Accelerating Applications for the Global Workforce
Steelhead appliances and Steelhead Mobile deliver the highest performing and most scalable WDS solution available, overcoming both bandwidth and latency problems to deliver LAN-like performance to branch offices or mobile workers across the globe.
Riverbed Steelhead products accelerate application performance and data transfer over the wide area network (WAN), overcoming bandwidth and geographical limitations to improve productivity and enable global collaboration. With Riverbed, file transfers that once took hours or minutes, now take minutes or seconds.
Riverbed’s products have been proven in some of the most demanding and complex networks in the world, with thousands of customers deploying Steelhead WDS solutions.
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Unlike point products that improve one part of the WAN performance problem - like WAFS, WAN optimisation, web application acceleration - WDS is the only comprehensive solution to remote office IT problems.
Steelhead appliances and Steelhead Mobile deliver the application acceleration and scalability across the WAN.
Wide Area Data Services (WADS) overcome both bandwidth and latency issues to deliver LAN-like performance to branch offices or mobile workers across the globe.
Key Benefits
Acceleration of key enterprise applications
Riverbed Steelhead products accelerate the broad set of applications important to business. Riverbed application modules, combined with the company’s data streamlining and transport streamlining, deliver dramatic performance increases across the WAN for all TCP applications, by up to 100 times.
IT infrastructure consolidation
Consolidate file, email and application servers, and storage from remote branches to cut costs and operational complexity without sacrificing performance.
Reduced bandwidth utilisation
Companies that have deployed Riverbed’s Steelhead products typically reduce bandwidth utilisation by 60% to 95%, often allowing them to defer costly bandwidth upgrades.
Enhanced data protection
Organisations can eliminate remote backup infrastructure and remediate the risk of data disclosure through lost tapes or media. By speeding data transfer, Riverbed enables secure backup and replication over the WAN, often reducing replication times from hours to minutes.
Secure application acceleration
Riverbed is the only company that can optimise SSL traffic without compromising the end-to-end trust model. Companies subject to compliance regulations such as SOX, HIPAA, PCI or other security requirements can deliver both performance and security for their applications.
Enable the mobile workforce
Mobile workers often receive sub-optimal application performance when they connect to resources from remote locations. With Steelhead Mobile, IT can deliver local performance to remote workers wherever they connect. |
