Converged Infrastructure in the Branch: Riverbed Granite Becomes SteelFusion
(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)
With today’s rebranding of Riverbed Granite as SteelFusion, Riverbed is prodding all branch IT owners (and vested users) to step up and consider what branch IT should ideally look like. Instead of a disparate package of network optimization, remote servers and storage arrays, difficult if not foresworn data protection approaches, and independently maintained branch applications and IT support, simple converged SteelFusion edge appliances sit in the branch to provide local computing performance but work on “projected” data that is actually consolidated and protected back in the data center.
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