Riverbed
Improve Application Performance with Wide-Area Data Services (WDS)

Given the importance of anytime, anywhere application access, IT departments are turning to wide-area data services to improve and accelerate application performance across the wide-area network (WAN). Using WDS, IT can provide LAN-like access to data and applications anywhere throughout the enterprise network, enabling real-time collaboration for users in branch offices and mobile workers all over the world.

Riverbed is the pioneer and market leader in WDS - 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
  • Challenges with slow remote data backup and replication
  • Increasing demands of the mobile workforce
Riverbed and Virtualisation
Riverbed Steelhead products take the threshold of flexibility for virtual machines to the next level. As the most comprehensive WDS solution on the market, Steelhead products work to enable end-to-end virtualisation for companies.


Riverbed and Virtualisation for Disaster Recovery
Many companies can now replicate virtual machine images to a remote DR site for faster recovery of server failures. In the event of a failure, the servers no longer need to be rebuilt, and the virtual servers give organizations hardware independence, so exact replicas of hardware do not need to be maintained at the DR site. With Riverbed’s acceleration, companies also won’t suffer performance degradation when they need to failover to a remote location, ensuring that users can access applications and information when they’ll be needed the most.


Branch Offices and VDI
With virtualisation and Riverbed, you now have a viable solution for virtualised, accelerated branch offices. Virtualising and consolidating the branch office IT can be accelerated over the WAN 10x, 20x or even 30x faster with wide-area data services (WDS), allowing users everywhere to work on centralised data as if it were local.

Leading organisations today are adopting desktop virtualisation to standardise the deployment of desktop images while also providing a secured environment for applications and data. Accelerate adoption of VDI with Riverbed.