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Riverbed Technology is the IT infrastructure performance
company for networks, applications and storage. The
Riverbed family of WAN optimization solutions liberates
businesses by increasing application acceleration,
enabling IT consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide
network and application visibility – all while eliminating
the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers.
Thousands of companies trust Riverbed to deliver greater
productivity and cost savings by making their IT infrastructure
faster, less expensive and more responsive.
WAN Optimization
Given the importance of anytime, anywhere application
access, IT departments are turning to WAN optimization
to improve and accelerate application performance across
the wide-area network (WAN). Using WAN optimization,
IT can provide LAN-like access to data and applications
anywhere throughout the enterprise network, enabling
real-time collaboration for users in branch offices
and mobile workers all over the world.
Riverbed is the pioneer and market leader in WAN optimization-
the first comprehensive solution to a host of severe
problems that plague enterprise applications operating
across the WAN including:
- Poor application performance
- Insufficient, expensive or congested network bandwidth into remote offices
- Difficulties in IT consolidation
- Challenges with slow remote data backup and replication
- Increasing demands of the mobile workforce
Application Acceleration
Many enterprises believe that the key to application
acceleration is WAN optimization. But optimizing the
network - via compression, QoS, or TCP optimization
- is only one part of the solution needed to truly
improve application performance across the network.
Unlike other approaches to application acceleration,
Riverbed's WAN optimization solutions can provide dramatic
application performance increases - typically by five
to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times faster
- across the broad range of applications that enterprises
care about the most.
IT Consolidation
Whether an organization is focused on consolidating
file servers, email servers, SAN or NAS devices, or
remote tape backup libraries, WAN optimization solutions
will accelerate application performance typically by
five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times
over the WAN, and reduce WAN bandwidth utilization
typically by 60 to 95%. These application performance
improvements ensure that remote users can successfully
access consolidated data and applications, while the
resulting WAN bandwidth optimization ensures IT managers
that they can minimize or altogether delay additional
bandwidth investments. Users will feel as if they are
getting the performance of a local infrastructure,
while the organizations get the benefits of an IT infrastructure
that is consolidated: such as lower costs, more security,
and eased regulatory compliance.
- File Server consolidation: Consolidating file servers reduces complexity, increases efficiency, and reduces risk
- Email consolidation: Consolidating Exchange servers simplifies management and upgrades of Exchange
- Consolidating NAS: Reduces the risk and improves the security of distributed data storage
- Centralized Remote Backup: Improves security and reliability while reducing the costs on WAN-based backup
Using Riverbed, organizations can consolidate all
types of servers from a branch office with one simple
plug and play appliance. They can greatly reduce the
cost and complexity of remote office infrastructure
while guaranteeing the performance that end users need.
Riverbed Cascade
Riverbed Cascade is a unique tool for network visibility
and analysis. Cascade provides businesses with an application-level
view of their networks and servers. Using network behavioral
analysis, Cascade can trend typical behavior and proactively
alert you to issues in your environment, assess the best places
for WAN optimization investment, and assist in consolidation efforts.
Deployed only in the data center, this probe-free solution is the
cost effective way for IT to ensure investments are aligned with
business priorities.
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