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Riverbed announces three releases for the Steelhead Mobile Controller Appliance, including a Virtual Edition for RSP
New Riverbed Mobile product for SMB customers
By Larry Chaffin on Mon, 07/20/09 - 9:01am.Riverbed announces three releases for the Steelhead Mobile Controller Appliance, including a Virtual Edition for RSP
Riverbed has announced releases a new Steelhead Mobile Controller Virtual Edition (SMC-VE) for the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP).
This new product will run on a VMware Workstation like the other products on the RSP, but is meant for the smaller Riverbed Steelheads. It starts with a licensing package of 10 concurrent licenses and a price less than half of a full Riverbed Mobile Server. This new product will allow smaller customers to have the same product that larger customers have now at a SMB price point.
The new SMC-VE does start at 10 concurrent licenses but can scale up to 100 concurrent licenses.
Riverbed has also expanded the original Steelhead Mobile Controller Appliance by some 2000 licenses without any additional hardware needed. The Steelhead Mobile Controller Appliance now can have up to 4000 licenses on one appliance for larger companies and those who want to expand without purchasing another controller.
Also with this announcement Riverbed has done something none of its competitors can do, that is optimize Lotus Notes with the Mobile Platform. This means that if you are on the Steelhead Mobile Controller Appliance or the SMC-VE you will be able to optimize Layer 7 Lotus Notes. This will work well for those companies and especially financial institutions such as large banks that are still using Lotus Notes.
In the testing process of the Lotus Notes enhancement, customers who are using it in their production environment saw a performance gain of 18x or more. One thing to remember about the mobile clients, employees don’t have to be mobile to use the product. If you have a small office of a few people, the mobile client is a great alternative to a larger Steelhead Appliance.
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Larry Chaffin Ph.D is the Chief Executive Officer/Chairman and founder of Pluto Networks, a Consulting and VAR partner specializing in WAN acceleration, VoIP, WLAN, telepresence and security.
Pluto Networks is a Riverbed reseller. Pluto was previously a Cisco reseller but in June, 2010, ended its reseller relationship with the company and is no longer a Cisco channel partner.
Pluto Networks specializes in the needs of small, large and enterprise companies by always giving them a great ROI on the products they sell. Pluto Networks has a presence in 23 countries around the world enabling all of its consultants to be virtual. Larry was a Judge at Interop for the Best of Interop Awards for 2009.
Larry has also co-authored all of the books listed below:
Managing Cisco Secure Networks, Skype Me, Practical VOIP Security, Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1,Configuring Juniper Networks NetScreen & SSG Firewalls,Essential Computer Security: Everyone's Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security, How to Cheat at Microsoft Vista Administration, Microsoft Vista for IT Security Professionals, Asterisk Hacking, 2008 VoIP and Video Conferencing, Infosecurity 2008 Threat Analysis and author of Building a VOIP Network with Nortel's MS5100, along with co-authoring/ghost writing eleven other technology books for VIOP, WLAN, security and optical technologies. Larry is currently working on a follow up to Building a VoIP network with Nortel's MCS 5100 Book as well as new books on Cisco Telepresence Networks, Practical VoIP case studies and WAN Acceleration with Riverbed.
Larry also has more than 29 vendor certifications and has been working on many others. Larry has been a principal architect around the world in 22 countries for many Fortune 100 companies designing VoIP, security, wireless and optical networks. He has expanded over time also to include application acceleration. Larry is working with worldwide company now out of Asia as a Special Assistant to the CEO and CIO as they go through organizational and network changes, helping them with strategic advice from his years of experience.
Pluto Networks is a channel partner of, LifeSize, Riverbed, Call Copy, Fastsoft and Symantec.
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