Riverbed Technology has announced upcoming enhancements to its Mobile WAN optimization solution to address the productivity challenges global organizations face when managing remote and mobile workforces. Riverbed Steelhead Mobile increases employee productivity while on the road, working from home or connected wirelessly in the office by providing application performance improvements. With this release, Riverbed aims to provide acceleration for Windows 7 and 64-bit systems for mobile end users.
"As companies focus on consolidating their data through private cloud initiatives, the distance between their employees and critical data is growing--employees are becoming more mobile, working from a variety of locations outside of the office. This means that as centralization of data and IT infrastructure continues, remote access is becoming more of a challenge," said Eric Wolford, Senior Vice President- Marketing and Business Development, Riverbed.
Steelhead Mobile 3.0 introduces enhancements that allow organizations to provide their mobile workers with better access and performance, eliminating slow performance as a barrier to mobility, the company said.
With Steelhead Mobile 3.0, Riverbed introduces Branch Warming, which according to the company will allow mobile and branch office users to share optimized data and experience even greater overall acceleration. By sharing the data references between the data stores of the Steelhead Mobile client and the branch office Steelhead appliance, mobile workers not only take advantage of all of the optimization benefits of the Steelhead appliance but are also able to contribute data references from their data store to help improve performance for the entire branch office, enabling warm performance regardless of location, said the company.
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