What do companies as diverse as Liz Claiborne, Mitsubishi Motors, Alstom Power, and Mindspeed Technologies have in common? They have all benefited from the deployment of WAN optimization solutions from Riverbed, spectacularly accelerating their network infrastructures. From opening remote files and applications up to 100x faster to dramatically reducing backup and replication time, Riverbed solved common but vexing infrastructure challenges facing these diverse companies. Review these four case studies and discover how WAN optimization can enable your distributed employees to communicate and collaborate as if they were all in the same room!
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Using WAN optimization to Accelerate, Optimize, and Simplify Distributed ComputingIn business today, even the smallest companies often have 2 or 3 offices. Sometimes 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. With business constantly reaching out to new locations, how do you enable your distributed 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 - but are they really meeting your performance needs?If your organization is like most, everyone says that IT infrastructure is either too slow or costs too much to manage. Employees expect better response time, and executives are pressuring the IT team to cut costs at the same time by consolidating servers or reducing bandwidth costs. This seems like a no-win situation, doesn't it?Well, it doesn't have to be. Companies of all sizes - from all over the world - have been using Riverbed WAN optimization solutions to dramatically accelerate the performance of applications across their wide-area networks. With this solution in place, applications 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.
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Attached are 4 enlightening case studies about very different organizations ®that have used Riverbed to optimize their applications and infrastructure in different ways. These case studies will show you how to do the same thing to your environment. Your executives will be impressed when you make the impossible, possible. Let Riverbed show you how.CASE STUDY: Liz Claiborne
Riverbed Steelhead Appliances Deployed by a Global Retailer to Improve Employee Productivity, Centralize Applications, and In BRIEF Ease WAN-based Backup Liz Claiborne Inc. designs and markets an extensive range of branded women's and men's apparel, Industry accessories and fragrance products. The company has a diverse portfolio of quality brands that »»Retail (Consumer Goods) are available domestically and internationally via wholesale and retail channels. Popular globally-known brands in the Liz Claiborne portfolio include DKNY, Kenneth Cole NY, Kate Spade, Mexx, Challenges and Monet. The more than 40 brands in the Liz Claiborne Inc. portfolio are available at over 30,000 »»Accelerate application performance for a points of sale worldwide.globally distributed workforce Liz Claiborne (www.lizclaiborneinc.com) has locations across the globe, including distribution »»Ease the transition to centrally-deployed centers, and management, sales, finance, and operations offices. Sites are located in North America, applications Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, India, China and Southeast Asia. The business is »»Make WAN-based backup more effective expanding in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia due to both acquisition and natural growth. To accommodate that growth and integrate worldwide business operations, the company sought Solution to deploy both custom applications designed for the global retail business and improve response ®»»37 Steelhead appliances deployed across times of existing applications such as their ERP application, and Microsoft Office, Exchange 2003, North America and Asia CommVault backup and SharePoint, over the wide area network (WAN).»»60+ installations planned across Europe and South Asia Challenge: Enabling Employees To Be Productive, Wherever They Are Liz Claiborne is in a period of immense change. As recently noted to the financial community in its Benefits earnings announcements, Claiborne is "committed to strategic acquisitions as part of our growth 20x to 40x application performance strategy." Yet, an aggressive growth strategy »»inc... [download for more]
