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Riverbed Technology, Inc. Reduces Costs and Scales WDS Management With Oracle Berkeley DB: Riverbed Technology wanted to collect and store application and network performance data from Steelhead WDS appliances deployed at remote sites into the Steelhead Central Management Console (CMC) and collect and store application and network performance data from Steelhead Mobile software deployed to mobile users into the Steelhead Mobile Controller (SMC)....; Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Oracle Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing; Case studies 2008-02-01
5 Steps to IT Consolidation Whitepaper: CIOs are making the strategic choice to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers. But consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. This paper, presented by Riverbed, presents a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is...; Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Information Technology, IT Consolidation, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management; White papers 2007-11-21
Accelerate Disaster Recovery: Accelerating disaster recovery is a requirement in today's business environment. There is no room for downtime, and lost data is a competitive liability. View this Webcast, featuring Harold Byun from Riverbed Technology, to learn how advancements in wide-area data services (WDS) can reduce RPOs and RTOs even more. Hear featured...; Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Disaster Recovery, Data Management; Webcasts 2007-10-11
WAN optimization for mobile users is critical to your business success: Don't lag behind! Get the FREE Forrester report on its study, "Optimizing Users and Applications in a Mobile World," to learn how deploying a WAN optimization solution can give you: Consistent access to and performance of all applications Room for the introduction of new business applications...; Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Mobile, Optimization, WANs, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Networking, Marketing; White papers 2007-10-01
Accelerate Your Virtual Environment: What's the connection between virtualization and acceleration? It's deeper than you might think. In this presentation, featuring Harold Byun of Riverbed Technology, learn how two of today's hottest technologies complement each other to consolidate infrastructure, enhance disaster recovery strategies, and simplify IT infrastructure globally. Real customer case studies are also...; Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Environment, Customer Case Study, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Strategy, Data Management, Hardware, Storage, Management; Webcasts 2007-09-20

Adding Business Value with Wide-Area Data Services (WDS): Are you looking for a comprehensive solution that addresses insufficient or congested bandwidth, impaired application performance, slow remote backup and replication, or obstacles to IT consolidation? This IDC paper explains how Riverbed, whose product line--the Steelhead family of appliances--optimizes TCP/IP traffic, addresses these issues with a single...; Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Tcp/Ip, LANs, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2007-08-01
ESG Lab Field Audit: Riverbed Wide-area Data Services - Complimenting Existing LAN and WAN Infrastructure from Cisco: Many companies have successfully implemented Riverbed WDS solutions within their Cisco networks. This ESG Lab Field Audit documents the success that these Riverbed customers have experienced with a focus on configurations and installation experiences. Download this paper today and learn how Riverbed technology supports valuable networking technologies including PoE, VoIP...; Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Audit, LAN, Cisco Systems Inc., WANs, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2007-07-01
Accelerating Secure Business Applications: Read this Riverbed Feature Brief for details involving SSL encryption, SSL's impact on WAN optimization, and new wide-area data services techniques that result in dramatic performance gains of SSL-encrypted applications.; Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Business Application, SSL, Ssl/Tls, Authentication/Encryption, Network Security, Security, Networking; White papers 2007-03-07
Five Ugly Truths about WAFS and Caching: Why caching can't meet the enterprise application acceleration challenge: Wide Area File Systems (WAFS) and caching are two approaches used to accelerate specific applications over WANs. They sound good in theory -- "saving bandwidth and making files go faster over the WAN" -- but did you know there are serious limitations in the architecture of these approaches? ...; Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Acceleration, Enterprise Application, WANs, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2006-04-01
Psomas Achieves Global Work-Sharing and Accelerates the Mobile Worker: This case study describes how Psomas, a leading global consulting engineering firm, implemented Riverbed solutions to accelerate application performance for remote office employees as well as mobile workers. After considering bandwidth upgrades and point products, they decided to go with the Riverbed Steelhead appliance and the Steelhead...; Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Mobile, Worker, Psomas, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; Case studies 2005-09-01

