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[bgilbert]

Thanks Mark. Also, under application acceleration, I understand that RiOS 4.1 improves disaster recovery environments? What does this entail?

[mday]

As far as we know, neither Cisco nor Juniper has anything like this capability. So we've added to the set of application-specific optimizations that are available from Riverbed but not from those folks.

[bgilbert]

Mark, the Oracle 11i E-Business suite of applications presents a pretty big footprint in the world of enterprise application deployments. Is this unique to Riverbed or stated another way, does Cisco and Juniper support this?

[mday]

It turns out that JInitiator traffic has a kind of scrambling or obfuscation applied. It's not really encryption, but it was probably intended to implement some kind of information hiding. As you know, part of the data streamlining in Steelheads looks for repeated patterns in traffic, and so this quasi-encryption foiled older versions of RiOS by making identical transfers look different. RiOS 4.1 undoes the scrambling so as to expose the underlying data for optimization. After transferring the information in an optimized form and undoing the optimization, RiOS 4.1 then re-applies the scrambling so that the client and server are unaffected by the optimization.

[bgilbert]

Mark, what does the application acceleration for the Jinitiator traffic entail?

[mday]

We added application acceleration for JInitiator "native" traffic. JInitiator is an Oracle-specific Java virtual machine (JVM) whose typical use is in Oracle 11i E-Business Suite applications.

[bgilbert]

Before we get started, I wanted to remind everyone that the following discussion is live so please remember to refresh your browser screen every 30 to 60 seconds so that you may follow the posts.

Also, if you have questions during this discussion, please hold your questions until the end and submit your question then.

Now for the discussion covering RiOS 4.1!

Riverbed recently released a software update to its Steelhead appliances. The RiOS 4.1 software update provides features that address application acceleration, scalability, and security.

I would like to welcome Dr. Mark Day, Riverbed s Chief Scientist, to help shed some light onto what is included with this new release.

Welcome Mark.

Mark, let s start with application acceleration. What features in RiOS 4.1 cover application acceleration?

[bgilbert]

With the release of RiOS 4.1, an update to the software that powers Riverbed's Wide-area Data Services appliances, Riverbed continues to innovate with features that provide additional speed, scalability, and security.

A live discussion took place in this forum area October 29 at 11am PDT with Dr. Mark Stuart Day, Riverbed's Chief Scientist as he shared the details of the feature-set that comes with Riverbed's latest software release.

Please feel free to continue this discussion by submitting your feedback and/or questions by replying to this post.