Despite challenges involved in programming the many possibilities, the tool was developed in a matter of weeks. It needed to be intuitive and easy to understand. For that, EXIN reached out to the community on LinkedIn, a popular social network for professionals, who then had an opportunity to test and provide feedback on the tool. Their input resulted in a better design and user-friendliness as well as additional functions such as the possibility to embed the calculator on other websites.
Whitewater cloud storage gateways provide fast, drop-in access to the major public cloud storage providers with local-like performance and connect directly to most popular backup tools. With the introduction of Whitewater cloud storage gateway models 510, 710 and 2010, Riverbed enables a wider range of enterprises and federal agencies to significantly reduce storage requirements by embracing the benefits of cloud storage for data protection.
“As enterprises increase their use of server virtualization and implement other strategic IT initiatives, the growth and the sheer volume of data present a greater challenge for data protection strategies. With these new Whitewater models, Riverbed provides a data protection solution that helps organizations accelerate recovery times, drive down the cost of backup and improve disaster recovery (DR).”
We’ve always been a company that’s been about trying to get new kinds of hardware and software out there and letting people play with them and take them in directions you’d never imagine,” Schofield says. “Kinect is a new kind of device, but I really think it follows in a long, consistent history of Microsoft trying to put things out there.
