Riverbed White Paper Sample

Much has been written about wide area data services (WDS) and its ability to improve productivity and collaboration across the enterprise. However, WDS investments can often be justified solely on the basis of cost savings. These cost savings can be achieved without negatively impacting operations -- in fact, in most instances WDS helps organizations run better while cutting costs. Riverbed has over 3500 customers, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies, who are using our WDS solutions to reduce costs while improving productivity. Many Riverbed customers have seen a return on investment in just a few months because of the significant hard cost savings in areas such as bandwidth reduction and IT consolidation.

This paper explores how enterprises can use Riverbed solutions to cut hard costs and make the most of their existing infrastructure, without negatively impacting their operations.

What is Wide Area Data Services?
Riverbed is the pioneer and market and technology leader in WDS - the first comprehensive solution to a host of problems that plague enterprise applications operating across the wide area network (WAN) including:

• Poor application performance in distributed environments
• Insufficient, expensive or congested network bandwidth into remote offices
• Difficulties in successful IT consolidation
• Challenges with slow remote data backup and replication
• Increasing demands of the mobile workforce