Review: Riverbed brings branch office storage back to the data center

By Keith Schultz

March 21, 2014 09:21 AM ET

Infoworld - Usually when someone talks about "collapsing" something, images of toppling towers, imploding buildings, tumbling bridges, and other destruction come to mind. But when IT organizations are able to collapse server and storage resources back to the data center by removing hardware and admin chores from remote offices, that's a good thing.

Riverbed Technology, well known for its WAN acceleration and optimization solutions, also offers a way to collapse branch office server and storage resources back to the data center while making it seem as if those resources were still living in the remote office.

[ Riverbed Granite is an InfoWorld 2014 Technology of the Year Award winner -- read about all of the 2014 Technology of the Year Award winners. | Get the latest practical info and news with Paul Venezia's The Deep End blog and InfoWorld's Data Center newsletter. ]

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