Download - Datacenter Transformation

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Steelhead Product LaunchOctober 2012

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What is New?BRANCH AND MOBILE USERS

DATA CENTERS

Steelhead Mobile 4.0

Steelhead EX and Granite

Steelhead 5055 &7055 Appliances

RiOS 8.0

Announcing Steelhead Product Family HW and SW at Interop New York on October 3rd, 2012

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Evolving Steelhead Product Family

Enabling the global enterprise to better address the scale and consolidation needs of their data center

transformation initiatives

Industry Leading WAN Optimization Platform

ScaleConsolidate

RiOS 8.0

Mobile 4.0Steelhead EX & GraniteSteelhead 5055/7055

Appliances

Agile Service Delivery

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Extending the Virtual Edge of the datacenter to the branch

Steelhead EX

Granite

• Instant branch provisioning and recovery with VM boot over-the-WAN capability in a single box

• High availability of branch storage between a pair of Steelhead EX devices (with integrated Granite)

• Failover in the branch and datacenter through multiple paths to the backend storage• Enhanced support of prefetch from VMFS partitioned datastore

• VMware vSphere 5.0 integrated (SW upgrade for the existing EX models)• Central management of VMs by VMware vCenter

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Scale and Optimize Mobile Users- Steelhead Mobile 4.0

Enabling large scale deployments

Extend email optimization to mobile workers

• Optimizing Microsoft Windows environments• Optimizing MS Outlook Clients connecting to Exchange servers over Internet• CIFs application optimization• Optimizing Kerberos authenticated applications

• Scale out to support up to 120,000 mobile users (up to 30 nodes per cluster)• Flexible and scalable management through SMC license clustering• High availability management through SMC failover across datacenter

Ease of provisioning and management• Simplified policy configuration• Interactive graphs

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Scale the network at the speed of your business - Steelhead CX7055 and CX5055

Enabling large scale deployments

Industry leading storage performance

• Unmatched performance with highest capacity SSD-based WAN Optimization Controller

• Supports up to 1 million connections for seamless network performance scalability and lower TCO

• Scale up to 50% more throughput and connection in a single box

Improved price/performance• More WAN capacity• More connections• Faster hardware (New SSD-based appliances, faster CPUs, more memory)• All of these features at a better price compared to the previous generation products

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Enhanced QoS and Scale

Increased Security and Compliance

• New Password policy settings for administrative access• Stronger protection against unauthorized access, ensures user accounts are not

vulnerable to being hacked• Protects Steelhead from unauthorized Network Time servers

• Scale application prioritization to over 600 applications• Extend VDI optimization with PCoIP application prioritization • Doubling the rules/classed supported on Steelhead with higher performance DPI

Improved management streamlining

Technology enabler for Software Defined Data Centers– RiOS 8.0

• Improved interactive new reporting features• Updated graphical time-based reports for networking, diagnostic, and optimization

reports