White Papers
White Papers
Streamlined Data Protection - The Pain of Managing Tape Backups in Branch Offices
One of the greatest challenges today is effectively backing up and protecting the vast amounts of data stored throughout an organization. With WAN optimization, you can accelerate network-based backup by 5x and can reduce bandwidth use by up to 95%. Download this paper and learn more about this strategy today.
Download this white paper nowWAN Optimization: The Key to Effective Private Clouds
When it comes to cloud computing, WAN optimization isn’t an option; it’s a necessity. Read this technology brief to learn how addressing network limitations can make the difference between success and failure of a cloud-based system.
Download this white paper nowFive Considerations to Enable a More Agile Infrastructure
Conflicting trends in IT affect your ability to deliver a consistent high performance infrastructure for workers everywhere. Adding or rationing bandwidth, redeploying local resources, and tiering service levels don’t fix your underlying problems. With WAN optimization solutions from Riverbed, the network can be transformed from a barrier to an enabler of your initiatives. Read this white paper to learn more.
Download this white paper nowForrester Consulting - A Standard Branch Office IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate
Want a standard IT platform that delivers network optimization and virtualization to the branch office? This Forrester report discusses why WAN optimization is the best way to gain better performance and cost savings for your business.
Download this white paper nowAccelerating Data Migration with WAN Optimization
Migrating large amounts of data over distance can be costly and time consuming. It's also necessary for IT tasks such as remote office backup, data center moves, and cloud computing models. The good news is that WAN optimization gets the job done effectively, efficiently, and affordably. Read this technology brief to learn how.
Download this white paper nowAccelerating Cloud Performance with WAN Optimization
Today’s smart CIOs are assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each should run—locally or in the public cloud. Read on to learn about the benefits of cloud computing, and why its success or failure is often dependent on WAN optimization.
Download this white paper nowFive Steps to Successful IT Consolidation
Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful.
RSP Feature Brief
Consolidation and virtualization are hot trends in IT, helping organizations increase their flexibility in delivering valuable services and reduce costs. The enhanced Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP) provides customers with the capability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance. This revolutionary approach allows customers to deploy local services in all their branch offices without the need to deploy and maintain full-blown servers to run the applications. The business benefits are minimizing the hardware needed at the branch office, enabling companies to consolidate IT operations even further, reducing costs, and simplifying administration, all while still delivering high quality local services. Read this Feature Brief for more information.
Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World
Are your workers going increasingly mobile? Don't wait for their calls to slam Support when they experience poor application performance on the road. Discover in the Forrester report how companies are successfully deploying WAN optimization solutions that are specifically tuned for a mobile environment, delivering the acceleration needed to ensure consistent performance, room for new applications, and the ability to ensure end user productivity at all times.
ESG - Avoiding the Hazards of IT Consolidation
In an effort to reduce costs and streamline operations, today's large, distributed organizations are investing more in data center transformation, consolidation, and server virtualization. And yet many IT consolidation projects suffer from poor planning and implementation issues that ultimately impact application performance and user productivity. This technology brief investigates the processes and tools that are needed to provide complete enterprise visibility and WAN acceleration for high-priority traffic.
Yankee Group Mobile WAN Optimization Report
Mobile work continues to evolve. Your organization must keep up with the demands of its mobile workforce. This report introduces the concept of mobile WAN optimization and provides three case studies including RCM, PRTM and Einstein that highlight how this emerging technology can help IT departments achieve what previously appeared to be conflicting goals.
The CIO's Guide to Optimizing Virtual Desktops
Desktop virtualization promises many benefits, including simplified and standardized desktop support, greater consistency and control, and better security and compliance. But if customers want true desktop virtualization success, they would be well advised to evaluate WAN optimization solutions. Read this white paper to learn how Riverbed solutions can help you realize the full benefits of desktop virtualization.
Download this white paper nowAssessing ROI for Mobile Acceleration Clients
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.
Download this white paper nowThe Changing Requirements of WAN Optimization
Companies looking to drive greater IT performance will do well to begin their search with WAN optimization, which has evolved into a complete system that provides deep, actionable visibility. Read on to learn how WAN optimization works across the broad range of applications that enterprises use the most.
Download this white paper nowESG - Practical Advice for Streamlining Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Solutions
To succeed and thrive, today’s organizations must create network environments that enable them to continue operations or recover in the shortest possible time. This paper provides practical advice for maintaining a functional DR strategy, and for streamlining business continuity solutions.
Download this white paper nowThe CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure
Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster.
How to Improve Disaster Recovery for the Enterprise: Advanced Replications Powered by WAN Optimization
Ready to accelerate disaster recovery across your entire enterprise? Read this Taneja report to find out how you can increase WAN efficiency, overcome latency, and optimize IT performance for disaster recovery by deploying WAN optimization.
Unleashing Cloud Performance
Want to free yourself from the spiraling cost and complexity of your current IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by giving you three key strategies for delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance to end users and IT managers alike. In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can break the cloud performance barrier and deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.
Accelerating the Cloud
To stay competitive and keep costs down, today's enterprises need to consolidate resources, quickly provision services, and more effectively rationalize costs with new business models. If done correctly, cloud computing can help solve these problems, and further help IT managers maintain business-critical applications and data. But there are numerous challenges that can prevent organizations from succeeding with cloud initiatives. This solution brief addresses those limitations, and looks at how Riverbed Technology helps you overcome them.
Increase IT Performance from the Enterprise to the Cloud with WAN Optimization
WAN optimization plays an important role in today's highly distributed datacenters and cloud computing architectures. Massive consolidation and data mobility, enabled by virtualization, have radically altered how we build servers, design applications, and deploy storage for the emerging "cloud" decade. This paper discusses how Riverbed solutions effectively eliminate IT performance constraints in such environments.
What's Needed for Cloud Computing
Just what is cloud computing anyway? Skeptics might say it is nothing but industry hyperbole, visionaries might say it is the future of IT. In reality, both statements are true-cloud computing has been embellished by the tech industry, but it does hold real potential for new types of on-demand dynamic IT services. This paper seeks to clarify the definition of cloud computing, identify how far along users are in terms of cloud deployment, and examine the role of the network in the cloud computing model.
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Webcasts
North Pole to South Seas: Overcoming the Pitfalls of remote Performance
In today's always-on world, connectivity is a business requirement. You need the tools that allow you to operate as if you were on the LAN, even if you’re at the farthest reaches of the WAN. Steelhead® Mobile from Riverbed Technology enables organizations to combine remote access and remote performance, ensuring that mobile workers perform at their peak no matter where they are. Check out this webinar and learn how to overcome three common pitfalls to remote productivity, avoid consolidation and virtualization practices that negatively impact mobile workers, and ensure consistent performance for workers in the office and in the field.
Download this white paper nowPlaying Defense: Staying on Top of Your Disaster Recovery Game
When it comes to disaster recovery, rapidly growing data volumes, distributed computing models, and new technologies all combine to present an ever-changing playing field. Safe recovery distances can also mean painfully slow replication and backup across the WAN. And then there are costs to consider. Listen and watch as Nik Rouda, director of product marketing at Riverbed Technology, explains the latest disaster recovery technologies and cost savings strategies. You’ll learn how to build a functional disaster recovery plan, how new technologies are changing the game, and how to make your own disaster recovery efforts more efficient. Technology, explains the latest disaster recovery technologies and cost savings strategies. You’ll learn how to build a functional disaster recovery plan, how new technologies are changing the game, and how to make your own disaster recovery efforts more efficient.
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