WAN Optimization Solutions
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RIVERBED is the pioneer and, with over 4,500 customers, the worldwide technology and market share leader in wide-area data services (WDS). Riverbed provides the first and only comprehensive WDS solution to a host of severe problems that have effectively prevented enterprises from sharing applications and data across wide areas. By wide area, we mean anywhere in the world. Between Chicago and New York. Or between Seattle and Shanghai.
Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead WDS appliances address all of the issues that affect application performance over the WAN, dramatically improving the performance of applications that companies and knowledge workers rely on every day - including file sharing, email, backup, document management systems, IT tools, as well as ERP and CRM solutions. With Riverbed, any of these applications can be accelerated somewhere between 5 and 50, and even up to 100 times faster.
In very simple terms, the impact for companies is the difference between having dial-up and having broadband. Suddenly, the impossible becomes possible, just like that.
WIDE-AREA DATA SERVICES
Given the importance of anytime, anywhere application access, IT departments are turning to wide-area data services to improve and accelerate application performance across the wide-area network (WAN). Using WDS, IT can provide LAN-like access to data and applications anywhere throughout the enterprise network, enabling real-time collaboration for users in branch offices and mobile workers all over the world.
Riverbed is the pioneer and market leader in WDS - the first comprehensive solution to a host of severe problems that plague enterprise applications operating across the WAN including:
- Poor application performance
- Insufficient, expensive or congested network bandwidth into remote offices
- Difficulties in IT consolidation
- Challenges with slow remote data backup and replication
- Increasing demands of the mobile workforce
Unlike point products that improve one part of the wide area performance problem - like data compression, QoS, or TCP optimization - WDS is a comprehensive solution to application performance problems.
Riverbed's market-leading WDS solutions address all of the issues that affect application performance over the WAN, improving the throughput of applications enterprises rely on every day - including file sharing, email, backup, SSL, document management systems, and IT tools, as well as ERP and CRM solutions.
Using WDS, enterprises can improve application performance across the network typically by 5 to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, and can simultaneously reduce WAN bandwidth utilization by 65 to 95%. These dramatic results allow businesses to take advantage of their networks, infrastructure, and applications in ways that they had never imagined possible.
RIVERBED Steelhead appliances and Steelhead Mobile software enable wide-area data services (WDS) for enterprises of all sizes. These products make it easy for organizations to accelerate the applications that are most important to their users, anywhere in the world. Steelhead appliances are available in a range of sizes to meet the needs of any remote office - from small sales offices with just a few people, to major design centers and corporate facilities with thousands of employees. Steelhead Mobile software enables workers on the move to enjoy LAN-like access to files and applications whether they are working from home, on the road, or even at customer sites.
Every Steelhead product comes with the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS):
- Data Streamlining optimizes all WAN traffic by removing all redundant data and prioritizing traffic through advanced QoS mechanism
- Transport Streamlining improves the behavior of TCP
- Application Streamlining reduces application protocol inefficiencies and enables disconnected operations
- Management Streamlining simplifies the deployment, maintenance, and management of the appliances.
By deploying Steelhead appliances and software, enterprises can accelerate application performance from 5 to 50 times, and in some cases up to 100 times, as well as reduced bandwidth. Steelhead appliances and software can deliver more responsive applications, successful consolidation of distributed IT infrastructure, and enable expedited network-based backup and replication.
The complete Steelhead product family optimizes traffic in both directions, transparent to your applications, and requires no reconfiguration to client and server software. All Steelhead products are designed for easy integration into your existing network, with no changes to routers or servers, and complete compatibility with existing QoS and VoIP implementations.
STEELHEAD PRODUCT FAMILY KEY BENEFITS
Accelerate the Applications that are the Most Important to You
Riverbed has architected its products to provide the best possible acceleration for the broadest range of enterprise applications. This means that employees across your organization can see dramatic, immediate benefits from the Steelhead product family. The Steelhead family is built on an application-independent architecture that optimizes all TCP traffic for bandwidth utilization and TCP behavior. On top of this architecture, Riverbed has built a series of Application Streamlining modules that further optimize applications like Windows, Exchange, HTTP, HTTPS, NFS, and MS SQL.
In fact, most analysts note that Riverbed has the most complete strategy for wide-area data services and application acceleration. In the recent Forrester WAVE report, Forrester notes that Riverbed "is the clear leader" in this market. Gartner's most recent Magic Quadrant on this space also puts Riverbed in the leader's quadrant, with the most complete vision and the highest ability to execute.
With Riverbed, you can assure that your organization has the most effective, widely used, and most technically advanced solution for accelerating applications over the WAN.
To learn more about Riverbed Technology, please click here.
