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Riverbed has recently released version 2 of the EX platform software, this includes RiOS 8 and Virtual Services Platform v2. VSPv2 runs VMware ESXi 5 as it’s hypervisor layer and as such can be managed by VMware vCenter. [Read More]

Riverbed Whitewater allows you to connect your on-premise backup and archive environment to a public cloud storage provider like Microsoft’s Windows Azure. [Read More]

In this post I wanted to explore how you can accelerate file storage (using CIFS as an example) over a wide area network and why it traditionally does not work for block storage (using iSCSI as an example). First let’s look into some of the (greatly simplified) common differences between... [Read More]