Riverbed Whitewater Appliance is a new product that was introduced in November-2010. It optimizes backups into the cloud, using the same kinds of de-duplication and optimization that Riverbed Steelhead appliances use across the WAN. It brings security (SSL, 256-bit AES), and reduction in the amount of data that flows into the cloud, while keeping a local copy of the backed up data on the appliance. And it works with most current backup applications - NetBackup, Backup Exec etc.
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Whitewater appliances leverage a number of characteristics to deliver optimum performance for accelerating backups to cloud storage.
Deduplication- Industry-leading deduplication eliminates redundant data within backup streams. The Whitewater appliance’s deduplication is byte-based with variable-size dedupe segments. This is more granular than regular fixed or variable block-based deduplication and provides an additional 50-70 percent savings on storage and bandwidth requirements.
Security- The data ingested by Whitewater appliances is secured with 256-bit AES at rest, and with SSL v3 in-flight across the network. This dual layer of security minimizes the risk of data being compromised.
Local storage The Whitewater appliance has a finite-sized disk. This keeps backup data local while it’s replicated to the cloud. Most recent restores come from the appliance, and are also local. If older restores are needed, the data is brought back from the cloud.
Integration- Whitewater appliances integrate with existing backup products and can be mounted as a CIFS or NFS target to the media server. At the backend they write directly to cloud storage via REST/HTTP/SOAP APIs. This is done without any rip-and-replace of existing backup systems, and with minimal configuration changes.
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