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5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation
For most organisations today, the possibility of consolidating IT infrastructure out of remote offices and into the main data centre is an idea that has been on the table to cut costs and boost productivity. After all, isn’t consolidation supposed to produce these benefits with nothing more than a small one-time effort of some time and money? While consolidation can certainly bring a number of benefits to organisations – and by this point you’ve already created the ROI calculations that show a year or less payback period.
Manufacturer: Riverbed
Technology: Networking
Centralised Data Backup
The need to be close to customers, manufacturing facilities and specialized labor have required organisations to extend the traditional concept of "headquarters" to offices and factories hundreds or even thousands of miles away. However, along with the opportunities that come with workforce globalization, come the realities of dealing with data that sprawls across the organisation. Whether the data is at the Munich branch or at HQ in New York, it is equally susceptible to loss, requiring that data recovery and security plans apply to all parts of the organisation, regardless of location.
Manufacturer: Riverbed
Technology: Networking
Extreme Savings: Cutting Costs with Wide-Area Data Services
organisations of all sizes strive to be more productive and run low cost operations. Particularly in difficult economic times, many organisations will evaluate various cost-cutting initiatives in order to weather the storm. However, enterprises need to be careful to pursue cost cutting measures that won’t negatively impact day-to-day operations or constrain long term growth. Employees need to do their jobs more efficiently than before, so it is vital to keep IT infrastructure up-to-date. Ideally, organisations should not make deep cuts in investments that may jeopardize future growth, such as product improvements or hiring of key personnel.
Manufacturer: Riverbed
Technology: Networking
Optimizing Thin-client Traffic over the WAN
Thin-client traffic is a large and growing component of many enterprise network environments. Examples of thin-client traffic are Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), which is used by Windows Terminal Server, and Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA), which is the protocol used by Citrix’s XenApp computing platform. There are multiple wide area network (WAN) optimization techniques that can be applied to thin-client traffic delivered over the WAN. However, techniques designed to optimise delivery of thin-client traffic should not be confused with the broader set of WAN optimization technologies used to produce dramatic performance gains for file-based traffic.
Manufacturer: Riverbed
Technology: Networking
Remote IT Infrastructure Consolidation
Fortune 1000 CIOs are making the strategic choice to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centres. They are compelled to move some or all remote file servers, email servers, backup, and other servers because through such site consolidation they can jointly address the need to reduce remote site operating costs and mandates for more rigorous security and compliance.
Manufacturer: Riverbed
Technology: Networking
Re-architecting Disaster Recovery Solutions Leveraging WAN Optimization Technology
Disaster Recovery (DR) is not new—many organisations have employed some form of DR for quite some time. Companies have been replicating their mainframe, storage, and database systems for years. Before that, they moved paper documents to offsite locations. So, what‘s new with DR? As business technology proliferated over the past 10 to 15 years, DR coverage expanded from back office systems to all types of additional business applications. New business applications and IT services help organisations react quickly to a dynamic marketplace and provide access to information—wherever and whenever it’s needed. This trend is actually accelerating as:
Manufacturer: Riverbed
Technology: Networking / Storage
Miscrosoft SQL Accelerator Software
Many important enterprise applications host their data on Microsoft SQL Server databases. These applications are designed for client-server environments with ever-larger numbers of clients accessing a small number of increasingly-powerful servers powered by Microsoft SQL Server. Accompanying the ubiquity of such applications are user complaints regarding performance issues as greater numbers of remote clients attempt to access enterprise application data from geographically distant locations.
Manufacturer: Riverbed
Technology: Networking
Wide Area Data Services: Optimizing the Branch
In February 2004, Taneja Group defined the term Wide Area File Services (WAFS) to describe a group of bright young companies that were optimizing network file access across wide geographic areas. Since that term, we have continued to track the rapid evolution of various optimization challenges for the distributed enterprise, spending significant time talking with both customers and vendors. We reached the conclusion that WAFS must now be considered a subset of an even more encompassing category that we define here as Wide Area Data Services (WDS). The pioneering and defining firm in the WDS category is Riverbed Technology, based in San Francisco.
Manufacturer: Riverbed
Technology: Networking
Adding Business Value with Wide Area Data Services
With the growing importance of anywhere, anytime access for an increasingly dispersed workforce, IT managers are continually looking for ways to accelerate application performance across the wide area network (WAN). Point products are available to improve one or another aspect of WAN performance, such as insufficient or congested bandwidth, impaired application performance, slow remote backup and replication, or obstacles to IT consolidation.
Manufacturer: Riverbed
Technology: Networking / Storage
Improving the Business Value of WAN Optimization
In 2007, IDC conducted 12 interviews with Riverbed Steelhead customers in order to assess their experiences after deploying the WAN optimization solution. Given that Riverbed Technology has added features and functionality to Steelhead over the past two years, IDC worked with Riverbed to update and add to this research by conducting eight additional in-depth interviews with Steelhead customers. In this study, as in the 2007 study, IDC found that customers were able to reduce IT costs, improve IT staff efficiency, increase availability for users, and trim time to market with new revenue-generating opportunities.
Manufacturer: Riverbed
Technology: Networking
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