This Technology Spotlight describes the evolving requirements for IT to meet end-user performance expectations and the need for application delivery. In addition, this paper discusses benefits and challenges associated with application delivery solutions and trends driving growth. Finally, the paper looks at the role of Riverbed Technology as it plays a part in innovating in this strategically important market.

As reliance on cloud environments increases, organizations will need to address challenges in regard to networks and application delivery. This paper details questions posed by Riverbed Technology to Lucinda Borovick, program vice president of IDC’s Enterprise Communications and Datacenter Networks practice, on behalf of Riverbed Technology’s customers.

Riverbed has partnered with VMware to integrate the Stingray Traffic Manager application delivery controller (ADC), with VMware vFabric Application Director hybrid cloud application provisioning solution, enabling customers to provision and scale high performing multi-tier applications faster in a hybrid cloud environment, enabling higher level of application portability across cloud services and repeatable deployments of selected applications with standard deployment settings.

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute websites provide a platform for academics to access and compare research data. The solution Riverbed Stingray provided means the core web team can now make configuration changes in a matter of minutes and set up new sites quickly, giving the Institute confidence that researchers can locate and use information without fear of crashing the entire network.

IT departments must be able to support the needs of business and deliver capacity as needed. A big part of that need is leveraging public clouds. But public cloud usage within most enterprises today is a far cry from what’s needed, or wanted, by the enterprise CIO. HP CloudSystem offers an answer. With HP CloudSystem, you can safely burst workloads […]

When Xerox decided to offer cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS), the architects of the service realized fast, secure and reliable application performance would be critical to success of the new venture. Xerox Cloud Computing Services’ deployment of the Riverbed® Stingray™ Traffic Manager virtual application delivery controller (ADC) ensures scalability, high availability and optimized application performance in a multi-tenant environment.

Riverbed® Stingray® Aptimizer™ web content optimization (WCO) solution is set up on Web server for dramatic acceleration of web-based content and websites. It speeds page loads in a number of ways, such as by reducing the number of round trips made between the user’s browser and the server, and by dynamically optimizing HTML, JavaScript and image output from the server.

As the amount of information we generate grows, and as our relationship with information grows more complex, there is a race to innovate new products and services to help us harness information, manage it, and tap into it more easily. These new innovations allow us to connect more simply and effectively, when and how we like. This paper sponsored by […]