The recent acquisitions by Riverbed of Aptimize and Zeus (to provide A to Z coverage?) have now been integrated into the Riverbed family. See Riverbed goes shopping for godly web performance for details of the acquisition announcement.
So now as well as the Steelhead WAN optimization appliances, the Whitewater cloud storage optimization appliances, there is now the Stingray product range to add to the mix.
This comprises the Stingray Traffic Manager that frontends web services, and off-loads SSL, caches, and balances traffic. This can be deployed both in the cloud, or in the corporate environment. There’s also the Stingray Application Firewall, which is able to provide web-application firewall capabilities.
Both of these have come from the previous Zeus stable. The Zeus webserver, which has become renowned for it’s ability to perform under load and it’s scalability will no longer be marketed.
The Stingray Aptimzer is from the Aptimize acquisition (the clue might be in the name). This is using the technology to look at the various transfers and to use cached and optimized elements for the transfer. This allows for example (similar to the Redline then Juniper DX devices), the ability to take an image file and optimize it for the receiving device.