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While the cloud came with the promise of making business more efficient, it has actually increased complexity for corporate IT as organizations strive to transform for the digital age.
This complexity intensifies at the enterprise edge. Branch offices and other remote locations are critical to corporate success, but have become expensive roadblocks to digital transformation due to limited IT expertise, islands of aging infrastructure, inefficient operations, unreliable application performance, and massive volumes of unprotected data.
Factor in the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), and these challenges will only become more pronounced. With 30 billion IoT devices expected by 2020, the resulting growth in data generated and stored at the edge will overtax legacy IT operations and expose the business to increased risk.
All of this is creating a new focus for IT: the edge. And how well IT does at the edge will drive how well the organization does overall.
Eliminate these barriers to digital transformation with Riverbed’s Cloud Edge solution, which combines cloud networking, storage caching, and high-performance compute into a single and extensible software-defined platform. By physically separating compute and storage, the solution enables you to efficiently deploy and manage the right set of apps, data, and network services to support the unique requirements of any edge location—from remote offices to IoT devices to other connected machines.
Instead of installing costly infrastructure at every location, data is collapsed into the data center or cloud where it is 100% secure. Application users still benefit from superior, local-like experiences at the edge, and all IT operations are managed from a central location to bring unprecedented levels of agility, performance, efficiency, and security to your digital business.
The Cloud Edge: Delivering unprecedented performance, agility, and security for the digital era
Cloud Edge: A breakthrough solution to modernize edge IT for the digital era
IUCN improves application performance by 80% in support of global conservation efforts.
The results were powerful and immediate. We saw a 60-70% reduction of traffic on the network with SteelHead. But just as big of an achievement for us as the acceleration is the visibility. With SteelCentral NetExpress we were able to see we had legacy equipment and misconfigured applications hogging valuable bandwidth, and address it immediately. That level of insight is critical for us as our network expands and moves further into the cloud.Dean Coulter, ICT Infrastructure Manager, RFDS (Queensland Section)
Digital transformation has enabled the entire county government, from the dog warden to the courts, to better serve constituents.
When we can do things from an IT perspective behind the scenes, and it results in things being better and faster for the users, transformation can happen real quickly.Ralph T. Meacham, County Auditor, Mahoning County, Ohio Information Technology Department
Using insight from SteelCentral, KLX created a global network that relies on SteelHead and SteelFusion appliances and SteelHead SaaS to ensure data security and good application performance worldwide.
Riverbed is one of those technologies that improves the performance of your systems while reducing your total costs.Jack Ortman, Managing Director, Infrastructure at KLX , KLX
Riverbed’s Cloud Edge is a modularized solution offering a number of industry-leading capabilities, allowing you to easily match your needs on a site-by-site basis. From sites leveraging Internet-only networks to connect to SaaS apps and data, to stateful sites requiring their own storage and server infrastructure, Cloud Edge is custom-aligned to every location across your distributed business.
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SteelCentral combines user experience, infrastructure, application, and network monitoring for a holistic view of application performance.
Bring agility and simplicity to the network to keep pace with the most aggressive software development and release cycles.
SteelFusion delivers a modern, cloud-like experience to IT organizations managing increasingly complex, mission-critical ROBO locations in today’s digital world.
Get a better understanding of your branch IT environment while becoming more tightly aligned with future business requirements
Understand the current state of your branch networks and be confident in implementing an SD-WAN strategy
Be more confident that your network is performing its most vital task: Delivering business-critical apps to end users
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