STEELHEAD MOBILE OPTIMIZATION

SteelHead Mobile is the #1 mobile optimization solution for enterprise applications

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With SteelHead Mobile, your mobile employees will access files and applications up to 100 times faster

SteelHead Mobile extends best in class optimization and application acceleration to remote and mobile workers. Your mobile employees will access files and applications up to 100 times faster.

The infrastructure problems of a distributed workforce - network delays, slow application responses and inconsistent connectivity from changing locations - evaporate completely for improved mobile employee productivity.

Through a simple software package installed transparently on laptops, desktops and now on Surface tablets, SteelHead Mobile:

Improves productivity for on-the-go workers and branch offices
Accelerates business-critical web applications up to 60x
Reduces bandwidth by up to 99%

SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile manages SteelHead Mobile licenses and controls the deployment, management, and reporting of SteelHead Mobile client software.

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Application Performance Optimization

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How SteelHead Mobile Works

SteelHead Mobile provides a performance optimization solution for remote and mobile workers.

App acceleration

Uses URL learning, page parsing, embedded object pre-fetching, and metadata acceleration modes
Supports Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Windows applications (for example, SMBv2, Outlook anywhere, Kerberos), Intranet portals, document management systems, and ERP and CRM applications (for example, SAP NetWeaver, JD Edwards, Siebel)
Supports Windows 10 and Microsoft Surface tablets

Scalable Control

Easily scales network performance to hundreds of thousands of mobile users
Manages the configuration policies that determine what optimizations take place per user or groups of users
Centrally manages concurrent user licenses and the software clients for SteelHead Mobile at no extra cost with SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile

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Benefit With Improved Productivity, Streamlined IT, Enhanced Visibility and Control

Improved Mobile Worker Productivity

Accelerates business-critical applications up to 60x
Reduces bandwidth by up to 99%
Eliminates performance problems caused by bandwidth constraints, latency, and competition among applications

Streamlined IT Management and Reduces Support Costs for Mobile Workers

Provides an integrated mobile worker, branch office, and data center solution
Transforms global enterprise data centers to support large-scale mobile deployments
Scales to support up to 20,000 concurrent active Mobile clients

Visibility and Control with SteelCentral Mobile Controller for SteelHead Mobile

Provides ease of provisioning and management with simplified policy configuration, interactive graphs, and reporting
Delivers improved visibility with end user monitoring for all optimized traffic on premise and now including optimized web and SaaS applications
Supports end-to-end network monitoring and reporting through seamless integration with SteelCentral NetProfiler

With Steelhead Mobile, we can empower our mobile workers with huge productivity gains. Now if they are working at a hotel or at a job site, they can get LAN-like access to all of the important data they need to get the job done properly

Joe Potegal

Senior Network Engineer

Golder Associates

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What Can You Save? What Can You Gain?

IDC conducted detailed interviews with nine organizations to understand the impact of optimizing the delivery of business applications with Riverbed SteelHead.

IDC calculates that organizations will realize benefits worth an average of $27,014 per 100 users ($7.23 million per organization) per year over three years, which translates to a projected three-year return on investment (ROI) of 497%.

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Infographic: SteelHead, the ROI Winner

Customer Stories for SteelHead Mobile

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Technical Specifications

Need help choosing the SteelHead product that’s right for your organization?

Learn more about the technical characteristics and requirements of each model in the SteelHead Specs sheets.

SteelHead Mobile
Operating System	Version 4.6 & earlier Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 (32 bit versions only); Vista and Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit versions). Windows 8 (32 bit and 64 bit versions), Mac OSX 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8	Version 4.7 Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit), Windows 8 (32 and 64 bit), 8.1 (64 bit), Mac OSX 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10	Version 4.8 Windows 10 (32 & 64 bit), Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit), Windows 8 (32 & 64 bit), 8.1 (64 bit), Mac OSX 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10
CPU	1GHz or higher
Memory	2GB or higher
Data Store	256 MB free disk space (min. required)
VSP CPU & Memory Requirements	Minimum 1 CPU (1GHz or higher) & 3 GB or higher
SteelHead Appliance(1)	Minimum 1 Physical (CX, EX), Virtual (VCX) or Cloud SteelHead (CCX) needed on the Server Side

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	Download: SteelHead Family Brochure

Featured Resources

White Paper

Tackling the Challenges of a Remote and Mobile Workforce

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Data & Spec Sheets

SteelHead Mobile Data Sheet

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Use Cases

SteelHead for Accelerating Applications to and from Mobile Workers

SteelHead Services

Lifecycle consulting services to help you fast-track your deployments, ensure ongoing success, and optimize the business value of your SteelHead investments.