Riverbed Research Report Sample

A year ago, we published an in-depth review of Riverbed’s broad suite of WAN optimization solutions from an IT performance viewpoint. Put simply, Riverbed’s focus for the last decade has been on improving overall IT performance through industry-leading WAN optimization technologies and solutions wherever possible.

Now, the company has identified a critical emerging challenge that limits IT performance in highly distributed customer environments: costly, complex, and hard-ware-heavy branch offices. Riverbed customers report that they are struggling to achieve the same level of consolidation (and cost efficiency) in their branch offices that server and storage virtualization have enabled in their datacenters. So the WAN optimization pioneer has now turned its full attention to overcoming its customers’ top barriers to fully virtualized and consolidated infrastructure: limited server virtualization, heavy reliance on distributed, regional storage, and the need for edge locations to function even when disconnected from a central datacenter.