[May 09, 2013] Riverbed Granite seeks EMC E-Lab qualification Tweet May 09, 2013 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) -- Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD) said its Riverbed Granite storage delivery solutions are expected to receive EMC E-Lab qualification with EMC VNX in the second quarter of 2013, enabling customers to extend the benefits of the data centre to global branch offices. The award-winning Riverbed Granite storage delivery solutions consolidate edge data to the secure data centre, while delivering local performance and data access to branch offices. This approach improves security, data protection, and performance, all while reducing the total cost of ownership of branch infrastructure. This news builds upon EMC E-Lab qualifying Riverbed Granite 1.0 with EMC VMAX in 2012. EMC E-Lab conducts one of the industry's most rigorous interoperability testing, qualifying configurations featuring EMC and third-party hardware and software, spanning major platforms and operating systems. Using its resources, E-Lab also tests and qualifies leading-edge cloud, big data, and application mobility solutions so that enterprises can quickly and efficiently deploy and transform its data centers. EMC World is a conference for attendees to learn about software-defined storage, applications and databases, backup, recovery and archiving, big data and analytics, business continuity and disaster recovery, cloud computing, IT transformation, mainframe environments, momentum/information intelligence, security and compliance, storage and IT management, storage federation, storage platforms, and virtualization. More information about EMC World is available at http://www.emcworld.com/. Riverbed Technology, Inc. provides solutions to the fundamental problems associated with information technology (IT) performance across wide area networks (WANs) in the United States and internationally. The company's website is at http://www.riverbed.com Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected] [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]