Riverbed Case Study Sample

WAN Optimization technology has been an important innovation over the past 10+ years, enabling productivity gains and cost savings of magnitudes sufficient to drive it to mainstream status for distributed, network-enabled organizations of virtually all sizes. The latest evolution of this technology is mobile client software that can be installed on individual user’s workstations and laptops, so they can enjoy the benefits of LAN-like network performance wherever they may be working. 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.