All Research Sponsored By:Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Troubleshooting Your Network Without Breaking the Bank
WHITE PAPER: As a network manager, application manager or security manager, you need systems that can collect data across your WAN, continuously analyze the data to discover problems, and troubleshoot issues as soon as they occur. Riverbed Cascade has fundamentally changed the economics of network performance management. Learn more.
Posted: 23 Apr 2013 | Published: 30 Dec 2011


Mitigating the Risks of IT Change
WHITE PAPER: Riverbed® Cascade® is an application-aware network performance management solution with built-in application discovery and dependency mapping capabilities. Cascade quickly provides a complete and accurate inventory of the IT environment, including an understanding of how services and their underlying infrastructure impact the business.
Posted: 19 Apr 2013 | Published: 30 Dec 2011


Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Solution Brief
WHITE PAPER: Companies embrace SaaS products like Microsoft® Office 365, Google Apps, and Salesforce.com®, for their flexibility and potential savings. Learn how enterprises must tackle performance challenges for SaaS applications to remain a viable option.
Posted: 22 May 2012 | Published: 22 May 2012


10 Reasons to Deploy WAN Optimization for Disaster Recovery
WHITE PAPER: Data protection is simple: take everything and copy it somewhere far enough away so that you’ll have it in an emergency. The challenge is how to do this in an efficient and reliable way. Learn Riverbed optimizes DR across the widest range of backup mechanisms, with no changes to your software or storage
Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012


Case Study - Petrobas
CASE STUDY: Petrobras needed to accelerate data replication from offshore drilling platforms back to the corporate headquarters. Download the case study to learn how Riverbed deployed Steelhead® appliances to reduce Petrobras’ backup window from 34 hours to four hours, improve application performance for remote workers to LAN-like speeds, and more.
Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012


Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager VA Performance on vSphere 4
WHITE PAPER: Cloud infrastructure platforms like VMware vSphere 4.0 can benefit from load balancers that connect users to the most suitable datacenter. This white paper outlines how the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (VA) improves traffic performance compared to a Linux install.
Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012


Stingray Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance Performance on vSphere 4
WHITE PAPER: Cloud infrastructure platforms like VMware vSphere 4.0 can significantly benefit from load balancers that connect users to the most suitable data center. This white paper outlines how the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (VA) improves traffic performance figures compared to a Linux install.
Posted: 07 Nov 2011 | Published: 07 Nov 2011


Optimization is for the Clouds
WHITE PAPER: This paper begins with an outline of the characteristics of computing from a distance, describes how WAN optimization of cloud resources improves the user experience, explains how Riverbed’s Cloud Steelhead achieves this, and concludes with several deployment examples.
Posted: 06 Sep 2011 | Published: 06 Sep 2011


How to Address the Two Key Challenges with Virtualization
WHITE PAPER: WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises. Examine the trends toward server consolidation and virtualization, and how WAN optimization can help IT organizations like yours solve the key challenges of application performance and information availability within these environments.
Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011


Essential Guide: Getting started with disaster recovery planning
EBOOK: Whether you're new to IT disaster recovery planning or want to brush up on best practices, we have the answers for you in this essential DR planning guide.
Posted: 29 Apr 2011 | Published: 29 Apr 2011


Ebook: Migrating Internal Apps to the Cloud
EBOOK: Follow this step by step guide from concept to implementation to ensure your move to the cloud is efficient and leads your organization to success.
Posted: 27 Apr 2011 | Published: 25 Apr 2011


10 Reasons to Deploy WAN Optimization for Disaster Recovery (DR)
DATA SHEET: Deploying WAN optimization solutions from Riverbed can help you protect more, recover faster, reduce risk and save money. Read this paper to learn about 10 reasons to deploy WAN optimization for disaster recovery.
Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011


Taneja - Riverbed and EMC Deliver Capacity-Optimized Cloud Storage for Backup, Recovery, Archiving and DR
ANALYST REPORT: This paper by Taneja Group explores the factors that are driving the move to cloud storage and then introduces a solution from Riverbed and EMC that enables organizations to perform cloud backup and replication at LAN-like performance that is as reliable and secure as local disk or tape at a lower cost.
Posted: 11 Feb 2011 | Published: 02 Nov 2009


Riverbed® Services Platform
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Consolidation and virtualization are hot trends in IT, helping organizations increase their flexibility in delivering valuable services and reduce costs. The Riverbed® Services Platform provides customers with the ability to run up to 5 additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance.
Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 24 Apr 2009


Network disaster recovery and business continuity technology tutorial
EBOOK: Server virtualization is a popular topic in business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR). Here's a quick look at some common myths and the realities that are constantly changing in the server virtualization landscape.
Posted: 13 Jan 2010 | Published: 13 Jan 2010


WAN Clustering FAQ
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Please review this presentation transcript featuring Andrew Burton, Editor of SearchDisasterRecovery.com, and Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with the Taneja Group. The transcript documents their discussion about WAN clustering. Find out exactly what you need to set up a WAN cluster and what vendors offer WAN clustering support.
Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009


WAN Acceleration and Optimization FAQ
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Learn more about WAN acceleration and optimization by reading this interview conducted by Chris Griffin, Assistant Editor for SearchDisasterRecovery.com. Here he asks Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with the Taneja Group, the questions your organization needs to know in order to increase the performance of its WAN.
Posted: 04 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 2009


WAN Acceleration and Optimization: Frequently Asked Questions
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this podcast, Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with the Taneja Group, outlines the significance of WAN optimization in the disaster recovery (DR) space.
Posted: 16 Apr 2009 | Published: 16 Apr 2009


Riverbed Steelhead Product Family Data Sheet
DATA SHEET: What's the Riverbed difference? Speed. Scalability. And simplicity. Discover it for yourself and get the facts about the entire family of Steelhead solutions from Riverbed. Companies of all sizes depend on the Riverbed Steelhead product family to accelerate the performance of applications over the WAN.
Posted: 31 Mar 2009 | Published: 31 Mar 2009


Presentation Transcript: WAN Acceleration and Optimization FAQ
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this paper Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with the Taneja Group, outlines the significance of WAN optimization in the disaster recovery (DR).
Posted: 11 Feb 2009 | Published: 11 Feb 2009


Accelerating the Next Phase of Virtualization
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, see how wide-area data services (WDS) is now having tremendous success in enabling server virtualization and remote site consolidation.
Posted: 31 Oct 2008 | Published: 31 Oct 2008