Leverage Cloud Services to Reduce Costs and Improve Business Processes

"We looked at other suppliers in the market, but there just wasn't enough background on their options, whereas the Riverbed solution was a proven technology."
—Richard Seear, Head of IT, CNP

Riverbed accelerates the movement of files, data, servers, and machines to public and private clouds and frees up the bandwidth needed to support branch offices and data centers. Our solution accelerates access and migration to the cloud for streamlined cloud archive, cloud backup, cloud storage, and cloud data protection. File transfers that once took hours will take minutes or seconds. Employees will be able to access files faster and from virtually anywhere, which will make them more productive and efficient.

Our comprehensive solution:

• Accelerates access to private and public cloud infrastructure
• Accelerates the movement of virtualized machines and data to cloud data centers
• Reduces the bandwidth needed to support branch offices and data centers
• Improves visibility into network utilization, application performance, and SLAs
• Removes WAN performance barriers, enabling the effective use of cloud services
• Integrates market-leading WAN optimization technology with hardware appliances, software, and virtualized platforms
• Offers cloud archive, cloud backup, cloud storage, and cloud data protection as part of your improved disaster recovery strategy

"Riverbed is a massive cost saver. For us, the costs of implementing a bandwidth upgrade would be 3.4 times more expensive than deploying the Riverbed Steelhead appliances. The Riverbed solution pays for itself in a short period of time."
—Alan Ayer, Network Systems Manager, Silicon Image

Riverbed helps your business run faster by accelerating cloud services and reducing IT costs. On average, customers cut bandwidth utilization by 70-90 percent and experience up to 100 times faster application performance. They reduce the number of servers they need to provision and yet get the power of multiple servers in one office, even though they are paying for one. They save millions of dollars by consolidating branch servers and avoiding the refresh cost of hundreds of devices. In fact, IDC notes that Riverbed customers see payback on average in about six months.

Boost Productivity & Improve Business Processes

Accelerate performance, raise productivity, and eliminate the impact of distance between branch offices, mobile workers, the data center, and business headquarters.

• Improve the performance of many of the most commonly used applications across the network, typically by 5-50 times and, in some cases, by up to 100 times.
• Accelerate operations by reducing the time required to complete repetitive tasks.
• Ensure fast, reliable access to data and applications for employees around the globe.
• Achieve LAN-like performance so that mobile employees can upload, send, and share files from virtually anywhere.
• Reduce the cost of backing up branch office servers.
• Tightly integrate resource planning systems and product lifecycle platforms with distributed employees — including mobile workers.
• Enable a “branch in a box” concept, which allows new offices to be equipped with a simple IT infrastructure consisting of a router, VPN, IP phone, and Steelhead products.

Save Money & Achieve Measurable ROI

Deliver strategic value while helping your IT team cut unnecessary costs.

• Reduce the use of WAN bandwidth by 65-95 percent and relieve network congestion.
• Cut server costs and routine IT maintenance. 
• Consolidate servers into data centers more effectively and enable virtualization, without impacting performance.

Accomplish Key Business Initiatives

Use WAN optimization to build a consolidated, private cloud infrastructure. Cut costs and simplify infrastructure to accommodate new growth and new technology demands.

• Consolidation and virtualization — Centralize IT infrastructure including servers across branch offices and data centers, file, email, and storage into one cloud environment.
• Cloud acceleration — Accelerate applications faster. Installing Steelhead® appliances from Riverbed increases performance across the WAN by streamlining data and transport by up to 100 times. This accelerates access to the cloud and accelerates the movement of virtualized machines and data to cloud data centers.
• Collaboration — Move files and applications across offices faster. Employees spend less time uploading and sending files and more time collaborating with each other and customers.
• Real-time performance — Share applications, documents, email, design files, and software as if employees across the globe were all operating from the same location.
• Productivity — Deploy Steelhead products to reduce network congestion and speed up data throughput so your workers can do their jobs faster.
• Visibility — Gain visibility of WAN traffic and optimization status, all from a single web interface. Install and customize in minutes through plug-and-play installation, with no changes to your existing clients and servers.

"We see 12-18 times faster performance across many of the applications we use."
—Adam Rasner, Director of Corporate Networking, Rayonier

Like many large companies, you likely have hundreds of servers spread out across many data centers and offices. It’s a challenge for your IT team to maintain patch, upgrade, and back up all those servers.

Riverbed can help your business to accelerate, virtualize, and consolidate all of these distributed servers, and effectively utilize public or private cloud infrastructure. This frees your IT staff while helping your business run faster. Riverbed leads the market in IT performance through its Steelhead and Cascade® product lines — helping customers to understand, optimize, and consolidate IT infrastructure throughout the data center, branch office, remote worker, and even the cloud.

Private Cloud Services

Accelerate your consolidated private cloud and maximize the productivity and performance of IT environments and businesses.

• Consolidate distributed IT resources and virtualize those resources in the data center.
• Provide more cost-effective management while serving up services faster.
• Remove significant strain on existing resources and reduce strain on performance.
• Remove wide-area networking performance barriers and remove barriers to bandwidth congestion, reducing the need to purchase more bandwidth.

Public Cloud Services

• Maximize performance, productivity, scale, and elasticity.
• Reduce cloud service costs.
• Increase adaptability for changing workloads as an operating expense, rather than a capital expense.
• Increase performance by having employees access applications from anywhere in the world.

Accelerate Cloud Services

Remove wide area networking performance barriers, enabling the effective use of cloud services.

• Provide market-leading WAN optimization technology through hardware appliances, software, and virtualized platforms.
• Cut bandwidth costs using a patented application algorithm to achieve massive-scale data deduplication.
• Accelerate access to private and public cloud infrastructure. The Riverbed solution layers TCP and application protocol on top of its data reduction technique to deliver WAN optimization.
• Accelerate the movement of virtualized machines and data to cloud data centers.
• Significantly reduce the bandwidth needed to support branch offices and data centers.
• Improve visibility into network utilization, application performance, and SLAs.