Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Wed, January 7, 2009
Riverbed Technology: Riverbed Customer Named to InfoWorld 100
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - January 7, 2009) - Riverbed Technology (
Riverbed offers a complete WAN optimization solution that accelerates applications and data for remote offices, data centers, and mobile workers across wide area networks (WANs), accelerating access to applications and data up to 100 times faster. The speed delivered by Riverbed solutions allows organizations to be more nimble, flexible and competitive by enabling IT consolidation without sacrificing user performance, allowing higher productivity for remote offices, eliminating end user frustration caused by slow applications, dramatically shortening backup and replication times, reducing traffic on WANs, and even enabling significant improvements in mobile worker productivity. Over 5,000 customers, over a wide range of markets, have implemented Riverbed WAN optimization solutions across their geographically dispersed organizations.
Canadian Cancer Society Selects Riverbed to Consolidate IT, Speed Data Transfer
Canadian Cancer Society, Ontario Division, selected and successfully deployed Riverbed Steelhead® appliances to consolidate its IT resources for data protection, while also benefiting from substantial data transfer acceleration. Currently the Society's Ontario division has one provincial office and 36 community offices. More than 65,000 volunteers work with about 470 dedicated staff members across the province.
The search for a solution began when staff at the Society's Ontario division realized they needed to replace some old legacy servers. Gerry Holmes, the division's director of information technology, reviewed several options, including a costly network and server upgrade. After some research, Holmes determined that even with the upgrade option the Society would not receive the same performance increases that a Riverbed implementation would provide. Additionally, if the upgraded network or servers went down, the Society's remote sites could be out of commission for days before replacement equipment could be shipped to the site and a technician could install it.
After a successful pilot program, the Society deployed over 40 Riverbed Steelhead appliances and the Central Management Console to manage all the Steelhead appliances from a central location. This enabled the consolidation of 35 file servers, which reduced the maintenance load for the small IT department and enabled better data protection for its staff. The Steelhead appliances provided the Society's users with LAN-like application performance across the WAN with mission-critical applications including its CRM system, Exchange 2003 and Citrix. The overall process resulted in end user satisfaction and improved collaboration and productivity across all of its locations.
"By implementing Riverbed's solution, we were able to consolidate file servers from our more remote sites, which reduced the maintenance load for our IT department and also enabled us to provide better data protection for our staff," said Holmes. "Riverbed's products also gave our end users LAN-like application performance across the wide area network (WAN), which ensured end user satisfaction and improved collaboration across all of our locations."
The deployment of the Steelhead appliances allowed the organization to avoid the costs of upgrading legacy servers, which ranges from $5,000 - $6,000 each, in addition to avoiding the manpower requirements associated with maintenance, such as nightly back-ups. The ease of deployment and maintenance also allowed the Society in Ontario to avoid hiring new staff members and thus direct more resources to its mission, which is to eradicate cancer and enhance the quality of life of people living with cancer.
To read more about the 2008 InfoWorld 100 list, please go to: [ http://www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=116977 ]
Steelhead Products
Riverbed solutions enable organizations of all sizes to overcome a host of severe problems, including poor application performance and insufficient bandwidth at remote sites. By speeding the performance of applications between data centers, remote offices and mobile workers by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, the Riverbed award-winning Steelhead products enable companies to consolidate IT, improve backup and replication processes to ensure data integrity, and improve staff productivity and collaboration. Steelhead products have been deployed in organizations ranging from the world's largest corporations with offices around the globe to small companies with a couple of sites that are just miles apart. To learn more, view Riverbed's demo: [ www.riverbed.com/pr/jack ].
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the expected demand for Riverbed's products and services, and statements relating to Riverbed's ability to meet the needs of distributed organizations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include our ability to react to trends and challenges in our business and the markets in which we operate; our ability to anticipate market needs or develop new or enhanced products to meet those needs; the adoption rate of our products; our ability to establish and maintain successful relationships with our distribution partners; our ability to compete in our industry; fluctuations in demand, sales cycles and prices for our products and services; shortages or price fluctuations in our supply chain; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; general political, economic and market conditions and events; and other risks and uncertainties described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information about these and other risks that may impact Riverbed's business are set forth in our Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on October 30, 2008. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Any future product, feature or related specification that may be referenced in this release are for information purposes only and are not commitments to deliver any technology or enhancement. Riverbed reserves the right to modify future product plans at any time.
About Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the technology and market leader in WAN optimization solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. Additional information about Riverbed (
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