
SteelHead is a data center replication solution designed to optimize WAN performance between data centers. It addresses the challenges of high latency, packet loss, limited bandwidth, and congestion, enabling organizations to transfer and replicate large data sets more efficiently and securely.
Vendor
Riverbed Technology
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SteelHead is a data center replication solution designed to optimize WAN performance between data centers. It addresses the challenges of high latency, packet loss, limited bandwidth, and congestion, enabling organizations to transfer and replicate large data sets more efficiently and securely.
Key Features
WAN Optimization SteelHead significantly improves data transfer efficiency across wide area networks.
- Delivers up to 60x improvements in throughput across WANs with high latency and/or packet loss
- Reduces bandwidth requirements by up to 99%
Visibility and Control SteelHead provides enhanced management capabilities for data replication processes.
- Offers fine-grain visibility and control of individual workloads
- Improves performance, predictability, and business planning
Automatic Discovery SteelHead simplifies network integration and management.
- Automatically discovers other SteelHead devices
- Streamlines data center and network management
Benefits
Improved Business Continuity SteelHead enhances disaster recovery and data protection capabilities.
- Ensures rapid data recovery times
- Supports mission-critical business continuity processes
Cost Reduction The solution helps organizations optimize their IT investments.
- Offers the best price/performance value for data center-to-data center workloads
- Defers bandwidth upgrade expenses
Enhanced Performance SteelHead helps organizations meet and exceed performance expectations.
- Enables meeting or exceeding performance service-level agreements (SLAs)
- Overcomes network challenges and bandwidth constraints