Riverbed White Papers

How to Improve Disaster Recovery for the Enterprise:

Ready to accelerate disaster recovery across your entire enterprise? Read this Taneja report to find out how you can increase WAN efficiency, overcome latency, and optimize IT performance for disaster recovery by deploying WAN optimization.

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Unleashing Cloud Performance

Want to eliminate spiraling cost and complexity of your IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance across your organization. In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.

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Accelerating the Cloud

To stay competitive and keep costs down, today's enterprises need to consolidate resources, quickly provision services, and more effectively rationalize costs with new business models. If done correctly, cloud computing can help solve these problems, and further help IT managers maintain business-critical applications and data. But there are numerous challenges that can prevent organizations from succeeding with cloud initiatives. This solution brief addresses those limitations, and looks at how Riverbed Technology helps you overcome them.

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ESG - Avoiding the Hazards of IT Consolidation

In an effort to reduce costs and streamline operations, today's large, distributed organizations are investing more in data center transformation, consolidation, and server virtualization. And yet many IT consolidation projects suffer from poor planning and implementation issues that ultimately impact application performance and user productivity. This technology brief investigates the processes and tools that are needed to provide complete enterprise visibility and WAN acceleration for high-priority traffic.

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Assessing ROI for Mobile Acceleration Clients

This ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA) paper examines the business case for deploying mobile WAN optimization client software and builds a Return on Investment (ROI) model based on the experiences that three organizations have had using Riverbed's Steelhead Mobile solution. The results indicate compelling ROI with paybacks that can reasonably be expected in six months or less.

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The Changing Requirements of WAN Optimization

Companies looking to drive greater IT performance will do well to begin their search with WAN optimization, which has evolved into a complete system that provides deep, actionable visibility. Read on to learn how WAN optimization works across the broad range of applications that enterprises use the most.

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Riverbed Services Platform Feature Brief

Consolidation and virtualization are hot trends in IT, helping organizations increase their flexibility in delivering valuable services and reduce costs. The enhanced Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP) provides customers with the capability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance.

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Accelerating Data Migration with WAN Optimization

Migrating large amounts of data over distance can be costly and time consuming. It's also necessary for IT tasks such as remote office backup, data center moves, and cloud computing models. The good news is that WAN optimization gets the job done effectively, efficiently, and affordably. Read this technology brief to learn how.

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Streamlined Data Protection - The Pain of Managing Tape Backups in Branch Offices

One of the greatest challenges today is effectively backing up and protecting the vast amounts of data stored throughout an organization. With WAN optimization, you can accelerate network-based backup by 5x and can reduce bandwidth use by up to 95%. Download this paper and learn more about this strategy today.

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Increase IT Performance from the Enterprise to the Cloud

WAN optimization plays an important role in today's highly distributed datacenters and cloud computing architectures. Massive consolidation and data mobility, enabled by virtualization, have radically altered how we build servers, design applications, and deploy storage for the emerging "cloud" decade. This paper discusses how Riverbed solutions effectively eliminate IT performance constraints in such environments.

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Five Considerations to Enable a More Agile Infrastructure

Conflicting trends in IT affect your ability to deliver a consistent high performance infrastructure for workers everywhere. Adding or rationing bandwidth, redeploying local resources, and tiering service levels don't fix your underlying problems. With WAN optimization solutions from Riverbed, the network can be transformed from a barrier to an enabler of your initiatives. Read this white paper to learn more.

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ESG - Practical Advice for Streamlining Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Solutions

To succeed and thrive, today's organizations must create network environments that enable them to continue operations or recover in the shortest possible time. This paper provides practical advice for maintaining a functional DR strategy, and for streamlining business continuity solutions.

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The CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure

Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster.

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Yankee Group Mobile WAN Optimization Report

Mobile work continues to evolve. Your organization must keep up with the demands of its mobile workforce. This report introduces the concept of mobile WAN optimization and provides three case studies including RCM, PRTM and Einstein that highlight how this emerging technology can help IT departments achieve what previously appeared to be conflicting goals.

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The CIO's Guide to Optimizing Virtual Desktops

Desktop virtualization promises many benefits, including simplified and standardized desktop support, greater consistency and control, and better security and compliance. But if customers want true desktop virtualization success, they would be well advised to evaluate WAN optimization solutions. Read this white paper to learn how Riverbed solutions can help you realize the full benefits of desktop virtualization.

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WAN Optimization: The Key to Effective Private Clouds

When it comes to cloud computing, WAN optimization isn't an option; it's a necessity. Read this technology brief to learn how addressing network limitations can make the difference between success and failure of a cloud-based system.

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Five Steps to Successful IT Consolidation

Mapping out a 5 step consolidation process can ensure that the goals of IT consolidation are achieved. Read this white paper to learn how to reduce IT management overhead, ease revision control, guarantee data security, scale systems more quickly and reduce server and software costs.

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The Cloud's 3 Stages of Evolution

Today's smart CIOs are assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each should run-locally or in the public cloud. Read on to learn about the benefits of cloud computing, and why its success or failure is often dependent on WAN optimization.

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Forrester: Top Mobile WAN Issues

Are your workers going increasingly mobile? Don't wait for their calls to slam Support when they experience poor application performance on the road. Discover in the Forrester report how companies are successfully deploying WAN optimization solutions that are specifically tuned for a mobile environment, delivering the acceleration needed to ensure consistent performance, room for new applications, and the ability to ensure end user productivity at all times.

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Defining Cloud Computing

Just what is cloud computing anyway? Skeptics might say it is nothing but industry hyperbole, visionaries might say it is the future of IT. In reality, both statements are true-cloud computing has been embellished by the tech industry, but it does hold real potential for new types of on-demand dynamic IT services. This paper seeks to clarify the definition of cloud computing, identify how far along users are in terms of cloud deployment, and examine the role of the network in the cloud computing model.

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