Riverbed Technology has made a number of announcements regarding Amazon Web Services Inc.’s storage, backup, and recovery services.
The company, which specialises in network and application performance solutions, launched last month a native AWS version for its SteelStore cloud storage solution. SteelStore for AWS can be used to backup and recover AWS workloads and to create new backup solutions.
Riverbed announced that SteelStore physical and virtual appliances can be used on-premises to ensure data is protected securely in the cloud. “If the primary site is not available, organizations can quickly spin-up SteelStore and recover data to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. (Amazon EC2).
SteelStore for AWS aims to help organizations take advantage of cloud to cloud resiliency. This is the practice of moving production workloads to one cloud while maintaining high availability.
Riverbed Product Marketing Manager Rachel Dines stated that it is better to keep a critical workload protected in the cloud than to bring it back on-premises. This could mean protecting it within the same cloud provider but seperating copies by region, log in credentials, [and so forth]. It could also mean data protection across multiple cloud providers.
SteelStore for AWS is available in three versions. They provide 4TB, 8TB, or 16TB of usable storage and 1.2PB to 2.5PB or 5PB of managed logical storage.
Riverbed recently announced an offer to AWS customers that would grant them free access the virtual SteelStore edition. The Riverbed virtual SteelStore 8TB solution was launched last week. It allowed qualified applicants to use it at no cost for six month, and they could get up to 48TB Amazon S3 storage. According to Jeff Barr, AWS evangelist, the offer is designed to “help qualified enterprise and midmarket customers in North America kick-start cloud-storage projects.”
Riverbed states that the offer is only available for a short time, between Sept. 9-Oct. 9, and not everyone who signs up during that period will be eligible.
