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When ABD Insurance & Financial needed to optimize the connection between its remote data centers and more, Riverbed was able to meet their diverse needs. 

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Microsoft Exchange Acceleration

Microsoft Exchange performs poorly on WANs — so much that large enterprises often deploy distributed Exchange servers to support their local users. However maintaining many Exchange servers is expensive and complex, and often puts critical, confidential data at risk. While most IT managers would prefer a centralized Exchange architecture, they face severe performance issues for their remote users..

By deploying Riverbed® Steelhead® appliances, users in remote offices can access Exchange servers in a centralized and distant data center with roughly the same responsiveness as a local mail server. Distributing Steelhead Mobile on workers' laptops can extend these benefits even further by ensuring that email is accelerated, regardless of where a user attempts to connect. Riverbed can even help you avoid the early morning WAN congestion caused by the first login of remote users. By pre-populating Steelhead appliances with users' email and attachments, there's virtually no incremental traffic when they log in first thing in the morning.

Riverbed’s SDR feature also removes all redundancy from WAN traffic — including common email challenges like “reply to all”, which can plague WAN links by generating many copies of an email, and email with large attachments, in which multiple copies of the file would otherwise be sent across the WAN, bringing other applications to a halt.

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Application Layer Exchange Acceleration: Exchange 2010, 2007, and 2003

Riverbed was the first WAN optimization vendor to provide an application-layer protocol optimization for Exchange 2003 for both office and mobile workers, and has continued to improve the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS®) to bring Layer 7 optimization to Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010. RiOS recognizes Exchange traffic in native mode and applies specific enhancements to significantly improve performance in both unencrypted and encrypted modes. Thousands of Riverbed customers have leveraged this optimization to consolidate their Microsoft Exchange servers, without sacrificing performance for end users.

With RiOS 6.5, Steelhead delivers industry-first optimization for Outlook Anywhere. Riverbed has combined its ability to optimize HTTPS with new RPC optimizations to simultaneously accelerate Outlook Anywhere and reduce the application's bandwidth consumption. Users can work faster and more productively with Steelhead and Outlook Anywhere than ever before.

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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.