Make those VM backups even FASTER!

Riverbed recently announced that Pancetera has joined the Riverbed Technology Alliance.  

Our friends over at the Pancetera Blog have blogged a couple of times (one and two) about how combining their Pancetera Unite product with Riverbed Steelhead Appliances can deliver even better performance for Virtual Machine and traditional backups across the WAN than either product can alone.  

My favorite quote from their blog is as follows:

A dedicated OC-3 line of 155 Mbps with Pancetera and Riverbed Steelhead will perform better than an OC-12 of 622 Mbps line at a quarter of the cost. Savings of $500,000+ per year provide a near instant ROI.