Additional Resources

Why HP-EDS is a disaster in the making: As I've noted elsewhere HP's takeover of Compaq destroyed essentially all of HP's pre-takeover value and left the Compaq organization operating as HP. Now they've announced their intention of taking over EDS. On the good news side there won't be a culture clash in bringing these...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Investment, Finance, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-13
EDS internal memo on the HP purchase: HP acquired EDS in a deal valued roughly at $12.8 billion. The move was outlined Tuesday morning amid a healthy dose of skepticism. Here's a memo from EDS CEO Ron Rittenmeyer, who will now report to HP CEO Mark Hurd. To the EDS Worldwide Team: Today...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Branding, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Olympus E-520 dSLR debuts: Cue "The Price is Right" music -- Olympus E-520 dSLR, come on down! In today's news, Olympus announced their E-520 this morning, the replacement for the E-510. Notable improvements in the new body include sensor-shift stabilization (including an updated system with a mode that...; Tags: Body, Olympus Corp., ISO, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Pricing, Quality, Business Operations, Marketing, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Combined HP-EDS can explore missing methodology around how to offload IT to the cloud(s): HP's now official pending EDS buy for just shy of $14 billion positions the combined companies to organize and manage the hosted/on-premises mix to maximum efficiency and lowest TCO. It's a great goal to shoot for because all they have to do is beat IBM. With this...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., End Goal, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-13
HP's bid for EDS: Opportunity costs loom: The debate around Hewlett-Packard's purchase of Electronic Data Systems follows three primary questions. Is the EDS acquisition another Compaq--a deal that will take years to pay off? Is EDS the right acquisition for HP? Are there other places where HP should spend its money? HP on Tuesday...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Dennis, Tools & Techniques, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Still ranting about interfaces: My argument, yesterday, that how an application is to be used is more determinative of the right toolset for building it than what the application does, embeds the assumption that the people we sell our software or development ideas to, either are end users or make decisions on the basis...; Tags: Corel WordPerfect, Standards, Word Processors, Quality, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Software, Business Operations, Office Suites, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-13
THE SUN FIRE X4600 M2 SERVER AND PROVEN VIRTUALISATION SCALABILITY: Nearly every Information Technology organisation is using consolidation, or is considering using consolidation, as a way to reduce both capital and operating costs. IT organisations with a number of applications running on older, inefficient, and under-utilised servers can consolidate them onto a smaller number of high-performance, energy-efficient servers that can...; Tags: Virtualization, Information Technology, Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2008-05-13
Olympus announces new E-520 midrange DSLR update: Olympus has finally announced the previously leaked E-520, an update to its well-regarded E-510. Like the entry-level E-420, the E-510 is really a minor update to its predecessor. Not surprisingly, updates include most of the new features the E-420 added over the E-410, such as a bigger and better...; Tags: Olympus Corp., Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Janice Chen; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Is it RIP for my aged Apple laptop?: OK. I may just have found a very relevant reason to go out and buy a new computer: I think I have officially killed my four-year-old Apple notebook. And, yes, I will lose data if I can't recover the hard drive. And, yes, I am traveling as this discovery is...; Tags: Thin Client, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, IGEL, Thin Clients, Hardware, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Electrical outages make you appreciate mobile technology: I awoke this morning to the crackle and thunderous crash of a 100-year-old oak tree snapping and falling in my next-door neighbor's yard (iPhone picture above). We're lucky that no people or property were damaged, but the tree fell on a power line knocking out service for my...; Tags: Mobile, Apple MacBook, Battery, Outage, Engineering, Modems, Notebooks, RSS, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-12

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Riverbed Technology Inc.: Riverbed Technology is engaged in developing enhanced services to the fundamental problems of wide-area distributed computing. Co.'s Steelhead® appliances enable its customers to improve the...; Riverbed Technology Inc. company page on BNET »