Customers with cult-like conviction. Technology experts from the skunkworks lab. Influential industry analysts that are never satisfied. Strangely enough, they all get a voice in the same podcast, thanks to the pioneer and global leader in wide-area data services (WDS): Riverbed. Once a month, senior product evangelist Bob Gilbert brings together the finest minds on WAN Optimization, Application
Acceleration, and Wide-area File Services for your listening pleasure.
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Riverbed Extends Lead in WDS Market with Launch of RiOS 5.0 Software Platform With the announcement of RiOS 5.0, Riverbed extends its lead in the Wide-area Data Services market with groundbreaking application acceleration performance, enhancements in device management, more flexible choices for deployment, and a "game changing" capability that extends the Steelhead appliance platform to deploy best-of-breed application services like print, dns/dhcp, and streaming media. In this podcast, Bob Gilbert discusses with Harold Byun, Riverbed's Senior Product Marketing Manager, the details about the features included in the new RiOS 5.0 release.
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Riverbed's Competitive Advantages in the Wide-area Data Services Market The wide-area data services market is gaining a lot of attention from companies that want to accelerate applications, optimize bandwidth, consolidate their branch office IT infrastructure, or accelerate their disaster recovery operations. Organizations have a lot of options when it comes to selecting a vendor that can address their wide-area data services needs. The task of selecting a vendor can be daunting as many vendors look the same on paper. In this edition of Riverbed Connect, Bob Gilbert sits down with Josh Tseng, Riverbed's Director of Technical Marketing to discuss the wide-area data services competitive landscape and how Riverbed's product stands out from the rest of the pack.
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Riverbed Connect 2007 year in review for Wide-area Data Services 2007 has been a banner year for Wide-area Data Services and for Riverbed Technology in particular. The Riverbed Connect podcast series launched in March to bring first hand knowledge and experiences covering Wide-area Data Services to a public audience. In Riverbed's final podcast of 2007, Bob Gilbert reflects back on the interviews and topics covered throughout the year.
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Riverbed Becomes the Bedrock of German Marshall Fund's Global Network Over 3000 customers have deployed Riverbed products to address a variety of challenges that are presented with their globally distributed branch office, data center, and mobile worker infrastructure. In this podcast, Bob Gilbert sits down with Michael O'Brien, IT Director for the German Marshall Fund to discuss how German Marshall Fund is looking to Riverbed to improve application performance, optimize replication, and simplify the IT infrastructure across the company's globally distributed business environment.
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Riverbed Releases RiOS 4.1 Software Update with Enhancements in Speed, Scalability, and Security Riverbed continues to extend its competitive lead in the wide-area data services arena with a software update to its Steelhead appliances that includes extended capabilities in the areas of application acceleration, scalability, and security. In this podcast, Bob Gilbert discusses with Harold Byun, Riverbed's Senior Product Marketing Manager, the details about the features included in the new RiOS 4.1 release.
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Network Transparency and Application Acceleration Application acceleration deployments should be simple. Vendors have worked hard to make the acceleration appliances network compatible, good network citizens, and easy to deploy and maintain. However, transparency is often raised as a critical consideration by some vendors when evaluating application acceleration devices. In this edition of Riverbed Connect, Bob Gilbert and Peter Sevcik, Vice President of NetForecast, discuss the topic of transparency and application acceleration.
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IT Gets a Big "Thank You" From Users? IT gets a big "thank you" from users? This is what happened to the IT staff at Thomas Weisel partners after they successfully installed Riverbed's Steelhead appliance in their complex network environment. In this installment of Riverbed Connect, Bob Gilbert sits down with Kevin Fiore, VP of Engineering Services at Thomas Weisel Partners as they discuss how deploying Riverbed's WDS product not only made the IT staff heroes, but also how seamless the deployment was in their complex infrastructure with critical services like VoIP, video, and QoS.
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Mobile Workforce Acceleration: In this installment of Riverbed Connect, Bob Gilbert and Travis Klasna, JEO Consulting's CAD Manager and IT assistant, review JEO's experience with Riverbed's Steelhead Mobile product and how it has impacted their business.
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Accelerating the Mobile Workforce with In this edition of Riverbed Connect, Bob Gilbert and Jess Leroy (Riverbed's Director of product Management) discuss Riverbed's Steelhead Mobile product and how it addresses the application performance issues that have plagued remote workers for years.
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Accelerating Secure Business Applications Bob Gilbert discusses with Mark Day, Riverbed's Chief Scientist, the details involving SSL encryption, SSL's impact on WAN optimization, and new wide-area data services techniques that result in dramatic performance gains of SSL-encrypted applications.
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Wide-area Data Services...What's all the hype about? Wide-area data services has been getting a lot of press lately as organizations are rapidly deploying WAN optimization solutions to address the challenges with poor performance of their wide area network and associated applications. In this first installment of the Riverbed connect podcast series, Bob Gilbert sits down with Apurva Dave', Riverbed's Director of Product Marketing and discusses the WDS market and how Riverbed's ground-breaking Steelhead appliance product is having a profound impact on organizations around the globe.
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The Business Impact of Performance Apurva Davé discusses the strategic impact of wide-area data services on your IT strategy with Peter Sevcik, industry analyst from NetForecast Analyst Group. The NetForecast paper "The Business Impact of Performance" is the focus of this discussion.
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Successful IT Consolidation Consolidation has been a very hot topic these days. In addition to the obvious capital savings, there are gains in terms of security, operations management, and application roll-out. In this podcast, Apurva Davé, Riverbed's Director of Product Marketing and Steve Smoot, VP of Technical Operations, discuss the topic of consolidation and how wide area data services plays into the performance aspect of consolidation.
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