Riverbed Compatible With Brocade 7500/FR4-18i Blade

Riverbed Technology announced that its WAN optimization solutions have been verified by Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. as compatible with the Brocade 7500/FR4-18i Blade, according to the testing requirements of the Brocade Data Center Ready Program. The program is an initiative designed to foster interoperability in multi-vendor Brocade-based data center environments.

Testing was conducted at the Brocade Data Center Ready labs, which are state-of-the-art facilities supporting end-to-end interoperability and performance testing of SAN products in multi-vendor and large fabric environments. The Brocade Data Center Ready Program boasts an impressive group of members joining the program since its launch in 2000.

Enterprises leverage Riverbed wide area network (WAN) optimization to speed the performance of applications between remote offices, private data centers and mobile workers. Riverbed Steelhead products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. By removing a huge amount of repetitive data from the WAN during disaster recovery (DR) operations, enterprises can dramatically reduce bandwidth requirements, enabling them to protect more data, more quickly. Thousands of enterprises already use Riverbed WAN optimization solutions to accelerate applications and to save bandwidth – and many of them have also deployed the solutions to enable faster data protection, thereby reducing their recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).

“We’ve worked closely with Brocade on product testing to ensure interoperability and simplified product integration that will provide our customers with increased performance. This can significantly reduce the need to upgrade bandwidth – allowing companies to make their current infrastructure more efficient,” said Venugopal Pai, vice president of alliances at Riverbed. “Through ongoing partner engagement and product development we’re continuing to create solutions that address the challenges enterprises encounter during DR operations.”

“We are pleased that Riverbed’s successful completion of the Data Center Ready Program certifies its Steelhead appliance’s interoperability with the Brocade 7500/FR4-18i Blade,” said Patric Chang, director of Strategic Alliances at Brocade. “As storage area networks are being deployed worldwide at a rapid rate, customers now have the added confidence that these technologies can be utilized where appropriate as part of scalable, high-performance networking environments.”