Case Studies - Real Customers, Real Results

Real Customers, Real Results!
Using Wide-area Data Services (WDS) to Accelerate, Optimize, Want to learn more?and Simplify Distributed Computing Attached are 4 enlightening case In business today, even the smallest companies often have 2 or 3 offices. Sometimes studies about very different or-they are in the same city or the same state, but they might be across the world. Larger companies might have 10, 500, or 5,000 branch offices to manage and monitor. ganizations that have used WDS to optimize their applications and With business constantly reaching out to new locations, how do you enable your dis- infrastructure in different ways. tributed employees to communicate, collaborate, and report back on what's going on? Of course, that's what your applications and your network infrastructure are for These case studies will show you - but are they really meeting your performance needs? how to do the same thing to your If your organization is like most, everyone says that IT infrastructure is either too environment. Your executives will slow or costs too much to manage. Employees expect better response time, and be impressed when you make the executives are pressuring the IT team to cut costs at the same time by consolidating impossible, possible. Let Riverbed servers or reducing bandwidth costs. This seems like a no-win situation, doesn't it? show you how.Well, it doesn't have to be. Companies of all sizes - from all over the world - have been using Riverbed WDS solutions to dramatically accelerate the performance of applications across their wide-area networks. With this solution in place, applica-tions can go up to 100x faster. That type of performance enables your organization to work as if everyone were in the same room. Take a look at these common results:. Any application - including email, Web apps, large design files - can be shared across the world in seconds instead of minutes or hours. Consolidation becomes a reality - without impacting the productivity of your branch users. Backup and replication can be completed in 1/10th of the previous time required - ensuring your business can respond quickly and more reliably in the face of disaster.. Bandwidth upgrades are pushed out - optimization of current bandwidth lets you push out upgrades, potentially for years.Case Study: Liz Claiborne
®Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Deployed by a Global Retailer to Improve Employee Productivity, Centralize Applications, and Ease WAN-based Backup In BRIEF Liz Claiborne Inc. designs and markets an extensive range of branded women's and men's apparel, accessories and fragrance products. The company has a diverse portfolio of quality Industry brands that are available domestically and internationally via wholesale and retail channels. ? Retail (Consumer Goods) Popular globally-known brands in the Liz Claiborne portfolio include DKNY, Kenneth Cole NY, Kate Spade, Mexx, and Monet. The more than 40 brands in the Liz Claiborne Inc. portfolio are Challenges available at over 30,000 points of sale worldwide.? Accelerate application performance for Liz Claiborne (www.lizclaiborneinc.com) has locations across the globe, including distribution a globally distributed workforce centers, and management, sales, finance, and operations offices. Sites are located in North ? Ease the transition to centrally- America, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, India, China and Southeast Asia. The deployed applications business is expanding in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia due to both acquisition and natu-? Make WAN-based backup more effec- ral growth. To accommodate that growth and integrate worldwide business operations, the tive company sought to deploy both custom applications designed for the global retail business and improve response times of existing applications such as their ERP application, and Microsoft Solution Office, Exchange 2003, CommVault backup and SharePoint, over the wide area network (WAN).? 37 Steelhead appliances deployed Challenge: Enabling Employees To Be Productive, Wherever They Are across North America and Asia Liz Claiborne is in a period of immense change. As recently noted to the financial community ? 60+ installations planned across Europe in its earnings announcements, Claiborne is "committed to strategic acquisitions as part of our and South Asia growth strategy." Yet, an aggressive growth strategy presents challenges for maintaining a high level of worker productivity.Benefits? 20x to... [download for more]