Riverbed adds support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, and their newly announced Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN.
The SteelFusion Azure-Ready edge is Riverbed’s first virtualization offering outside the VMware architecture.
Riverbed also provides updates on the status of the Xirrus integration project into SteelConnect – and other integration points.
At their Partner Event. Riverbed highlighted the success of Kentucky-based Tier 3 Technologies, which transitioned from an on-prem VAR to a SteelFusion and SteelCentral-focused MSP in less than three years.
The integration of two companies with fundamentally different partner bases poses specific challenges, but also creates new opportunities.
Riverbed Reach, which was announced at last year’s partner event, went live two months ago, and its enablement of partners’ digital value proposition efforts is already bearing fruit.
Riverbed fills in what they state was the only void in their SteelFusion edge product, and expect this will open up new opportunities and continue the product line’s momentum.
Riverbed is making significant announcements today around its SteelConnect, SteelCentral and SteelFusion product lines.
Making SteelFusion a hybrid cloud solution should significantly expand partner opportunities, including the ability to sell it as a managed service.
