Riverbed upgrades set sights on the SD-WAN edge, cloud integration

At Riverbed’s Disrupt event in New York’s upscale Conrad Hotel today, the company announced new products designed to help customers move their enterprise network more fully into the cloud arena.
At the heart of the announcements, Version 2.0 of Riverbed’s SteelConnect software-defined WAN product which adds router capabilities to the gateway hardware for the first time, letting users replace legacy routers.
Version 2.0 also integrates SteelCentral – the company’s a