Resources
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Forrester Consulting: A Standard Branch Office IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate
Today’s IT departments are faced with a dilemma: Users and applications are being pulled further apart. On one end you have consolidation efforts that are centralizing applications and data into fewer locations; on the other, you have users that are becoming increasingly distributed across work sites. But how many companies are addressing the fact that people are becoming increasingly decentralized?
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The 2009 Handbook of Application Delivery
Ensuring acceptable application delivery will become even more difficult over the next few years. As a result, IT organizations need to ensure that the approach that they take to resolving the current application delivery challenges can scale to support the emerging challenges. This handbook elaborates on the key tasks associated with planning, optimization, management and control and provides decision criteria to help IT organizations choose appropriate solutions.
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Centralized Data Backup and Your WAN
Is your organization prepared to tackle the massive challenge of protecting your data in a cost effective and timely manner? With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with WAN optimization solutions.
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An In-Depth Look at ROI
In this economy, as IT budgets remain flat or get reduced, doing more with the infrastructure you have has never been more important. But is investing more money in the same old networking infrastructure wise? In this whitepaper, Riverbed discusses its compelling and powerful return on investment in hard dollars, and a way to leap past the obstacles preventing you from reaching your IT objectives.
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Business Value of Performance IDC Whitepaper
This paper will explain how Riverbed, whose product line, the Steelhead family of appliances, optimizes TCP/IP traffic, addresses these issue with a single WAN Optimization solution, so that users can enjoy LAN-like access to important data and applications regardless of their location.
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Five 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.
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Forrester Consulting - Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World
Today's IT departments are faced with a dilemma: Users and applications are being pulled further apart. On one end you have consolidation efforts that are centralizing applications and data into fewer locations; on the other, you have users that are becoming increasingly distributed across work sites. But how many companies are addressing the fact that people are becoming increasingly decentralized?
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Face Off: Software vs. Appliance WAN Optimization Solutions
Find out how Steelhead APPLIANCE faces off versus Steelhead MOBILE in a head-to-head competition. How does each WAN optimization solution enhance major IT projects like consolidation, virtualization, mobility, and disaster recovery?
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Network Based Backup
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.
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Microsoft SharePoint Performance Brief
This is a performance brief that illustrates how Riverbed Steelhead appliances accelerate MS SharePoint Services over the WAN.
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2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report
Riverbed positioned in Leaders quadrant of 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. In this report, Gartner helps organizations interested in WAN Optimization Controller capabilities truly understand their options.
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ESG - Why SharePoint Needs Riverbed WAN Optimization
Download to learn how Microsoft SharePoint is quickly becoming a "must have" application. Similar to Microsoft Exchange and other collaboration applications, companies deploying SharePoint can benefit from WAN optimization solutions to ensure that they make the most of its productivity and information sharing capabilities.
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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.
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News
Riverbed to Bring WAN Optimization to Public Clouds
WAN optimization vendor Riverbed in 2010 will begin rolling out products designed to improve application performance and storage capabilities in public cloud environments, such as Amazons EC2. Among the products will be a Riverbed Steelhead software offering designed for public clouds. Riverbed demonstrated some of these capabilities at an event in New York.
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ATT Launches New On-Demand Cloud Storage Service
The new cloud subscription-based service gives businesses on-demand access to computing resources via a new online portal called Synaptic Compute as a Service. Online time windows can be purchased through credit card payment, and services can be used immediately.
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Fortinet Offers FortiGate Security Appliance
Fortinet releases a security appliance and switching platforms aimed at cost-conscious businesses.
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