Riverbed has announced a new version of its operating system for Whitewater cloud storage gateway appliances as well as a new model designed for handling larger backup data workloads.
Built to deliver enterprise-grade performance, users with appliances running version 2.0 of the Whitewater Operating System (WWOS) should see improvements around scalability and simplified management.
The latest version of the platform is supposed to better meet critical backup requirements while aiming to overcome any challenges presented by growth of large amounts of data.
Some of the new features incorporated in WWOS 2.0 include:
Thus, the new Whitewater model 3010 appliance also being unveiled on Monday is touted to offer four times more local disk storage capacity and twice the amount of RAM than previous Riverbed cloud storage gateway appliances.
With larger-scale enterprise customers in mind, Whitewater 3010 is supposed to offer customers with better data protection as well as the opportunity to implement low cost backup storage tiers at pay-for-use cloud storage rates.