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Forrester - Successfully Consolidating Branch-Office Infrastructure In The Face Of More Users, Services, And Devices
According to Forrester Consulting, today’s enterprises must balance the need to improve efficiencies with the need to support a dynamic...
Download White Paper »Improving Business Value of WAN Optimization - IDC Whitepaper
Want to achieve faster ROI with WAN optimization? Read the latest IDC report and discover how you can cut IT costs without compromising performance, gain greater efficiency, and improve productivity and overall satisfaction.
Download White Paper »The 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 White Paper »Riverbed 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 White Paper »Case 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forest products company Rayonier had too many data centers and was experiencing serious performance issues caused by an out-of-date server infrastructure and a global workforce that numbered over 2,000 employees.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 White Paper »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.
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Increase IT Performance from the Enterprise to the Cloud with WAN Optimization
This paper discusses how Riverbed solutions effectively eliminate IT performance constraints in such environments...
Download White Paper »The Changing Requirements of WAN Optimization
Companies looking to drive greater IT performance will do well to begin their search with WAN optimization, which has evolved into a complete system that provides deep, actionable visibility. Read on to learn how WAN optimization works across the broad range of applications that enterprises use the most.
Download White Paper »ESG - Accelerating Data Migration with WAN Optimization
Migrating large amounts of data over distance can be costly and time consuming. It's also necessary for IT tasks such as remote office backup, data center moves, and cloud computing models. The good news is that WAN optimization gets the job done effectively, efficiently, and affordably. Read this technology brief to learn how.
Download White Paper »Assessing ROI for Mobile Acceleration Clients
This ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA) paper examines the business case for deploying mobile WAN optimization client software and builds a Return on Investment (ROI) model based on the experiences that three organizations have had using Riverbed’s Steelhead Mobile solution. The results indicate compelling ROI with paybacks that can reasonably be expected in six months or less.
Download White Paper »WAN Optimization: The Key to Effective Private Clouds
When it comes to cloud computing, WAN optimization isn’t an option; it’s a necessity. Read this technology brief to learn how addressing network limitations can make the difference between success and failure of a cloud-based system.
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ESG - Accelerating Cloud Performance with WAN Optimization
Today’s smart CIOs are assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each should run—locally or in the public cloud. Read on to learn about the benefits of...
Download White Paper »The CIO's Guide to Optimizing Virtual Desktops
Desktop virtualization promises many benefits, including simplified and standardized desktop support, greater consistency and control, and better security and compliance. But if customers want true desktop virtualization success, they would be well advised to evaluate WAN optimization solutions. Read this white paper to learn how Riverbed solutions can help you realize the full benefits of desktop virtualization.
Download White Paper »Five 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 White Paper »Unleashing 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.
Download White Paper »What'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 White Paper »Case 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 White Paper »ESG - 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.
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Successful Mobility: Access and Performance Anywhere
Learn about ensuring consistent performance and getting the most out of limited connectivity.
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WAN Way or Another: How to Deliver Application Performance
Learn how to accelerate enterprise applications by five, 20, even 100 times.
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A Winning Combination for Success: Consolidation & Virtualization
Learn how you can deploy edge services virtually in all of your branch offices.
View Now »Successful 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.
Listen Now »"With the TCO conversion, we are saving over 1,000,000 Yen per month, and in addition, centralized management has strengthened data security. Service levels, which previously varied at each location, have also improved."
- Yashuhiro Nishikawa, Export of IT Planning & Control, Mitsubishi Motors Corp.
