Cloud Computing

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.

Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager makes it easy to migrate and scale data on demand, and is the only delivery solution available as a deployable VA.

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.

When AlertBoot switched to the cloud it needed a load balancing solution that would support its migration and prevent as much downtime as possible. The company chose Riverbed® Stingray Traffic Manager to use while transitioning its infrastructure to an entirely virtualized environment. The move was a complete success, at one-third the cost of comparable hardware solutions.

Wilden was able to deduplicate data 12X before transporting it over the WAN for public cloud storage and DR. Watch the video to learn more.

This paper provides practical advice for maintaining a functional DR strategy, and for streamlining business continuity solutions.

This white paper details how organizations can leverage cloud-based storage offerings as part of their data protection plans.

In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can break the cloud performance barrier and deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.

In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.

Read this technology brief to learn how addressing network limitations can make the difference between success and failure of a cloud-based system.

This paper seeks to clarify the definition of cloud computing, identify how far along users are in terms of cloud deployment, and examine the role of the network in the cloud computing model.

This solution brief addresses those limitations, and looks at how Riverbed Technology helps you overcome them.

Want to eliminate spiraling cost and complexity of your IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance across your organization. In this whitepaper, we explore how WAN optimization from Riverbed can deliver on the promise of accelerated cloud performance for widely distributed enterprises.

When it comes to cloud computing, WAN optimization isn't an option; it's a necessity. Read this technology brief to learn how addressing network limitations can make the difference between success and failure of a cloud-based system.

This paper seeks to clarify the definition of cloud computing, identify how far along users are in terms of cloud deployment, and examine the role of the network in the cloud computing model.

This technology brief investigates the processes and tools that are needed to provide complete enterprise visibility and WAN acceleration for high-priority traffic.

WAN optimization plays an important role in today's highly distributed datacenters and cloud computing architectures. Massive consolidation and data mobility, enabled by virtualization, have radically altered how we build servers, design applications, and deploy storage for the emerging "cloud" decade. This paper discusses how Riverbed solutions effectively eliminate IT performance constraints in such environments.

Your legacy load balancer may be keeping a dirty hidden secret from you. Download this concise white paper now and learn the five ways your legacy load balancer is failing you. Plus, find out how application delivery controllers (ADCs) can now leverage deep application intelligence to do much more for your business than a load balancer ever could.

This Forrester white paper examines the trends driving the new wave of dynamic web content in enterprises. Download now to find out why it is important to consider updating content management practices and optimization to speed up content delivery.

With the pool of available IPv4 addresses all but dried up, the transition to IPv6 is gaining steam, but will pose significant challenges. Download this resource for planning a IPv6 migration, and learn about steps IT organizations can take to begin the transition.

Cloud balancing is the process of routing transactions and network requests across applications in multiple clouds. Think of it as the, "don't put your eggs in one basket" approach, but in this case don't put all your applications in one cloud.