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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