Riverbed has announced the Riverbed Data Express Service, a Software-as-a-Service offering deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) designed to move petabyte-scale datasets at transfer speeds up to 10 times faster than traditional solutions. Riverbed claims this service directly addresses the challenge of migrating large volumes of data across data centers, edge environments, and public cloud platforms to GPU clusters optimized for artificial intelligence workloads.
The Riverbed Data Express Service targets enterprises preparing and deploying AI models that require the transfer of tens of petabytes from geographically dispersed environments. According to Riverbed, conventional data migration approaches can take months, introducing significant delays and increased costs for projects such as large language model training. The new service aims to reduce these transfer timelines from months to days.
Technically, Riverbed describes the service as being built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and leveraging post-quantum cryptography to secure data in transit via virtual private network (VPN) tunnels. Additional technical controls include enterprise-grade access management and the option for organizations to deploy data mover agents within their own tenants for enhanced security.
Specific to data center operators, hyperscale environments, and enterprise AI deployments, Riverbed highlights both speed and security enhancements as central technical features. Broader applications may also include edge and multi-cloud scenarios where accelerated, secure data transfer is required.
“With today’s announcement of the Riverbed Data Express Service, we will be helping customers overcome one of the biggest barriers to AI adoption—getting the right data to the right location, with industry-leading speed and security,” said Dave Donatelli, CEO of Riverbed. Sachin Menon, Vice President, Cloud Engineering at Oracle, added, “With Riverbed Data Express Service deployed on OCI, organizations will be able to accelerate time to value, reduce costs, and help ensure that their data remains protected.”
Riverbed reports that Data Express Service will be generally available in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Source: Riverbed
