Much of tech innovation last year, especially in the area of cloud computing, centred around throwing away unnecessary hardware and replacing them with software that could do the same job faster and at a lower cost. Finally, the only standing piece of hardware in the tech ecosystem has also been taken over by software. The network itself, which until recently involved plugs and wires, is now also on the software cloud.
Riverbed, the global application performance infrastructure company, has recently launched its SteelConnect solution which helps network managers replace manually configured routers with one-click provisioning of routers through a virtual network.
This simply means that you no longer need to plug in Wide Area Network (WAN) devices and routers at every branch location and assuming you have dozens of them, you do not need to continually monitor them. With Riverbed’s new offering, you have a virtual dashboard that lets you provision, monitor and modify the network at will. With this new software-defined cloud-managed solution, large organisations can expect to save millions of dollars every year just by moving their legacy networks to the cloud.
Says Networking veteran Nagendra Venkaswamy, Vice President, India and South Asia, for Riverbed, “Today, pretty much everything is on the cloud.
Companies — big or small, no longer need to have dedicated server rooms where an IT engineer needs to be provisioned day and night. Most of a company’s computing is done virtually. You only need people to manage the right software. Now, you can use a dashboard to connect networks and modify them.
With such a solution, we are now truly able to perform computing completely on the cloud. While it is a global offering, the solution is heavily targeted at India and the Indian subcontinent to ride on the growth that is exhibited by these areas.”
— IndiaTechOnline
