Over 400 layoffs across all organizations, CTO and his engineering leads in steelhead and steel fusion all leaving the company. Good luck if you are a riverbed customer.
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Riverbed SteelFusion is over priced and poorly engineered. I regret the day we implemented it as Granite. Newer versions have slightly improved, but never rectified the fact that this is not an enterprise ready product. Virtual Core implementation is horrible for FC, even worse under HA and immensely complex. Never ending problems including failed backups, failed recoveries. Worst is disappearing LUNs which plague the product. LUNs that can not be recovered to the remote branches. Still using slow SATA drives! - We are looking at EMC CloudArray or just RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. Our typical branch server is about $3-4k with 3 year warranty. Fusion is $20k with 1 year support plus all the stuff we need to buy at the DataCenter makes it about $30k per site.