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White Papers
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Accelerating Secure Networks for the Federal Government
Accelerating Secure Networks for the Federal Government (Riverbed security features and capabilities) -Wan Op -Identifying Security is a concern for all enterprises. Organizations in many industries - from government to financial services to healthcare - have to protect sensitive information, and in many cases comply with specific regulations to ensure the proper safeguarding of data. Recent security breaches have fueled significant growth in the number of security offerings and standards in the marketplace. This paper explores WAN optimization leader Riverbed Technology's secure WAN optimization capabilities in more detail.
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An In-Depth Look at ROI
In this economy, as IT budgets remain flat or get reduced, doing more with the infrastructure you have has never been more important. But is investing more money in the same old networking infrastructure wise? In this white paper, Riverbed discusses its compelling and powerful return on investment in hard dollars, and a way to leap past the obstacles preventing you from reaching your IT objectives.
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Centralized Data Backup and Your WAN
Is your organization prepared to tackle the massive challenge of protecting your data in a cost effective and timely manner? With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with WAN optimization solutions.
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Data Storage in the Cloud - Can you Afford Not To?
Storing data in the cloud overcomes what is becoming a serious challenge for IT departments: how to manage the vast, and ever-growing, amount of data that must be protected. This paper makes the business case for cloud storage, outlining where capital and operational costs can be eliminated or avoided by using the cloud for backup and archive storage.
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EMA Radar for Application-Aware Network Performance Management Q3 2010: Riverbed Vendor Profile
According to industry analyst Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), Riverbed Cascade stacks up extremely well against the competition. How well? In particular, Cascade outperforms other application-aware network performance management solutions in such important areas as product strength and cost efficiency. Read the EMA whitepaper to get the full story.
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Case Studies
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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.
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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. Download this case study to learn more.
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Case Study: Gensler
When San Francisco-based architecture firm Gensler moved its archived data to the public cloud and implemented Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage gateways, the firm reduced it data storage needs by 50 percent. They also reduced their overall cost of storage and created a viable archival strategy for the future. Download the case study to learn more.
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Case Study: Psomas
Psomas is a leading consulting engineering firm offering services for private companies and government agencies in the water transportation and land development markets. As a high-growth firm, Psomas needed to accelerate application performance to accommodate a changing set of demands from the business as well as employees.
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Podcasts
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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.
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Webcasts
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A Winning Combination for Success: Consolidation & Virtualization
These days, distributed enterprises must ensure application performance while keeping costs down. But what is the best way to accomplish this? And how can you simplify IT management and reduce complexity while delivering essential local services?
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Fast, Faster, Fastest: Avoiding Application Performance Issues
These days, distributed enterprises must ensure application performance while keeping costs down. But how can you simplify IT management while still delivering essential local services? Watch this webcast and learn how you can deploy edge services virtually in all your branch offices, virtually run up to five additional services and applications, and minimize the hardware needed at the branch office.
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North Pole to South Seas: Overcoming the Pitfalls of Remote Performance
In today's always-on world, connectivity is a business requirement. You need the tools that allow you to operate as if you were on the LAN, even if you’re at the farthest reaches of the WAN. Steelhead Mobile from Riverbed Technology enables organizations to combine remote access and remote performance, ensuring that mobile workers perform at their peak no matter where they are.
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Playing Defense: Staying on Top of Your Disaster Recovery Game
When it comes to disaster recovery, rapidly growing data volumes, distributed computing models, and new technologies all combine to present an ever-changing playing field. Safe recovery distances can also mean painfully slow replication and backup across the WAN. And then there are costs to consider.
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Successful Mobility: Access and Performance Anywhere
Today’s workforce is truly mobile. But connectivity and application performance needs remain the same wherever your workers are. However, while the requirements don’t change, the challenges in meeting them do. Watch this webcast to learn about ensuring consistent performance, getting the most out of limited connectivity, and accomplishing more by eliminating round trips and slow latency.
