Riverbed White Paper Sample

Branch offices are likely to have a WAN optimization solution in place — if not now, soon, according to nearly half of respondents. The WAN optimization appliance provides two benefits. It helps usher in the new suite of services, applications, and tools IT is adopting by diminishing branch bandwidth requirements and reducing remote site latency. This same appliance, when empowered with the ability to virtualize servers on its hardware, can provide a standard IT platform allowing consolidation to take place not only by centralizing data in the data center but also by virtualizing servers and applications in the branch.