Riverbed Technology has announced that it will be participating at the upcoming GITEX Technology Week under the theme ‘Experience the future of networking.’
The vendor intends to unveil its latest Riverbed SteelConnect and SteelCentral, and Riverbed SteelFusion solutions. Through its collaboration with Microsoft, Riverbed will also showcase its solutions for optimisation and visibility for the highly popular Office 365, SharePoint and Azure platforms.
Earlier this year, Riverbed introduced SteelConnect, the industry’s first and only product to unify network connectivity and orchestration of application delivery across hybrid WANs, remote LANs and cloud networks. SteelConnect 2.0 which will be launched at GITEX includes new platform integrations, native dynamic routing, and support for large-scale deployments.
Taj ElKhayat, Regional Vice President, Middle East and Africa, said, “SD-WAN represents the future of networking and is a market that will rapidly grow to US$6 billion in 2020. Riverbed is at the forefront of this technology revolution and we will use GITEX as a platform to educate attendees on how this approach can solve the complexity in hybrid clouds and networks, improve efficiency and flexibility and enable them to easily shift workloads and deploy new applications and services.”
In addition to its own stand at GITEX, Riverbed will also have a presence at Microsoft’s booth as a platinum level sponsor, where it will showcase demonstrations for its SteelHead and SteelCentral AppInternals 10 solutions to support Microsoft customers as they embrace their journey into the cloud while achieving visibility, optimisation, and control. “We will deliver live demonstrations to explain how customers can enhance their experience with the Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform through the optimisation that our integrated SteelHead solution delivers,” explained Elkhayat. “For customers, the process of adopting Riverbed’s technology has been simplified as Riverbed SteelHead CX subscriptions are available on the Microsoft Azure marketplace.”
A regular participant at GITEX, Riverbed believes its presence helps drive its engagement with new and existing customers and partners, as well as reinforce its position as the leading application performance provider to enterprises across the region. “GITEX is by far the biggest trade show of its kind in the region and we will make every effort to foster fruitful engagements with customers and partners that lead to mutually beneficial partnerships through the rest of the year,” said Elkhayat.
Attendees can meet technical and sales professionals from Riverbed at its stand CLD-16 in Hall 4 and at the Microsoft stand.
