Technical Training and Sessions

Want to roll up your sleeves and deepen your knowledge of the revolutionary technology that makes WAN optimization possible? Attend our ever-popular technical training sessions to get the latest from our leading experts including Interceptor appliance training, RCSP Certification, RCSA Certification (partners only), and our walk-in Hands On Lab. You'll be glad you did.

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Technical Training Sessions

• Best Practices for Effective Consolidation
• Managing Steelhead Mobile Deployments
• How to Improve Network Visability w/ Cascade
• How to Achieve Secure WAN Optimization
• RSP Basics: What You Need to Know
• Accelerating Virtual Desktop Environments
• Monitoring Your Private Cloud with Cascade
• Practical Advice for Accelerating Disaster Recovery
• QoS with Steelhead: A How-To Session
• Scaling Riverbed Deployments
• Building the Branch Office Box w/RSP
• Simplifying Steelhead Management
• Basic Network Integration

Best Practices for Effective Consolidation
Consolidation is no easy task. From assessing the situation, managing the process, and ensuring performance, the entire process is risky and challenging. Learn how Riverbed tools can help you plan better, consolidate faster, and ensure performance everywhere in your network. You will walk away from this session with a game plan for consolidation that is fine-tuned for your enterprise.

Managing Steelhead Mobile Deployments
Speaker: Jess Leroy
Are you considering deploying mobile WAN acceleration in your network? This session will inform you about our best practices and upcoming product additions for effective deployment and management of the Steelhead Mobile product.

How to Improve Network Visability w/ Cascade
Speaker: Charles Kaplan
You consolidated & accelerated, you are an IT hero. Is your job done? Hardly. Responsibility for application availability and performance never ends. Learn about looking into your network with Riverbed Cascade. This session will give you key insights into how Riverbed Cascade can benefit your IT operations; including use for performance management, consolidation efforts and Steelhead reporting.

How to Achieve Secure WAN Optimization
Speaker: Amol Kabe
Security is mission critical and increasing in complexity. IT professionals also face a mandate to optimize their IT infrastructure. In this session will discuss security considerations while deploying WAN optimization. In addition, we will cover best practices and deployment examples where security and optimization intersect, including treatment of SSL, authentication and application security.

RSP Basics: What You Need to know
Speaker: Deepak Balakrishna
Consolidating IT at the branch? Want to learn more about Riverbed Services Platform? This session will introduce you the basic concepts of RSP, enabling lower IT costs, driving IT consolidation and simplifying your network service management.

Accelerating Virtual Desktop Environments
Speaker: Damien Murphy
End-user experience and bandwidth utilization are key elements of any virtual desktop deployment strategy. This session will give you key insights into best practices and deployment options for accelerating virtual desktop environments over the WAN.

Monitoring Your Private Cloud with Cascade
Once you've built a private cloud, how do you ensure that you are meeting your Service Level Objectives? Learn how Cascade can give you the details you need on application performance, bandwidth utilization, and resource contention. You will take away strategies on better IT performance management and best practices on responding to IT emergencies.

Practical Advice for Accelerating Disaster Recovery
Speaker: Milin Desai
This session will give you practical advice on key technologies and techniques for adding acceleration of Disaster Recovery (DR) into your network. Topics include integration points, accelerating storage data flows and scaling your acceleration capabilities as the amount of data increases.

QoS with Steelhead: A How-To Session
Speaker: Henri Dubois-Ferrier
Confused about QoS? This popular session covers Riverbed Steelhead QoS capabilities in detail, including configuration examples, best-practice recommendations and an overview of the advantages of deploying Hierarchical Fair Service Curve (HFSC).

Scaling Riverbed Deployments
Speaker: Steve Smoot
Want to learn how Steelheads interact with your network? This session will cover the fundamentals of auto-discovery, asymmetric traffic handling, and the many options you have for deploying Steelheads.

Building the Branch Office Box w/RSP
Speaker: Deepak Balakrishna
At this session you will learn about partners that enable the Riverbed Services Platform to build a complete branch office. The solutions covered will include security/threat management, firewalls and other network services.

Simplifying Steelhead Management
Speaker: Sidney Rabsatt
Do you have more Steelhead appliances than fingers on your hand? This session will dive deep on how to effectively manage Steelhead deployments with the Riverbed Central Management Controller (CMC), best practices for deploying and managing Steelhead appliances, and give you a preview of the new features that are planned.

Basic Network Integration
Speaker: Paul Griffiths
Want to learn how the Steelhead interacts with your network? This session will cover the fundamentals of auto-discovery, asymmetric traffic handling, and the many options you have for deploying Steelhead appliances. Hands-on networking experience recommended.

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