This informative ESG Lab report examines the Riverbed® Steelhead EX + Granite™ appliance, which delivers a powerful combination of wide area network (WAN) optimization, a virtual services platform, and innovative block-storage optimization to help organizations consolidate servers and storage and deliver IT services globally, while ensuring the performance required in remote and branch offices. Download this informative report now to […]

Alamos Gold’s mining and exploration operations in Mexico and Turkey generate huge volumes of data. Alamos avoided the costs of deploying servers at each site by implementing Riverbed solutions. With Steelhead CX and Granite appliances in its Toronto data center and Steelhead EX appliances in Mexico and Turkey, Alamos found a consolidated approach for deploying IT in distant locations.  

Riverbed Granite enables a new edge virtual server infrastructure (Edge-VSI) architectural approach that does for edge servers what virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) did for desktops – allow IT to consolidate and manage branch resources in the data center. With Granite, global enterprises can finally achieve complete consolidation of edge applications, servers and storage to the data center.  

Companies embrace SaaS products like Microsoft® Office 365, Google Apps, and Salesforce.com®, for their flexibility and potential savings. However, companies must recognize the limitations of operating outside the branch and handle the challenges resulting from the public Internet acting as an extension of their corporate infrastructure. Learn how enterprises must tackle these challenges for SaaS applications to remain a viable […]

The enterprise adoption of SaaS-based applications can result in lower overall costs and reduced implementation times; but with the delay and packet loss associated with both the Internet and with private WANs, SaaS-based applications tend to exhibit erratic performance that can become a barrier to furtherSaaS adoption. However, a new class of optimized hybrid WAN that combines the best practices […]

Employees are bringing personal devices into work more than ever. IT departments need to do more than keep up – they have to stay one step ahead. “Employees want to work on their terms, integrating their personal lives with their work lives, including their technology.” This Inc. brief explores how to create an IT environment with cloud-based remote support and […]

IT departments are under pressure to deliver higher-performance services worldwide. To achieve this, they must transform their datacenters using a combination of consolidation, virtualization, and automation in order extend the datacenter’s virtual edge to branch offices where services are delivered locally from centrally managed infrastructure. Download to learn about the changing role of branch IT in the age of datacenter […]

Mobile work, and an increasing reliance on applications such as e-mail and SharePoint, is an increasingly crucial part of their day-to-day business. Mobile WAN optimization technology helps improve the performance of these applications, no matter where the user is located or how the worker is connected; and can defer expensive network and hardware upgrades while reducing mobile support costs.