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Your WAN is now essential to your company’s success. Don’t you want to ensure that you’re getting the most out of the network you’ve already invested in? Whether you are trying to consolidate servers for security and efficiency, implementing disaster recovery over the WAN, or simply helping users to be more productive, wide-area data services (WDS) from Riverbed can help you accomplish your goal.

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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No Free Lunch
Any organization with more than one location must often make important tradeoffs about network communication among its locations. In an ideal world where network bandwidth is infinite, latency is zero, communication cost is free, and links are never down, such tradeoffs would become irrelevant. Download this white paper to learn more.
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Optimizing Performance for Voice over IP and UDP Traffic
Voice-over-IP (VoIP) is a special category of network traffic that requires separate and distinct consideration from the more traditional TCP-based traffic found in IP networks. Certainly, user expectations about the quality and availability of telephony services are at a much higher level than for web and file applications. Due to these elevated user expectations, VoIP traffic must be handled carefully.
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Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World
Today’s IT departments are faced with a dilemma: Users and applications are being pulled further apart. On one end you have consolidation efforts that are centralizing applications and data into fewer locations; on the other, you have users that are becoming increasingly distributed across work sites. But how many companies are addressing the fact that people are becoming increasingly decentralized?
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Adding Business Value with Wide-Area Data Services (WDS)
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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ESG Lab Field Audit: Riverbed and Cisco
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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Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2007
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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Case Study: LG Electronics
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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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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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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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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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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Accelerating 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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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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Golder Associates Case Study
Steelhead Appliances and Steelhead Mobile provide real-time collaboration everywhere for leading environmental planning organization.
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