SteelFusion Reviews

Name: SteelFusion
Brand: Riverbed
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

4.5 out of 5

2 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is SteelFusion?

Riverbed SteelFusion is the first and only hyper-converged infrastructure for branch IT, enables 100% consolidation of branch data and servers from remote sites into data centers, delivering complete data security and centralized data protection, without compromising on any of the benefits of running branch services locally for your users. SteelFusion eliminates the need for physical servers, storage and backup infrastructure at branch locations, creates the ability to instantly provision and recover branch services, and provides full visibility and superior performance of on-premises and cloud-based applications, leading to dramatic increases in data security, business continuity, agility and operational efficiency.

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SteelFusion is the #27 ranked solution in HCI Software. PeerSpot users give SteelFusion an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. SteelFusion is most commonly compared to Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI): SteelFusion vs Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI).

Buyer's Guide

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August 2025

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SteelFusion mindshare

As of August 2025, the mindshare of SteelFusion in the HCI category stands at 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

HCI Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SteelFusion	0.2%
VxRail	17.0%
VMware vSAN	14.4%
Other	68.4%

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"Sync to Central and edge protection mitigate my risk in our branch offices. All services that need to be local to the user exist on local servers. Users run applications and access data locally while the data is constantly being synced to Central, and protected. If an edge device fails, we can recover quickly."

Room for Improvement

"Setting up disks for use is a multi-step process that could use some refinement. Setting up a core-to-core replication or DR strategy is also cumbersome."

Pricing

"Price is an issue – this is expensive stuff. My advice is to beat up Riverbed as much as possible on price. These things are expensive and there is room for negotiation."

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