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White Paper
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A Proven WAN Optimization Approach
Find out how WAFS, WAN optimization, compression, and Web acceleration technologies have come together into one powerful solution: wide-area data services (WDS). Dive into the technical specifics of WDS and understand how it can accelerate and simplify your IT infrastructure. Download this Taneja Group white paper to get the details now.
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Application Delivery: Everything You Wanted to Know, but Didn't Know You Needed to Ask
IT organizations have two primary functions: application development and application delivery. Within most IT organizations, the application development function is highly formalized. In contrast, within most IT organizations there is typically nascent recognition of the existence of an integrated application delivery function.
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Business Value of Performance IDC Whitepaper
This paper will explain how Riverbed, whose product line, the Steelhead family of appliances, optimizes TCP/IP traffic, addresses these issue with a single wide-area data services (WDS) solution, so that users can enjoy LAN-like access to important data and applications regardless of their location.
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Centralized Data Backup Won't Cripple Your WAN
IT organizations have been conflicted between two backup approaches: local and centralized. While centralized backup requires less hardware, reduces administration time, and solves the security problem associated with loose tape media, it can introduce greater bandwidth consumption and longer backup/restore windows. Because of these issues, centralized backup has been a leap some managers have not been willing to make.
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CIO Bundle
Discover how WDS can help your company remain competitive in a world without boundaries. In these three whitepapers, CIO discusses how WDS can help you remain competitive in a world without boundaries, how to keep remote and mobile workers productive no matter where business happens, and so much more.
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Case Study
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Case Study: Consolidating Exchange Servers
Greenhill Investment Co. discovered that application performance was hindering its Microsoft Exchange consolidation project. Greenhill deployed Riverbed Steelhead to address these concerns, and was able to cut three distributed email servers to a single server. Riverbed also enabled Greenhill to apply additional fault tolerance to their email system by eliminating the need to replicate hardware requirements in remote locations.
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Case Study: Golder Associates
In the case study, you’ll discover how Golder Associates deployed a centralized Intranet portal with a wide-area acceleration solution that delivered LAN-like speed across the WAN.
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Case Study: Steelhead Appliances Accelerate Applications and Improve Collaboration Between Offices
Marvell is the leading global semiconductor provider of complete broadband communications and storage solutions. The Company’s diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure, including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. Headquarted in Sunnyvale, California, Marvell operates major manufacturing sites in the U.S., Asia, and the Middle East.
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LG Electronics Case Study
LG Electronics has tapped into application acceleration as a strategic initiative for their global business. In this analysis, learn how LG used wide-area data services (WDS) to accelerate applications 20x faster and save US$500,000 monthly in network operating costs. Download LG’s case study now to learn the details of their success.
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Podcast
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The Business Impact of Performance
This interview with Peter Sevcik, an industry analyst with NetForecast Analyst Group, will discuss the strategic impact of Wide-area Data Services on your IT strategy.
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Riverbed Steelhead Appliance Podcast
In this Riverbed podcast, Erica Greathouse discusses Cox, Castle and Nichol’s experience with the implementation of the Riverbed Steelhead Appliance within their organization.
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Stop the Insanity: Consolidate Your Distributed IT Infrastructure and Gain Efficiency (Segment 1)
Craig Nelson, Director of IT Services for Avenade Consulting has successfully deployed Wide-area Data Services (WDS) Technology within his production environment, and is seeing great success with it across the organization.
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Stop the Insanity: Consolidate Your Distributed IT Infrastructure and Gain Efficiency (Segment 2)
What`s the difference between Wide Area File Service and Wide-area Data Services? Why should I care? Listen to Yankee Group VP of Research, Zeus Kerravala, explain the complicated world of application acceleration, Wide Area File Service (WAFS), Wide-area Data Services (WDS) and WAN Optimization.
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Stop the Insanity: Consolidate Your Distributed IT Infrastructure and Gain Efficiency (Segment 3)
The old model of deploying local branch office IT is rapidly fading as the costs and complexities of pursuing that approach overtake the benefits.
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Webcast
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Accelerate Disaster Recovery
Accelerating disaster recovery is a requirement in today`s business environment. There is no room for downtime, and lost data is a competitive liability. Learn how advancements in wide-area data services (WDS) can reduce RPOs and RTOs even more. And hear featured customer case studies demonstrating how enterprises are putting these solutions into practice today.
