous models to address larger scale enterprise requirements.
Additionally, Riverbed is introducing Whitewater Operating System (WWOS) version 2.0, which was built for enterprise-grade performance, high scalability and simplified administration.
“Backup is one of the leading use cases for public cloud storage and firms are increasing their exploration and adoption of public cloud storage. What we refer to as basic public cloud storage is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 33.6 percent, indicating that worldwide spending on basic public cloud storage will be in the range of $9.2 billion by 2015,” said IDC, Laura Dubois, program vice president for IDC's storage practice. “Service providers and users alike are leveraging cloud storage gateway appliances to cost effectively, seamlessly, securely and transparently integrate cloud storage services for backup workloads.”
While companies have relied on tape-based backups for decades, the growth of data is putting enterprises at risk because the process of recovering data from tapes often exceeds service level agreements (SLAs) demanded by the business. Some enterprises have responded by moving to replicated disk-based backup strategies, but relentless data growth has made these configurations cost-prohibitive for many IT departments. As a result, data protection is becoming an increasingly difficult and expensive task for enterprises.
Whitewater appliances modernize data protection and streamline IT operations for organizations of all sizes. Whitewater appliances eliminate tape, improve disaster recovery (DR) readiness, and seamlessly integrate with existing data protection software applications to reduce costs 30 to 50 percent over tape and replicated disk solutions. The result is a fast return on investment that leverages the cloud for backup storage and as a DR site. This lights out, no tape backup model frees administrators from mundane backup tasks and allows them to focus on higher value IT projects.
To better meet the needs of enterprises, Riverbed is introducing the Whitewater 3010 model appliance for larger backup data sets.
“Streamlining our data protection strategy has become a priority as the size of our data sets grow, regulatory requirements become more stringent, and the pressure to be more efficient with our IT budget and resources increases,” said Michael Roach, Senior Systems Engineer at Internap. “The Whitewater 3010 model appliance exceeds our expectations and is superior to data protection alternatives that do not scale, have become very costly and require more IT resources.”
In the new WWOS 2.0, Riverbed is introducing several new features that enable enterprises to have more efficient, reliable backup and restores, as well as centralized administration and remote support.
• Increased Capacity
• Improved Ingest Performance
• Management Dashboard
• Remote Management
• Proactive Alerting
• Windows Active Directory Integration
“By working closely with customers that have deployed our Whitewater cloud storage gateway appliances and incorporating feedback from our growing base of enterprise users, we are introducing several new features,” said Riverbed Whitewater Cloud Storage General Manager Ray Villeneuve. “Enterprises now have the capacity, enhanced performance, management features, and security they need to cost-efficiently and seamlessly send and store backup and infrequently used archival data off-site to public and private storage clouds. Now a broader range of organizations have a fast, secure and reliable method to meet their recovery time and recovery point objectives and enhance their data management strategies.”
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