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 optimization for your network: Application acceleration, WAN bandwidth optimization, and IT consolidation
Riverbed Technology delivers performance for the globally connected enterprise. With Riverbed, enterprises can successfully and intelligently implement strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery without fear of compromising performance. By giving enterprises the platform they need to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT, Riverbed helps enterprises to build a fast, fluid and dynamic IT architecture that aligns the business needs of the organization. Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.
