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IT performance company – Riverbed Technologies – foresees huge opportunity in the IT integration space.
Managing Director (India), Mr Anil Batra, said the company had grown significantly since it introduced its first product here in 2004.
“We are not a single product company,” Mr Batra said and spoke at length about Riverbed's latest release – ‘Granite'.
“To facilitate complete IT consolidation, we developed a new/different architectural approach. This new approach called edge Virtual Server Infrastructure (edge VSI) allows IT to consolidate and manage all edge servers in the data centre and save up to 50 per cent over traditional approaches by eliminating costly back up and recovery processes in remote locations. Riverbed Granite is the new product that enables edge VSI,” Mr Batra told Business Line .
Edge VSI is complementary to wide area network (WAN) optimisation, he said and claimed that the company “literally wrote the book on WAN optimisation control”.
Stating that organisations globally have benefited by deploying WAN optimisation for a variety of reasons such as application acceleration, consolidation, bandwidth savings and business continuity, he said “yet, to complete consolidation of global infrastructure, few servers often remain in the branch.
“Granite allows organisations to remove those remaining servers and achieve complete consolidation. The evolution of virtualisation and consolidation along with Granite is allowing organisations to have centralised control of sprawled infrastructure”,.
He conceded that bandwidth and latency were secret killers. “But Granite solves bandwidth and latency over distributed networks by adding file system intelligence and keeping interactions between servers and storage parallel.”
Explaining the technology, Mr Robert Healey, Marketing Evangelist for APAC and Japan at Riverbed, said “consider employees working on large CAD files. Sharing hundreds of megabytes can be difficult across the WAN. Granite would help store data in the data centre and project CAD documents from the data centre storage over the WAN to local offices without impacting end user experience.”
He further admitted that connectivity would not be an issue within the office, but application performance tended to slow down considerably when one stepped out.
“If the data are running slow, you enhance bandwidth, but bandwidth alone cannot combat latency. Launch of Granite would help address such issues,” he said
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