Case Study: Extreme Savings with Riverbed

Particularly in difficult economic times, organizations of all sizes strive to streamline costs while leveraging productivity gains. Many companies will evaluate various cost-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 operations or hinder growth in the long term. The paradox facing CIOs and IT managers is how to control or reduce costs while still providing strategic value for the business.
With wide-area data services (WDS), leading companies can slash network and IT costs while simultaneously improving application performance and business processes. By accelerating applications up to 100x, organizations can easily consolidate their IT infrastructure and minimize bandwidth utilization saving thousands or even millions 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 bandwidth 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 companies 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.