IBM
With more than 175,000 professionals working with clients in 170 countries, IBM Global Services is the world's largest business services provider and has been providing outsourcing services to industry-leading clients for many decades.
Through a Global Alliance Relationship Agreement, Riverbed and IBM provide combined market-leading WAN optimization solutions. Together, Riverbed and IBM recognize the need to focus on core competencies and maximize respective competitive advantages in the marketplace. This alliance provides focused coordination to provide innovative and effective combined solutions by drawing on the knowledge, expertise, and resources of both companies. Organizations across all industries can be confident that Riverbed and IBM business processes are positioned to deliver these combined solutions that provide high value to clients.
IBM's clients span many different kinds of enterprises, from sole proprietorships to the world's largest organizations, including governments and companies representing every major industry and endeavor. The majority of the company's enterprise business occurs in industries that are broadly grouped into six sectors:
- Financial Services: Banking, Financial Markets, Insurance
- Public: Education, Government, Healthcare, Life Sciences
- Industrial: Aerospace, Automotive, Defense, Chemical and Petroleum, Electronics
- Distribution: Consumer Products, Retail, Travel, Transportation
- Communications: Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment, Energy
and Utilities
- Small and Medium Business: Mainly companies with fewer than 1,000 employees
Riverbed and IBM have also developed a strong technology alliance which enables both companies to draw on the knowledge, expertise and resources of one another to deliver comprehensive solutions for our customers. Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances deliver great results with IBM Global Mirror replication technology to optimize WAN traffic for business continuity and disaster recovery applications, and for optimizing storage and recovery for IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager (TSM) deployments. Recently, Riverbed has worked with IBM to qualify the Steelhead appliances with IBM’s next-generation SAN Storage platform, XIV.
The qualification covers:
- IBM XIV Storage System (10.2.x)
- Steelhead xx50/x50 appliances running RiOS 6.0.1i and higher
Riverbed. WAN-Optimierung für Ihr Netzwerk: Anwendungsbeschleunigung, WAN-Bandbreitenoptimierung und IT-Konsolidierung
Riverbed ist das Unternehmen für IT-Performance. Die WAN-Optimierungslösungen von Riverbed befreien Unternehmen von den üblichen IT-Zwängen. Sie erhöhen die Performance von Anwendungen, ermöglichen die Konsolidierung und bieten firmenweite Netzwerk- und Anwendungstransparenz, ohne dass deswegen die Bandbreite, die Speicherkapazität oder die Serverzahl erhöht werden muss. Tausende Unternehmen vertrauen auf Riverbed, um eine bessere Produktivität und Kostenersparnisse zu erzielen, indem sie ihre IT-Infrastruktur schneller, kostengünstiger und dynamischer gestalten. Riverbed-Lösungen sind über ausgewählte Anbieter auch als Managed Services verfügbar.