Riverbed Technology has introduced new Steelhead Mobile capabilities that reportedly allow organisations to deploy a mobile WAN optimisation product with increased scalability.
The company is also introducing Steelhead Mobile Controller-Virtual Edition (SMC-VE), an increased capacity for the Steelhead Mobile Controller (SMC) appliance and additional application-level latency optimisation for Steelhead Mobile.
According to the company, Mobile WAN optimisation can help companies improve the performance of applications for remote workers. For large Steelhead Mobile deployments and growing organisations, the company offers the Steelhead Mobile Controller appliance to allow IT managers deploy Steelhead Mobile to all of their remote workers. It has also expanded the scalability of its Steelhead Mobile product, including the new SMC-VE and additional license capacity on the appliance.
The company is introducing SMC-VE, which is expected to make acceleration accessible to SMBs. SMC-VE is a virtual package deployed on the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP), a virtualised platform that resides on the Steelhead appliance that is said to allow customers to run up to five additional services and applications in a protected partition on the appliance.
The company noted that by increasing the total license capacity of the appliance-based SMC for the largest enterprises, the SMC can manage 2,000 additional licenses for a total of 4,000 licenses with no additional hardware. Also, the company is announcing support for application layer Lotus Notes acceleration for mobile users. This capability allows mobile employees to access large email attachments and manage calendaring, allowing collaboration across dispersed geographical locations.
Alan Saldich, vice president of product marketing at Riverbed, said: As people move to centralise their data and employees continuously move around the globe to conduct business, organisations of all sizes will be challenged with application latency and reduced employee productivity.
We continue to enhance our WAN optimisation solution to help companies overcome these specific challenges. These new Steelhead Mobile capabilities will allow us to provide both the smallest and largest companies with the ability to increase mobile worker productivity at a lower total cost of ownership.
