Cut costs and improve performance with WAN optimization

Given the importance of anytime, anywhere application access, IT departments are turning to WAN optimization to improve and accelerate application performance across the wide-area network (WAN). Using WAN optimization, IT can provide LAN-like access to data and applications anywhere throughout the enterprise, enabling real-time collaboration for users in branch offices and mobile workers all over the world. At the same time, businesses can cut costs of operating IT infrastructure and get better visibility into how well applications are performing.

Riverbed is the pioneer and market leader in WAN optimization- the first comprehensive solution to a host of severe problems that plague enterprise applications operating across the WAN including:

• Poor application performance
• Insufficient, expensive or congested network bandwidth into remote offices
• Difficulties in IT consolidation & virtualization
• Challenges with slow remote data backup and replication
• Increasing demands of the mobile workforce
• Lack of visibility into networks, applications, and servers

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A Complete WAN optimization Solution

In the first session of this ongoing, on-demand presentation series, we introduce you to the complete WAN optimization solution and explain how it's the fabric that binds your enterprise together. (Running time: 5:47). Watch Now

Riverbed's market-leading WAN optimization solutions address all of the issues that affect application performance over the WAN, improving the throughput of applications enterprises rely on every day - including file sharing, email, backup, SSL, document management systems, and IT tools, as well as ERP and CRM solutions. Riverbed gives businesses the ability to accelerate applications while cutting costs and enhancing visibility as well.

Using WAN optimization, enterprises can improve application performance across the network typically by 5 to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, and can simultaneously reduce WAN bandwidth utilization by 65 to 95%. Businesses can consolidate servers into data centers more effectively, virtualize services and applications at the network edge to reduce costs further, and use new, enhanced performance analysis tools which allow businesses to more effectively align their IT strategy with their business strategy. These dramatic results allow businesses to take advantage of their networks, infrastructure, and applications in ways that they had never imagined possible.

Improving application performance has tangible, meaningful benefits for organizations of all sizes. Enterprises use WAN optimization to meet the following needs:

• Accelerate applications across the wide area network
• Reduce WAN bandwidth utilization
• Enable IT Consolidation
• Optimize Disaster Recovery
• Accelerate mobile workers
• Enhance Visibility and manage application performance