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collaboration. As we continue to evolve
our mutual offerings to provide increased
value with advanced solutions, we enable
our mutual customers to push boundaries
towards a digital-first business.”
Seamless integration between
Riverbed’s SteelConnect SD-WAN
and Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN
with local branch path steering for
Microsoft Office 365
Through Riverbed’s SD-WAN solution
SteelConnect, customers will now be able
to automate local branch path steering
for Microsoft Office 365 via conventional
Internet broadband. By using the
SteelConnect Manager policy engine and
intuitive graphical interface, users can extend
software-defined policies for steering traffic
for selected applications or digital services,
users or entire locations. SteelConnect
Manager can also be used to connect to
Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN, a global
network backbone for managed site-to-site
and branch-to-Azure connectivity.
This solution is already having an impact
with early adopter customers and partners.
Sword Group, an international consulting,
services and software enterprise is one
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President and General Manager,
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company that is using the integration
between Riverbed SteelConnect and Azure
Virtual WAN.
The announcement builds on Riverbed’s
broader vision to enable unified connectivity
and orchestration across the entire
distributed network. Riverbed SteelConnect is
the industry’s first and only SD-WAN product
that provides unified connectivity and policy-
based orchestration spanning the entire
network – WAN LAN/WLAN, data centre and
the cloud, with one-click connectivity and
optimisation into Microsoft Azure.
Earlier this year, Riverbed announced that
SteelConnect supports Azure ExpressRoute
with automated ‘single-click’ connectivity.
SteelConnect also enables zero-touch
provisioning, allowing an enterprise to
set-up a global network and connect to the
cloud in minutes and easy ongoing network
management that provides the ability to
make quick and easy network or business/
application policy changes.
Riverbed SteelFusion announces
support for Microsoft Hyper-V
Riverbed SteelFusion is extending its
offering for Microsoft Hyper-V customers,
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THROUGH
RIVERBED’S SD-
WAN SOLUTION
STEELCONNECT,
CUSTOMERS WILL
NOW BE ABLE
TO AUTOMATE
LOCAL BRANCH
PATH STEERING
FOR MICROSOFT
OFFICE 365 VIA
CONVENTIONAL
INTERNET
BROADBAND.
further expanding on its ability to provide
enterprises with flexible and secure
architectures, dramatically simplifying
operations at the edge of the network.
Enterprises and organisations who have
selected Hyper-V as their hypervisor of
choice will be able to leverage SteelFusion for
distributed IT and fully realise its software-
defined value, with the flexibility and agility
to instantly deploy and centrally manage
edge services, data and applications to any
number of remote branches and sites.
SteelFusion is an extensible services
platform that uniquely converges an
Intelligent Storage Cache, industry-leading
WAN Optimization and industry-standard
virtualisation into a streamlined and
centrally-managed platform for edge IT.
The solution replaces all traditional edge
infrastructure and enables enterprises
and organisations to modernise remote
IT infrastructure and operations for the
digital age, delivering unprecedented
IT agility, data security and application
performance while allowing the most data-
sensitive organisations to meet compliance
standards required for their industry. To
date, enterprises and organisations across all
industries have replaced older, more complex
edge architectures with SteelFusion for a
more modern approach to edge IT. n
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