Want to understand how other companies are turning their Riverbed investments into cost-saving machines? Download this case study bundle and uncover the money-saving secrets of wide-area data services (WDS) from Riverbed. These four enlightening case studies about very different organizations show how enterprises can slash network and IT costs while simultaneously improving application performance and business processes.
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Amassing huge savings with Riverbed WDS solutions Want to learn more?Particularly in difficult economic times, organizations of all sizes strive to streamline Attached are 4 enlightening case costs while leveraging productivity gains. Many companies will evaluate various cost- studies about very different orga-cutting initiatives in order to weather the storm. However, enterprises need to be careful to pursue cost cutting measures that won't negatively impact business opera- nizations that have used WDS to tions or hinder growth in the long term. The paradox facing CIOs and IT managers is achieve Extreme Savings. These how to control or reduce costs while still providing strategic value for the business. case studies will show you how to With wide-area data services (WDS), leading companies can slash network and IT costs do the same thing to your envi-while simultaneously improving application performance and business processes. By ronment. Your executives will be accelerating applications up to 100x, organizations can easily consolidate their IT impressed when you make the infrastructure and minimize bandwidth utilization saving thousands or even millions impossible, possible. Let Riverbed of dollars annually. WDS can also enable accelerated disaster recovery operations to minimize the impact and cost of downtime while also saving money on idle DR band- show you how. Think Fast.width links. Thousands of companies have already achieved the following results:
. Site and Server Consolidation - With WDS, companies can consolidate entire data centers or servers from branch offices without compromising application performance. The LAN-like performance enabled by Riverbed Steelhead products eliminates the trade-off between consolidation and speed. Consolidation becomes a reality - without impacting the productivity of your branch users. Save money on bandwidth - By delivering massive capacity throughput increases, Riverbed customers can use a T1 circuit as if it were 20 meg pipe. This allows com-panies to defer bandwidth upgrades for years saving big dollars on network costs.. Eliminate backup infrastructure and tapes - Organizations can leverage WDS to backup data over the WAN and eliminate tapes and backup infrastructure in branch offices. This is a hard cost savings and an administrative blessing by no longer having the office manager mix up the incremental and full backup tapes.. Save money on DR - Most industry analysts estimate that network costs consume approximately 30% of overall DR expenses. By reducing bandwidth usage, IT can outfit DR sites with smaller links for data replication to save on recurring costs.Case Study: Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, Ltd.
In BRIEF 3TB File Server Consolidation Project Completed With the River-Žbed Steelhead ApplianceIndustry? Manufacturing (Automotive) Realizing a cost savings of over 12,000,000 yen per year through WAN optimiza-tion, with improved data security and improved availabilityMajor Issues Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, Ltd. ( "Mitsubishi Motors") was aiming to further increase its ? Reducing the cost of operations competitive strength by consolidating its information systems at key locations within Japan. ? Improving data security As part of this effort, in 2005 they consoli-The issue was company-wide con- dated a total of 50 Windows NT-based file ? Making the level of service more servers (5000 users) at three locations whose uniform solidation, including TCO reduction, hardware maintenance contracts had expired, unification of management funda- replacing them with a single EMC Celerra NS Solution series. By introducing the Riverbed Steelhead ? Riverbed Steelhead Appliance mentals and service levels. appliance, they were able to provide end users with performance comparable to that Results Obtained of LAN access and reduce WAN traffic by over 90%. They also strengthened data security, cen-? TCO savings of 1,000,000 yen per tralized management, enabled a large reduction in TCO, and improved availability.month Issue: Consolidation of Windows NT-Based File Servers Distributed At Three ? Access performance comparable to that of a LAN, through a 90% reduction in Locations Into One Location Without Loss of PerformanceWAN traffic At Mitsubishi Motor's main locations within Japan, namely, the Mizushima factory, the Power ? Improved data security through cen- Train factory, the passenger car engineerin... [download for more]
