McAfee and Riverbed announced a partnership
April 2010 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
McAfee, Inc., and Riverbed Technology announced a partnership that delivers a best-of-breed and comprehensive security and wide area network (WAN) optimization solution for organizations with remote offices.
The one-box solution, which will include a virtual instance of McAfee Firewall Enterprise software running on the award-winning Riverbed® Steelhead® appliance, enables enterprises to deliver accelerated data and application access to users while protecting critical information and infrastructure from security threats.
The Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) is a virtualized, extensible data services platform integrated with the Steelhead appliance hardware that allows customers to deploy multiple best-of-breed edge services that formerly required dedicated servers. Customers can deploy virtualized applications, such as McAfee Firewall Enterprise software, directly on the RSP.
McAfee Firewall Enterprise software offers unprecedented levels of threat protection such as VPN for secure site-to-site connectivity, anti-spam, URL and Web content filtering, encrypted traffic inspection, configurable application-level protection, and reputation-based global threat intelligence to block attacks before they occur.
Availability
The joint solution is scheduled to be available in April.