Web Service Management

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Triboo specializes in managing e-commerce activities and performance marketing for many Italian companies. The company's website was struggling to support over 2 million page views and 45 million hits each day, so they turned to Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager. Now Triboo enjoys high website availability and scalability, and its customers enjoy an outstanding online experience.

Global travel specialist STA Travel found that access to its website had slowed and that peaks in web traffic from promotional campaigns had become difficult to manage. The company turned to the Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager for support. This cost-effective solution deployed quickly, improved the website's performance and uptime, and provided a superior online experience for its customers.

Socialbomb builds applications that integrate with its clients' social platforms to create innovative, well-maintained, successful online campaigns. Unfortunately, many of its online applications were faltering at peak traffic times, which made managing campaigns difficult. The company chose Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager to ensure that its advanced social network projects remained online, and that they provided detailed reporting during traffic spikes.

Online job search site SnagAJob.com needed a quick and reliable online presence. After assessing its web optimization strategy, the company traded its hardware traffic management solution for a virtualized environment that could match anticipated growth. With Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager supporting its new virtual environment, the company is now well on its way to meeting its goal of 99.9 percent uptime.

With 85 percent of its ticket sales made online, See Tickets needed a robust, secure, highly accessible website. The company chose the Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager to ensure that its site was always online and fast, even during extreme peaks in traffic. Now the company's valued customers receive optimal online service.

Online airline and travel group Meridiana fly needed a faster, more cost-effective way for its growing customer base to book reservations online. They turned to the Riverbed® StingrayT Traffic Manager, which ensured a fast, responsive website that could cope with increasing high-demand. The company's pages now load much faster, and downtime is a thing of the past.

With over 5,000 requests per second during peak periods, online retailer Gilt Groupe could lose a large percentage of its daily profits in just 10 minutes of downtime. After choosing the Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager as its load balancing solution, visits to the site have increased thanks to improved customer satisfaction. Real-time traffic views and tracking also make it easy to strategize and plan for the future.

Every two years, one of the biggest events in the UK fundraising calendar is Comic Relief's Red Nose Day. In 2009 the charity implemented the Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager to make sure its web and donation platforms could scale up to handle vast peaks of website traffic. Thanks in part to this solution, Comic Relief's 2009 fundraising event raised a phenomenal £54.7m.

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This white paper discusses the drivers for migrating to Exchange 2010 and why decision makers should consider adopting cloud-based MST/AM during the planning phase of the overall migration.

Aberdeen Group research finds that file transfer has transformed from a loose collection of low-level protocols to full-featured, enterprise-class solutions for secure, reliable managed file transfer. This report examines how organizations benefit from managed file transfer solutions, and recommends steps to success for all organizations.

Consumer-focused technologies that are deployed by employees can provide tremendous value to any business and can provide IT organizations with more functionality than they can afford or are willing to deploy. However, consumer technologies must be appropriately managed in order to satisfy corporate security, compliance and other requirements. This means integrating consumer technologies into the existing IT fabric in order to achieve the greatest possible synergies between consumer-focused and IT-deployed technologies.

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Learn the risks associated with using the POP and free email systems and how a hosted Microsoft Exchange solution can provide guaranteed availability and make email users in even the smallest businesses much more productive.

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