Whats the Riverbed Atlas buzz about?
The Atlas appliance is designed to allow organizations to increase their existing primary file storage capacity by up to 10X – without any changes to their existing storage infrastructure. And, when applied to backup data, the improvement can be greater than 20X. The hardware appliances leverage the de-duplication functionality of Steelhead appliances throughout an organization to remove up to 90% of existing data from primary file storage. The Atlas appliance does not store any data – enterprises will continue to use their existing storage infrastructure to do what it does best, which is storing and managing data. The Atlas appliance is designed to help scale existing file storage by enabling customers’ existing file servers to serve more users and deliver a larger amount of data per device. To realize its vision, Riverbed will build on its record of execution with WAN optimization and extend its core technology to data center storage and server infrastructure with its new product fam