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Survey Results
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Product Literature
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Research Reports
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ESG – Why SharePoint Needs Riverbed WAN Optimization
Many SharePoint implementations are mission critical, yet access to these sites is often thwarted by poor network performance. In this analyst report from ESG, you'll discover how, much like Microsoft Exchange and other collaboration applications, companies deploying SharePoint can benefit from WAN optimization solutions, ensuring that they make the most of its productivity and information sharing capabilities.
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Yankee Group Mobile WAN Optimization Report
Mobile work continues to evolve. Your organization must keep up with the demands of its mobile workforce. This report introduces the concept of mobile WAN optimization and provides three case studies including RCM, PRTM and Einstein that highlight how this emerging technology can help IT departments achieve what previously appeared to be conflicting goals.
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ESG - Riverbed Whitewater: Optimizing Data Protection to the Cloud
Riverbed Whitewater leverages WAN optimization technology to provide a complete data protection service to the cloud. The appliance-based solution is designed to integrate seamlessly with exiting backup technologies and cloud storage provider APIs to provide rapid retrieval of data, and replicate data to the cloud to provide an off-site storage location for disaster recovery.
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Seeing Through the Fog: Managing Application Performance in the Cloud
As business applications transition from desktops into data centers and eventually to the public cloud, application visibility becomes increasingly shrouded. This report describes the inherent dangers for those inadequately prepared to move applications into the cloud, and covers the essential role that network-based performance measurement plays in maintaining service visibility when applications are drawn into the cloud.
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Taneja Group: Riverbed Extends from WAN Optimization to Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure
In this report, Taneja Group explores how Riverbed Technology has identified a critical challenge that limits IT performance in highly distributed customer environments: costly, complex, and hardware-heavy branch offices. The report profiles the new Steelhead EX + Granite appliance, combining a true “branch-office box” virtualized hardware platform with a first-of-its-kind block storage technology. Download now.
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Reviews
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Technology Briefs
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Network Based Backup
One of the greatest challenges today is effectively backing up and protecting the vast amounts of data stored throughout an organization. With WAN optimization, you can accelerate network-based backup by 5x and can reduce bandwidth use by up to 95%. Download this paper and learn more about this strategy today.
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Microsoft SharePoint Performance Brief
This is a performance brief that illustrates how Riverbed Steelhead appliances accelerate MS SharePoint Services over the WAN.
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Accelerating Satellite WANs with Riverbed
Satellite WANs are used to connect a variety of environments, including
offshore locations, mobile units, and very remote branch offices. This solutions brief explains how using WAN optimization solutions can enable more robust, LAN-like performance over satellite connections with out-of-the-box compatibility that accelerates the broadest range of applications remote workers need to function effectively over the WAN.
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Accelerating the Cloud
To stay competitive and keep costs down, today's enterprises need to consolidate resources, quickly provision services, and more effectively rationalize costs with new business models. If done correctly, cloud computing can help solve these problems, and further help IT managers maintain business-critical applications and data. But there are numerous challenges that can prevent organizations from succeeding with cloud initiatives. This solution brief addresses those limitations, and looks at how Riverbed Technology helps you overcome them.
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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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Tools
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Riverbed ROI Calculator
How much can new technology save you? When looking to reduce your spending on hardware and software upgrades, it is rare that you can also decrease your need for maintenance and IT support. But what if you could do both, while eliminating the need for network upgrades? Try this free ROI calculator and see the benefits your company can receive.
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X-Factor Estimator
Riverbed delivers WAN optimization solutions that help you balance the need to consolidate IT infrastructure with the desire for performance. Calculate how fast your data can go with the X-Factor estimator.
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Product Demos
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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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Videos
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Steelhead Mobile Demo
This is a Video demonstration of how Steelhead Mobile speeds Windows File Sharing and SharePoint File Sharing.
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eWeek Slide Shows
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eSeminars
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