Riverbed SteelHead Cloud is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution designed to optimize and accelerate cloud workloads across multi-cloud and hybrid network environments. It operates on leading IaaS platforms like Microsoft Azure and AWS, enhancing migration speed and access to various workloads through advanced data, transport, and application streamlining techniques

Key Features

Cloud Workload Acceleration SteelHead Cloud accelerates migration and access to cloud workloads, improving overall business productivity.

• Operates on major IaaS platforms like Microsoft Azure and AWS
• Utilizes proven data, transport, and application streamlining techniques

Comprehensive Application Support The solution optimizes a wide range of applications and workloads across networks.

• Internal data center apps (collaborative tools, email, SharePoint)
• Line-of-business applications (mission-critical apps, cross-site replication, disaster recovery)
• Media streaming (video streaming)
• Tiered storage (hot data on-premise, cold data in the cloud)
• Web applications

SaaS Optimization SteelHead SaaS, a component of the solution, specifically targets SaaS application performance.

• Accelerates SaaS applications by up to 33x
• Improves efficiency and fine-tunes data delivery

Benefits

Enhanced Business Productivity SteelHead Cloud addresses performance concerns in cloud environments, leading to improved overall business productivity.

• Increases time to market for cloud-based applications and services
• Enhances employee productivity through faster access to cloud workloads

Maximized Cloud Value The solution helps businesses extract maximum value from their cloud investments.

• Optimizes cloud workload performance
• Improves hybrid WAN performance

Secure Optimization SteelHead offers industry-leading secure optimization capabilities.

• Ensures fast, agile, and secure delivery of cloud workloads
• Provides optimization for all applications across networksProvides optimization for all applications across networks