Riverbed Technology Brief Sample

Wide area network-based approaches to data backup are naturally limited by the performance of the WAN. Bandwidth limitations and network latency can make backup take much longer than desired. For large remote offices with significant datastores, this can make WAN-based backup impossible without significant costly WAN bandwidth upgrades.

By overcoming bandwidth limitations and optimizing transfers to overcome network latency, Riverbed Steelhead appliances have successfully enabled and facilitated network-based backup approaches in the most demanding customer environments. Riverbed technology dramatically optimizes common network-based approaches for backing up large amounts of data in your distributed enterprise:

• Centralized backup and recovery of servers and desktop machines in remote offices
• Replication of centralized data repositories between data centers