What happened to Riverbed Technology?

What happened to Riverbed Technology?

On December 15, 2014, Riverbed announced it would be acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo, LLC and Teachers’ Private Capital, the private investor department of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. The value was estimated at approximately $3.6 billion, and closed in April 2015.

What is the use of Riverbed SteelHead?

SteelHead is the industry’s #1 optimization solution for accelerated delivery of any application across the Hybrid WAN. With SteelHead WAN optimization solutions, you have better visibility into application and network performance and the end user experience.

Who are riverbed competitors?

Competitors and Alternatives to Riverbed

  • Cisco.
  • HPE (Silver Peak)
  • F5.
  • Citrix.
  • FatPipe Networks.
  • Exinda.
  • Allot.
  • Broadcom (Symantec)

How does SteelHead Mobile work?

With a simple software package installed transparently on laptops or desktops, SteelHead Mobile allows mobile workers to be highly efficient and productive. SteelHead Mobile interacts directly with any SteelHead solution to optimize applications. With SteelHead Mobile, remote workers are no longer remote.

Is Riverbed a good company to work for?

Overall a good company to work – Overall team is good. – Every individual including managers are highly technical.

How much does a Riverbed Steelhead cost?

For example, Riverbed Steelhead EXA-560 costs $11,591 while Silver Peak VX software costs $1,675/yr.

What is Riverbed WAN optimization?

Riverbed WAN Optimization solutions helps customers to scale their existing bandwidth and realize more performance and control. They can enjoy up to 20X more effective capacity and accelerate enterprise applications up to 50X. The performance of their WAN is critical to everything customers do.

How does Riverbed SaaS accelerator work?

With a simple, subscription-based software license activation, SaaS Accelerator spins up in the cloud and works in conjunction with any SteelHead appliances at branch sites, or Client Accelerator on workforce laptops. It does not require any changes to the SaaS provider’s infrastructure.

Is Riverbed public?

Riverbed Technology is the latest major tech company to bow out of public trading, announcing a $3.6 billion takeover by private equity firm Thoma Bravo on Monday.

What is Riverbed device?

The Riverbed Network and Application Performance Platform enables organizations to visualize, optimize, accelerate and remediate the performance of any network for any application.

What is Riverbed SaaS accelerator?

SaaS Accelerator is a Riverbed managed service controlled through the SteelConnect Manager that works with Riverbed client-side appliances to accelerate SaaS traffic. The SaaS Accelerator is a replacement for SteelHead Cloud Accelerator with Akamai, which has been renamed to Legacy Cloud Accelerator.

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