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Riverbed,
Websense joint solution
ConvergenceAsia staff
04/06/2009
IT infrastructure
performance company Riverbed Technology and integrated Web, data and email
security solutions company Websense, have joined forces to offer enterprise
customers Websense’s Web security solutions combined with WAN optimisation
from Riverbed.
The Websense Web Security solution will be offered on the Riverbed Services
Platform (RSP), a feature of the Steelhead appliance. The companies
anticipate that Websense will offer its Hosted Web Security with Riverbed
solutions in a “hybrid” mode at a later date to provide organisations with
the most comprehensive, flexible and up-to-date security solutions.
Riverbed Steelhead appliance customers will have the flexibility to deploy
Websense Web Security as “on premise” software, as a fully hosted service
for remote workers, or, in an anticipated future release, through a hybrid
hosted “software-as-a-service” model.
This flexibility will allow joint customers to leverage the power of
software-as-a-service (SaaS) to deploy Web security “in the cloud” for
branch offices and remote users with Websense Hosted Web Security quickly
and cost-effectively.
“As we move forward with the next phase of the relationship, customers will
have the choice of appliance, software or SaaS deployment options,” said Ray
Kruck, senior director of business development, Websense.
The Websense and Riverbed joint offering is a powerful security solution
architecture that protects essential information within Web-based
applications and optimises its access and delivery across the distributed
enterprise, he added.
The Riverbed-Websense joint solution will be available through the
companies’ respective resellers and sales forces - RSP from Riverbed and
Websense Web Security through Websense.
Websense Web Security running on the RSP is scheduled to be available in
June of 2009. The future SaaS hybrid deployment options are scheduled to be
available in the first quarter of 2010. |
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