Riverbed & Akamai SaaS Acceleration

Riverbed & Akamai: Accelerating Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Environments


Today’s enterprises are increasingly adopting public cloud computing services to avoid costly infrastructure build-out, and to bring efficiency to business models such as software as a service (SaaS). As a result, business applications in the cloud, having once resided within the corporate network, are being accessed over an often unpredictable public Internet.

In May 2011, Akamai and Riverbed announced their intention to develop a joint solution that leverages a combination of Internet optimisation and WAN optimisation to overcome the performance, availability, scalability and security issues introduced by this hybrid network environment. The solution is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2012 and will allow customers to extend their Steelhead WAN optimisation to SaaS applications such as Office 365, Salesforce.com, and Google Apps.

Watch Video: Riverbed Evangelist Bob Gilbert Introduces the New Technology and Service From Riverbed & Akamai