Virtual Desktop: Opportunities, Challenges, and Successful Deployment

For years, the promise of virtual desktop environments with its savings, security, and flexibility has been touted as the "next big thing" in IT. But the reality has often failed to live up to the hype. Now, with the rise in popularity of consolidation and centralized architectures, organizations are once again exploring the possibilities within virtual desktop, and engaging WAN optimization solutions like Riverbed Steelhead to help them deliver LAN-like performance across their network.

Join Riverbed Marketing Manager Joe Ghory and Simpson Strong-Tie Global IT Operations Manager Eugene Alfaro for this informative webinar. You'll learn how you can leverage WAN optimization and tackle the common challenges associated with virtual desktop technologies. Attend this session so you can learn how to:

• Overcome the obstacles facing you during virtual desktop migration
• Guarantee maximum deployment performance with our recommendations
• Leverage existing indicatives to support your virtual environment

Watch this on-demand webinar anytime. You'll discover why thousands of companies trust Riverbed to virtualize their networks fast – and bring the world closer.

Enhance Your Riverbed Deployment — An Online Workshop

Now that you have implemented WAN optimization solutions from Riverbed, you are achieving real results by optimizing bandwidth and accelerating key business applications. The question is: Are you getting the maximum benefits from your Riverbed deployment? What if you could speed up applications even more or do things you couldn't do before just by making a few tweaks?

Join Riverbed product expert Bob Gilbert for the second installment of this multi-part online customer webinar series. We'll discuss how you can enhance your Steelhead appliance and Steelhead Mobile deployment through software updates, product additions, and software tweaks. Attend this session and learn how to:

• Get the most out of your current deployment with the latest Riverbed product releases like RiOS 6.0 and Steelhead Mobile 3.0
• Leverage Riverbed Cascade to achieve end-to-end network and application visibility
• Tweak RiOS settings to improve thin client applications like Citrix and RDP
• Reach out to the Riverbed community to resolve problems, learn more about Riverbed products, and connect with current customers

Watch this on-demand webinar anytime. You'll be glad you did!

Do You Cloud? — A Practical “How-to” Strategy for Adopting Private Cloud Computing
- Produced by Riverbed

Right now, the topic of “cloud computing” is on everyone’s lips but usually only in vague terms. You don’t need buzz words. You need some practical advice and real life approaches to realizing its benefits. And you also need helpful information on how to tackle servers, networks, storage, consolidation, virtualization, and data protection. So how do you begin to build your private, public or hybrid cloud strategy? How do you avoid making simple mistakes along the way? No problem.
Join Riverbed expert Nik Rouda as he discusses how you can quickly and easily adopt a private cloud computing strategy. There will also be practical examples of current customers who’ve had major success with their own cloud initiatives. In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Define various types of cloud environments
• Address some of the barriers to adoption
• Solve lagging performance bottlenecks
• Plan for disaster recovery in the cloud

Watch this on-demand webinar anytime. You’ll discover why thousands of customers trust Riverbed to break the cloud performance barrier and bring the world closer.

Advanced Virtualization: Now What?
- Produced by Riverbed

So, you've already virtualized your data center servers? Felt pretty good, didn't it? You saved some money, consolidated, and got some flexibility – not bad. So what's next? You might have discovered that you didn't know what you didn't know. Perhaps you're having issues with backup and replication of your virtual environment. Maybe you've encountered problems with performance moving VMs across the WAN. So, are you looking for what you might virtualize next, perhaps branch office servers or users' desktops?

Join us for this on-demand webinar as Riverbed expert Nik Rouda discusses how you can improve performance and extend your success with virtualization. In this session, you'll gain valuable insight into the top challenges facing you like:

• How do I get better performance for data protection and recovery?
• What was that about a "server-less branch office"?
• Hey, why is my virtual desktop so slow?
• Do I really have to upgrade my WAN?
• Will it blend?

Tune in to this essential on-demand webinar anytime. You'll discover how you can take advanced virtualization to the next level with Riverbed.

Accelerating Virtualised Data Centres
- Produced by Riverbed

What's the connection between VMware virtualisation and WAN acceleration with Riverbed? It's deeper than you might think.

Join Riverbed Senior Director Marketing & Alliances Mark Lewis and VMware Technical Alliances Manager Rod Stokes as we explore how virtualised data centres can be accelerated with WAN optimization. With Riverbed, virtual machines can be moved and replicated over the WAN 10x, 20x or even 30x faster. Bandwidth requirements can be reduced to produce even greater cost savings, and users everywhere will be able to work on centralised data as if it were local. We'll also present real customer case studies so you can see these solutions in practice.

Attend so you can learn how two of today's hottest technologies:

• Complement each other to consolidate infrastructure
• Enhance disaster recovery strategies
• Simplify IT infrastructure globally

Don't miss this must-see webinar. You'll discover why over 5,000 customers trust Riverbed to accelerate applications, consolidate infrastructure, and optimise bandwidth so their businesses can stay competitive.

How to Prevent WAN Latency from Impacting Virtualization and Consolidation Success
- Produced by Riverbed

Ready to take your IT virtual? Be careful. There is a hidden danger inherent in many virtualization projects. As you consolidate your mission critical servers and applications out of branch offices and back into the datacenter, you could introduce performance problems due to increased latency over your wide area network (WAN). This lag causes applications to become unacceptably slow for remote workers and threatens the success of your otherwise brilliant IT initiative.

Join Riverbed Product Marketing Manager Nik Rouda and Ziff Davis's own Michael Krieger as we delve into what will make your virtualization and consolidation projects truly successful. You will be surprised to discover new approaches to optimize your bandwidth, overcome latency, and accelerate applications for a virtualized IT infrastructure.

Attend so you can learn how to:

• Solve WAN latency and accelerate applications
• Deploy virtual packages to remote locations
• Get better results from your network without incurring new operating costs
• Improve your disaster recovery results in virtualized environments

Don't miss this insightful webinar. You'll discover why over 5,000 customers trust Riverbed to bring the world closer. And be sure to bring your questions to our live Q&A session following the presentation.

Accelerate Your Virtual Environment
- Produced by Riverbed

What's the connection between virtualization and acceleration? It's deeper than you might think. In this presentation, learn how two of today's hottest technologies complement each other to consolidate infrastructure, enhance disaster recovery strategies, and simplify IT infrastructure globally. We'll also present real customer case studies so you can see these solutions in practice.

Watch this on-demand webinar anytime.