Riverbed Technology has announced that they will continue to partner with VMware to help enterprises accelerate their journey to the cloud. The partnership is designed to help enable businesses to increase efficiency and improve productivity while reducing costs. With the latest collaboration, Riverbed wide area network (WAN) optimisation solutions accelerate virtual machines (VMs) moving between clouds-private, public and hybrid-with VMware vCloud Connector. The combination of Riverbed and VMware solutions are designed to help enable cloud service providers to maximise their cloud computing offerings by empowering their customers to utilise their existing IT investments. "Businesses all over the world are turning to virtualisation and cloud computing to simplify their IT infrastructure, consolidating, and moving applications to the cloud," said Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware.