Riverbed Technology has announced new Steelhead Mobile capabilities that allow organizations of all sizes to deploy a cost-effective mobile WAN optimization solution with increased scalability, speed and simplicity. In this release, Riverbed is introducing Steelhead Mobile Controller-Virtual Edition (SMC-VE), increased capacity for the Steelhead Mobile Controller (SMC) appliance, and additional application-level latency optimization for Steelhead Mobile. Organizations from small-to-mid-size businesses (SMBs) to the largest global corporations can take advantage of these new features to provide their mobile workforce with LAN-like access to corporate files and applications.
Riverbed is introducing SMC-VE, which will make enterprise-grade acceleration more accessible to SMBs. SMC-VE is a virtual package deployed on the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP), a virtualized platform that resides on the Steelhead appliance that provides customers with the capability to run up to five additional services and applications in a protected partition on the Steelhead appliance. By running SMC-VE within the RSP, Riverbed offers enterprises the opportunity to obtain all of the same benefits of Steelhead Mobile while eliminating the need to purchase additional hardware. Enterprises can purchase as few as 10 initial Steelhead Mobile licenses, up to a total capacity of 100 licenses, and manage those concurrent licenses with SMC-VE running within the RSP to make it easier to cost-effectively target mobile users in environments where the additional scale of the SMC is unnecessary. In addition, larger organizations that have a small number of mobile workers will be able to implement cost effective deployments of Steelhead Mobile.
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