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Accelerate Your Virtual Environment
What`s the connection between virtualization and acceleration? It`s deeper than you might think. Learn how two of today`s hottest technologies complement each other to consolidate infrastructure, enhance disaster recovery strategies, and simplify IT infrastructure globally. We`ll also present real customer case studies so you can see these solutions in practice.
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Backups: Understanding How Performance Matters
Data backups are critical in keeping your company`s information secure, yet network performance often is impacted. How much is it costing when it doesn`t meet its performance goals during backup and recovery? This eSeminar is designed as a technical how-to and the business advantages of changing to disk-based backup.
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Enable Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery with LeftHand Networks and Riverbed Steelhead Solutions
When data drives your business, a reliable disaster recovery solution is a necessity. But even with many terabytes of business-critical data, your DR solution doesn`t need to cost an arm and a leg.
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Enabling IT Consolidation with VMware and Riverbed
Find out how you can have the best of both worlds - a consolidated virtual server infrastructure to reduce costs and complexity, and LAN-like performance for their users around the globe. In addition, a joint VMware/Riverbed customer will discuss the consolidation challenges the company faced and the results of the deployment.
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Survey Results
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The True ROI Behind WDS and WAN Optimization
Looking for solid data behind the cost-savings story of wide-area data services (WDS)? In this paper, NetForecast analysts interviewed customers who have deployed WDS, and the results show that WDS technology has significant strategic business value to companies.
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Research Report
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2007 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report
Riverbed positioned in Leaders Quadrant of 2007 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. Analyzing strengths vs. cautions, Gartner helps organizations looking to acquire WAN Optimization Controller capabilities better understand the options.
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IT Innovation Report
A comprehensive guide to examining the topics of Wide-area Data Services and application acceleration. This paper covers everything from why it is important to consider WDS, the impact on the organization, and helpful step-by-step instructions to testing and implementing a solution.
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ESG Lab Field Audit
This ESG Lab Field Audit documents the success that Riverbed customers have experienced with a focus on configurations and installation experiences, which highlight Riverbed’s ability to compliment existing Cisco networks.
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Review
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Steelhead 500 Revs WAN Links
Deploying Riverbed Technology`s Steelhead 500 caching appliances at branch offices is a good way to expedite remote office users` access to files and applications over a WAN. (eWEEK Review)
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Steelhead Appliances
Riverbed Technology’s Steelhead line of WAN acceleration appliances performed quite well in our tests and continue to be a solid choice for geographically dispersed companies and business partners. (eWEEK Review)
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Technology Brief
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Network Based Backup
One of the greatest IT challenges today is protecting the vast amounts of data stored throughout an organization. Wide-area data services (WDS), an integrated approach to WAN optimization, can accelerate network-based backup by 5x and can reduce bandwidth use by 95%. Download this white paper now to find out how.
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Steelhead Mobile Accelerates Applications Wherever Workers Connect
Steelhead Mobile accelerates enterprise applications for remote users to improve productivity and collaboration for globally distributed teams. Organizations and workers have come to expect a dip in productivity and performance when accessing IT resources remotely, but Steelhead Mobile can help overcome these limitations and deliver LAN-like speed to remote users.
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Product Demo
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Jack Product Demo
Download this demo and discover how everyone, from branch office workers to executives and sales people on the go, get the same LAN-like access to their enterprise applications and data they enjoy when they’re at headquarters.
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Riverbed Technology Demo
WAN acceleration is a complicated topic, with many products offering only partial solutions to WAN performance issues. Want to learn how one technology can accelerate all of your key enterprise applications and help you consolidate IT infrastructure at the same time? View this demo to find out.
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Video
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eWeek Slide Show
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eWEEK Labs Picks the Top Products of 2006
Winner of an eWEEK Excellence Award in the category of Networking Infrastructure, Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances hit all the marks a WAN optimization product should, offering best-in-class bandwidth optimization through highly intelligent data caching, TCP optimization and other protocol-specific enhancements.
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eSeminar
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The Serverless Branch Office: Deploying Branch Services
This webinar, sponsored by Riverbed, will feature Zeus Kerravala, Sr. Vice President of Enterprise Research with the Yankee Group and will discuss industry challenges and trends around effective remote office management. The Webinar will also cover the newly announced RSP and how organizations can leverage this development platform.
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