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Riverbed Gets Cloudy: Page 2 of 2

While cloud applications and WAN (Wide Area Network if I have to spell it out) acceleration seem like they would go together like Chicken and Waffles running a WAN acceleration appliance, even a virtual one, on your favorite cloud provider's platform would mean you had to keep a VM up, running and ticking off per hour charges all the time. If your cloud application was sending data to a storage provider like Iron Mountain or Nirvanix you wouldn't even have that option. Now Riverbed's Cloud Stee
Howard Marks
November 12, 2010

Riverbed is selling Whitewater as a virtual appliance or as physical appliances with 8 or 16TB of internal disk for cache. Each appliance presents a CIFS/NFS (Common Internet File System/Network File System) interface to the backup application.

The first release of Whitewater supports AT&T Synaptic Storage or Amazon S3 but Riverbed promises to expand to other cloud storage providers, including sending backup data to multiple providers in the future.

Personally I wonder why Riverbed is limiting Whitewater to backup data. Since it has a NAS front end they could also use it for archival data from applications like Enterprise Vault or even as Nasuni has pitch it as a general purpose file server.   

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