Public, private, and hybrid cloud environments all face the same performance limitations of today’s applications and networks. To maximize the flexibility and savings of the public cloud, you must first overcome the same latency and bandwidth constraints that challenge distributed IT infrastructure environments.

Riverbed cloud services help transform the cloud into an extension of the data center. SteelHead-c virtual appliances accelerate the migration of data and applications to the cloud, while speeding access to that data from anywhere. Compatibility with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and VMware ESX-based cloud environments eliminates vendor lock-in.

As you migrate services to the cloud, and later broaden your application and data footprint there, SteelHead-c virtual appliances ensure you will meet application performance service level agreements (SLAs), regardless of network latency and enterprise bandwidth limitations, to ensure seamless public-cloud integration through features like: