WAN Optimisation

    Key Benefits

• Acceleration of key enterprise applications
  Riverbed Steelhead products accelerate the broad set of applications important to business. Riverbed application modules, combined with the company’s data streamlining and transport streamlining, deliver dramatic performance increases across the WAN for all TCP applications, by up to 100 times.

• IT infrastructure consolidation and virtualization
  Consolidate file, email and application servers, and storage from remote branches to cut costs and operational complexity without sacrificing performance. Deploy virtual servers, desktops, and applica­tions with reduced bandwidth requirements and response times, improving the end user experience.

• Reduced bandwidth utilization
  Companies that have deployed Riverbed’s Steelhead products typically reduce bandwidth utilization by 60% to 95%, often allowing them to defer costly network bandwidth upgrades.

• Enhanced data protection
  Organizations can eliminate remote backup infrastructure and remediate the risk of data disclosure through lost tapes or media. By speeding data transfer, Riverbed enables speedy, resilient and secure replication and backup over the WAN, often reducing replication times from hours to minutes.

• Secure application acceleration
  Riverbed is the only company that can optimize SSL traffic without compromising the end-to-end trust model. Companies subject to compliance regulations such as SOX, HIPAA, PCI or other security requirements can deliver both performance and security for their applications.

• Visibility and analytics
  Riverbed gives the visibility needed in order to determine where problems exist, analyze how those problems can be addressed, and then tune infrastructure in order to best solve those problems. Com­plete WAN optimization solutions not only provide order of magnitude performance improvements, but the ability to measure and monitor those improvements across optimized locations and other sites that could benefit from further optimization.

• Enable the mobile workforce
  Mobile workers often receive sub-optimal application performance when they connect to resources from remote locations. With Steelhead Mobile, IT can deliver local performance to remote workers wherever they connect.

  IT has often struggled to support remote users who need access to corporate data and applications, and mobile users have come to expect sub-optimal performance when they work remotely. Steelhead Mobile software extends Riverbed’s award-winning technology to any PC or laptop to deliver accelera­tion wherever users connect. With Steelhead Mobile, applications run faster and remote workers are no longer “remote.” Desktop virtualization solutions can also be optimized for use on the WAN.

The Riverbed Difference: Speed, Scalability, Simplicity

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