For providing larger storage capacity to data sets, increase performance and add more replication options, Riverbed Technology(NASDAQ:RVBD) has announced that it has expanded its Whitewater Cloud storage appliance family with the addition of new hardware models and upgrades to its operating system (OS). These enhancements will make the new Whitewater appliances, a component for enterprises wishing to leverage the economical price and reliability of Cloud storage options such as Amazon Glacier.
Enhancements include new Whitewater model appliances with up to triple the cache of previous models and support of up to 14.4 petabytes of logical data. The Whitewater Operating System (WWOS) 3.0 also offers new features, including pairwise replication that enables enterprises to replicate to an additional Whitewater appliance at a secondary location. In addition, enterprises can now leverage the 10-gigabit networking interface that dramatically improves ingest performance.
Our new generation of Whitewater Cloud storage appliances expands scalability and performance to meet customer requirements. In addition to helping customers ingest, protect and store more data, the new WWOS 3.0 features, such as replication, improve customers’ disaster recovery initiatives by offering immediate recovery at a disaster recovery location should their primary system suffer a significant outage, said John Martin, Sr. VP & GM, Storage Delivery Business Unit, Riverbed.
WW0S 3.0 is available as a free upgrade for all existing Whitewater customers.
