WAN Optimization
IT organizations at globally connected enterprises are charged with delivering highly efficient and secure IT, while providing a rich experience to end users at the edge. Private and public clouds offer the promise of flexibility, but come with performance barriers caused by distance between users and their data. Riverbed WAN optimization and visibility solutions are enabling globally connected enterprises the anytime, anywhere IT performance they demand – without requiring changes to their existing infrastructure.
White Papers
2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report
Riverbed is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. In this report, Gartner evaluates vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision.
Download this white paper nowForrester - Successfully Consolidating Branch-Office Infrastructure In The Face Of More Users, Services, And Devices
Forrester Consulting recently analyzed the requirements for consolidating branch office infrastructures while simultaneously supporting the demands of emerging business goals. After surveying over 200 IT decision-makers from global enterprises, it was determined that WAN optimization is a key ingredient. In order to achieve maximum benefit, organizations are also advised to choose a vendor that can provide an active combination of control, monitoring, and optimization. Riverbed Technology is one such vendor. Read the whitepaper to learn more.
Download this white paper nowCase Study - Rayonier
Leading international forest products company Rayonier had too many data centers and was experiencing serious performance issues caused by an out-of-date server infrastructure and a global workforce that numbered over 2,000 employees. It needed help and fast, so it turned to Riverbed. This case study looks at how Riverbed helped Rayonier install a centralized cloud model that enabled a simpler, more secure infrastructure, improve application performance by up to 18 times, and more.
Download this white paper nowAccelerating The Cloud
To stay competitive and keep costs down, today's enterprises need to consolidate resources, quickly provision services, and more effectively rationalize costs with new business models. If done correctly, cloud computing can help solve these problems, and further help IT managers maintain business-critical applications and data. But there are numerous challenges that can prevent organizations from succeeding with cloud initiatives. This solution brief addresses those limitations, and looks at how Riverbed Technology helps you overcome them.
Download this white paper nowFive Steps to Successful IT Consolidation
Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful.
Download this white paper nowThe CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure
Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster.
Download this white paper nowHow to Address the Two Key Challenges with Virtualization
How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise — and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. In this paper, we examine the trends toward server consolidation and virtualization, and how WAN optimization can help IT organizations like yours solve the key challenges of application performance and information availability within these environments.
Download this white paper nowCase Study - Psomas
Psomas is a leading consulting engineering firm offering services for private companies and government agencies in the water transportation and land development markets. As a high-growth firm, Psomas needed to accelerate application performance to accommodate a changing set of demands from the business as well as employees. They needed to overcome frustrating delays that were hindering project collaboration and work sharing, avoid mishaps with miscommunication among employees, and at the same time deploy technology that could keep up with their pace of growth. After considering bandwidth upgrades and point products, Psomas decided to go with the Riverbed Steelhead solution. With Riverbed Steelhead products deployed worldwide, their employees can now share work and leverage resources wherever they happen to be.
Download this white paper nowCase Study - Constangy
Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP, found an opportunity to improve the efficiency of their IT infrastructure across their whole enterprise with the adoption of a cloud computing strategy. They were able to consolidate and virtualize many different servers, and eliminate the expense and difficulty of remotely managing the hardware and software. Significant cost savings were achieved in both capital outlay for a planned server replacement and in monthly operating expenditures of their servers and network. This was achieved without any degradation of the end user experience, in fact, it improved collaboration and also enabled them to roll out additional capabilities such as IP telephony without having to upgrade the wide area network (WAN) connections to the many different sites. Additional secondary benefits like improved disaster recovery and a "greener" infrastructure were also realized upon implementation.
Download this white paper nowESG - Avoiding the Hazards of IT Consolidation
In an effort to reduce costs and streamline operations, today's large, distributed organizations are investing more in data center transformation, consolidation, and server virtualization. And yet many IT consolidation projects suffer from poor planning and implementation issues that ultimately impact application performance and user productivity. This technology brief investigates the processes and tools that are needed to provide complete enterprise visibility and WAN acceleration for high-priority traffic.
Download this white paper nowIncrease IT Performance from the Enterprise to the Cloud with WAN Optimization
WAN optimization plays an important role in today's highly distributed datacenters and cloud computing architectures. Massive consolidation and data mobility, enabled by virtualization, have radically altered how we build servers, design applications, and deploy storage for the emerging "cloud" decade. This paper discusses how Riverbed solutions effectively eliminate IT performance constraints in such environments.
Download this white paper nowWhat's Needed for Cloud Computing
Just what is cloud computing anyway? Skeptics might say it is nothing but industry hyperbole, visionaries might say it is the future of IT. In reality, both statements are true-cloud computing has been embellished by the tech industry, but it does hold real potential for new types of on-¬-demand dynamic IT services. This paper seeks to clarify the definition of cloud computing, identify how far along users are in terms of cloud deployment, and examine the role of the network in the cloud computing model.
Download this white paper nowRiverbed Services Platform Feature Brief
Consolidation and virtualization are hot trends in IT, helping organizations increase their flexibility in delivering valuable services and reduce costs. The enhanced Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP) provides customers with the capability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance. This revolutionary approach allows customers to deploy local services in all their branch offices without the need to deploy and maintain full-blown servers to run the applications. The business benefits are minimizing the hardware needed at the branch office, enabling companies to consolidate IT operations even further, reducing costs, and simplifying administration, all while still delivering high quality local services. Read this Feature Brief for more information.
Download this white paper nowA Standard Branch Office IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate
Want a standard IT platform that delivers network optimization and virtualization to the branch office? Look no further. In this report, Forrester investigates the reasons why you should consider WAN optimization solutions as the best way to gain better IT performance, cost savings, and greater flexibility for your business. And it's also a smart network improvement investment over the long-term. Get the facts about WAN optimization in this study.
Download this white paper nowUnleashing Cloud Performance
Want to free yourself from the spiraling cost and complexity of your current IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by giving you three key strategies for delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance to end users and IT managers alike. In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can break the cloud performance barrier and deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.
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The Real Story Behind Virtualization: How to Avoid the Hype and Reap the Benefits
The success organizations have had with server virtualization projects have led others to identify additional initiatives with which to reap these benefits and consider moving to virtual desktops as they begin desktop and OS refresh cycles. But how do you separate promise from reality? Watch this webinar and learn how to avoid the pitfalls that can doom your virtual desktop projects, and more.
Download this white paper nowSuccessful IT Consolidation
Consolidating branch offices can be an efficient strategy, but you must know when it makes sense to consolidate all or part of the branch office. This podcast covers the rules of thumb for successful IT consolidation and explains the top 3 challenges for IT.
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