Riverbed Technology Brief Sample

Many agencies have placed servers at remote sites to deliver consistent application performance to remote users. However, provisioning of servers at remote sites is expensive and the resources are often underutilized. Worse, all those servers have to be managed, backed-up, repaired, and patched.

The benefits of centralizing servers are clear — fewer servers, less software to buy and maintain, and lower electricity bills. However, application performance over the WAN is the main stumbling block to centralizing servers in the data center. Riverbed solutions remove this performance problem and enable organizations to centralize their IT resources while providing LAN-like performance to users in branch locations.