When Riverbed and others brought WAN acceleration to the market around the turn of the century, many of us hoped that with WAN acceleration we could pull the servers, and the headaches they cause, from branch offices. Unfortunately many organizations found reasons to keep servers in the branches. Riverbed’s new Granite appliance allows organizations to keep servers in their branch offices while eliminating many of the headaches through what Riverbed’s calling Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure.
Network Computing