"The aggregate analysis yields a three-year ROI of 457 percent and a payback period of 6.9 months."
— Improving the Business Value of WAN Optimization, IDC, 2010
When you consolidate IT assets, many IT resources are moved far away from the end users. Riverbed can deliver fast, LAN-like performance without the need to upgrade the WAN. We’ll help you eliminate redundant operating costs, save on disaster recovery, and cut bandwidth costs.
Riverbed WAN optimization solutions accelerate all three key points of your business: the data center, branch offices, and mobile workers. Our technology suite of Steelhead® and Cascade® products allows your IT department to serve distributed users all over the world. Now there's no need for local servers in remote locations and no need to buy expensive bandwidth upgrades. For many Riverbed customers, the payback period is a matter of months.
Cut server costs and routine IT maintenance
Enable IT consolidation and virtualization for your branch office. Eliminate underutilized, hard-to-manage servers in remote locations and replace them with WAN optimization to guarantee the same level of end-user performance. This lowers costs and capital expenditures usually spent on refreshing servers.
Have IT administrators manage fewer, large servers in a central location as opposed to potentially thousands of remote devices. As a result, end users notice little or no change in their daily operations, and this improves maintenance cycles.
Invest in disaster recovery, spend less over the years
Today, governments require businesses to protect their data to meet industry regulations. But this is costly. With WAN optimization, data can be comprehensively backed up and replicated regularly and consumes less of your network resources. That means data is backed up more frequently with less investment.
Push out network upgrades by two years or more
WAN optimization fundamentally allows businesses to get more out of the infrastructure they already have. Your business can accommodate more growth and more users without investing in additional networking infrastructure and bandwidth.
Read Fast Facts: 10 Reasons to Deploy WAN Optimization in a Downturn
