by Angela Guess

A new press release reports, “Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, is joining forces with Verizon Enterprise Solutions to deliver an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect Bundle solution to support hybrid architecture deployments. With this solution, enterprise customers can connect their branch offices and data centers to AWS environments through managed, secure and optimized network services. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2016 in Las Vegas, this AWS Direct Connect Bundle combines Riverbed’s industry-leading SteelHeadÔ WAN optimization solution, Verizon’s Secure Cloud Interconnect and Virtual Network Services solutions, and AWS Direct Connect solution into a single offering.”

The release goes on, “As enterprises continue to drive cloud-first strategies, organizations with multiple locations ranging from headquarters to branch offices need to ensure that all of their employees have secure, fast, consistent network access, regardless of their location and device. The increasing mobility of employees, combined with the rise of the hybrid architectures, where applications and data are hosted in both the data center and the cloud, has complicated network traffic and application delivery, adding strain to the traditional network.”

It continues, “As a result, more businesses are transitioning to the cloud to leverage the capacity and cost economics of Internet broadband and complement highly reliable multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) based networks. According to a recent IDC study, wide area networking (WAN) optimization is an increasingly critical element in the realization of hybrid architecture environments for enterprises worldwide. This provides high performance for all applications, whether hosted on-premises or in the cloud.”

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