Netmarks Philippines, Inc. (NMPI), together with Riverbed Technology , hosted a free seminar, Riverbed Rush: You Don’t Want to be Left Behind last August 10, 2007 at MyCinema Greenbelt 3 (from 3PM). Riverbed Rush was a seminar focusing on Wide Area Network (WAN) application acceleration using Riverbed’s Steelhead® appliance. 

After the seminar, a full-length movie “Rush Hour 3”, the latest installment of the blockbuster Rush Hour series starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, was shown for the exclusive enjoyment of the attendees.

Riverbed is the pioneer and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS) – the first comprehensive solution to a host of severe problems that plague enterprise applications operating across wide area networks.

 Improving application performance has tangible, meaningful benefits for organizations of all sizes: accelerate applications across the wide area network; optimize WAN bandwidth utilization; enable IT consolidation and; accelerate backup, recovery, and replication. Unlike other approaches to application acceleration, Riverbed's WDS solutions can provide dramatic application performance increases – typically by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times faster – across the broad range of applications that enterprises care about the most.

 After the presentation, our Deputy Engineering Operations Manager, Eng. Khalid Punzalan conducted a WAN data exchange simulation—demonstrating differences in data exchange between networks “without” and “with” Riverbed Steelhead. There was a Q&A session where expert gave pieces of advice regarding WAN issues in attendees’ respective organizations.