You Are Browsing ‘Cloud ’ Category

This online eBook provides insight and advice on how to build an effective disaster recovery strategy in the evolving world of virtual infrastructures, while mitigating the impact of so-called 'Black Swan' events in the datacenter. Practical, how-to best practices, real customer success testimonials and links to additional resources.           ...

IT departments need a solution that meets the evolving needs of both the employees and IT— something not possible with a traditional PC model. This paper illustrates the benefits of moving beyond the physical PC to a modern desktop that is highly flexible, easy to manage, customizable to suit users’ needs, and ready for new and future technology.             ...

In 2011, business priorities and expectations focus on customer obsession. In the age of the customer, only the customer-obsessed will survive. That’s why your business is prioritizing revenue and customer growth over cost-cutting in 2011. But is your IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) organization ready to participate? On one hand, business decision-makers already value technology’s ability to support and serve customers much mo...

Small and midsize firms virtualize IT infrastructure to meet real-world challenges: simplifying operations to focus on business issues, speeding up application rollouts to get more done, safeguarding data and operations to stay open and productive, and saving money for the bottom line.  It’s a new way to think about IT—and getting started is easy, fast, and inexpensive, using VMware solutions designed for your real-world small or mids...

This ground-breaking paper will give the reader a glimpse of a technology-driven future state of real time collaboration and connectivity between human and machine, where fictionless interaction and scalability shall deliver a re-engineering of how we live, work and play.               ...

With the advent of private cloud deployments, the pendulum has swung from a distributed model that propagated in the 90s to centralized computing. In this short video, Bob Gilbert, Riverbed’s tech evangelist, explains the reasons for the shift and how best to consolidate successfully. While consolidation sounds easy, the further users are away from the services they use, the poorer the performance will be. Watch this video now to learn about th...

Rayonier, a leading international forest products company, chose Riverbed Technology for a global WAN optimization solution in order to make its private cloud a reality. With Riverbed, Rayonier was able to consolidate and virtualize eight data centers down to two, without diminishing end-user performance or adding bandwidth. The success of this project enabled Rayonier to payback its Riverbed investment in less than one year. Payback on the RiverbedÂ...

Consolidating IT infrastructures is a continuing trend, particularly in an uncertain economy with organizations looking to reduce operation costs. While many have achieved some level of consolidation, analyst firm Forrester Consulting found that only 13% considered themselves consolidated to the data center, and only 8% fully consolidated within branch offices. Broader consolidation requires overcoming complexity, distance, latency, and organizational...

In this video, Joe Ghory, a senior product marketing manager at Riverbed Technology, explains the drivers behind virtual desktop environments, as well as the advantages and challenges that you need to know. Watch now to learn how you use WAN optimization to address network bandwidth requirements and applications response times so that your end users get the same performance with virtualized desktops as they do with thick clients.     &nbs...

Organizations of all shapes and sizes are looking to private cloud implementations to increase IT efficiency and help end users collaborate more easily. But they’re finding out that the advantages can only be achieved when they ensure their wide area networks (WANs) can offer speedy access to centralized IT resources for faraway users. This CIO article discusses how WAN optimization solutions, like those Riverbed Technology offers, can acceler...