Riverbed Technology

Riverbed Technology is the pioneer and, with over 4,000 customers, the worldwide technology and market share leader in wide-area data services (WDS). Riverbed provides the first and only comprehensive WDS solution to a host of severe problems that have effectively prevented enterprises from sharing applications and data across wide areas. By wide area, we mean anywhere in the world. Between Chicago and New York, or between Seattle and Shanghai.

Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead WDS appliances address all of the issues that affect application performance over the WAN, dramatically improving the performance of applications that companies and knowledge workers rely on every day - including file sharing, email, backup, document management systems, IT tools, as well as ERP and CRM solutions. With Riverbed, any of these applications can be accelerated somewhere between 5 and 50, and even up to 100 times faster.

In very simple terms, the impact for companies is the difference between having dial-up and having broadband. Suddenly, the impossible becomes possible, just like that.

Riverbed's wide-area data services technology enables companies to meet the demands of a distributed workforce and a globalizing marketplace.

With Riverbed, companies have the best of both worlds:

• simpler IT infrastructure
• LAN-like application performance across the WAN

This technology actually changes the way organizations work, enabling faster more reliable business processes that are no longer hindered by the locations of employees.

Solutions to the following issues:

• Multiple sites with data shared across a WAN
• Email, Windows applications, and database applications shared across the WAN
• Remote offices complaining of slow applications
• Considering adding bandwidth
• Thinking of consolidating servers to a data centre

Key Benefits:

• Delivers "LAN like performance" across the WAN
• Saves Bandwidth Costs
• Enables Consolidation of IT infrastructure
• Increases user productivity

Riverbed's flagship product, the Steelhead® appliance, is designed as an easy to use, easy to deploy appliance that can accelerate the performance of key enterprise applications by 5 to 50, and sometimes up to 100 times.