Overview
Riverbed SteelHead Cloud removes network inhibitors for fast, secure, delivery of IaaS-hosted workloads. The solution is particularly well suited to enable faster cloud migrations and support business continuity by drastically reducing the effects of network bandwidth constraints, and unpredictable latency inherent with today's data-rich and distributed collaboration environments. With Riverbed's industry-leading acceleration solution in place, application reliability and user access are greatly improved from any location regardless of distance. This results in increased productivity and a better digital experience. Our solution also results in cost-savings as data is moved in and out of the cloud.
Common application use-cases include:
- Internal Apps: Data Center/proprietary apps, Collaborative, Email, SharePoint
- Line-of-Business Mission-critical Apps: On-premises data migrations, Cross-Site
- Replication, Disaster Recovery
- Media: Video Streaming
- Tiered Storage: Hot data on premise, Cold data move to public cloud, Web Applications E-Business, Internet-facing web
Highlights
- Accelerate Applications and Data Transfer- With SteelHead Cloud you can increase application and data transfer performance up to 33x; reduce bandwidth utilization by up to 95% (deferring costly network bandwidth upgrades); and allow distributed workforce optimized access to their files and applications anytime, anywhere.
- Achieve Faster Cloud Migration - SteelHead Cloud enables your shift from high capital expenditures to a lower overall operational cost model. The solution also offers elastic sizing and easy cloning for a scale-as-you-go infrastructure for cloud.
- Streamline Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity - With SteelHead Cloud you can control and optimize large data set transfers to and from the public cloud as well as accelerate cloud to data center replication flows by up to 50x or more.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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- Launch - Select the instance size based on your needs and launch the instance using 1-click launch. 2. Configure - Add and configure a data store disk. This volume is in addition to the root volume. Navigate to Volumes in AWS Console. Click Create Volume. Under the Size(GiB) column, specify a size based on the SteelHead instance size. Under Availability zone, Please select the same zone the SteelHead instance is created in. Once the volume is created, select the volume and click Actions in AWS Console -> Click "Attach Volume" under Actions in AWS Console. 3. Access - Access Web UI by entering Public DNS in browser. Username is admin. 4. Licensing - For licensing the product, please visit https://support.riverbed.com . For any queries, please visit https://support.riverbed.com .
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