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Mobile work continues to evolve. Your organization must keep up with the demands of its mobile workforce. This report introduces the concept of mobile WAN optimization and provides three case studies including RCM, PRTM and Einstein that highlight how this emerging technology can help IT departments achieve what previously appeared to be conflicting goals. (more…)...

Delivering on the promise of easier administration, anywhere access and lower total cost of ownership, VMware Zimbra® is the leading email and collaboration solution with over 70 million paid mailboxes worldwide. When combined with VMware vSphere, Zimbra can help businesses achieve significant cost and operational efficiencies – 4x to 5x better performance than Exchange. Featuring a live demo and real-life examples of interoperability wit...

Telefónica is one of the world’s leading integrated operators in the telecommunication sector, providing communication, information and entertainment solutions, with a presence in Europe, Latin America and Asia. The company’s growth strategy is focused on the territories in which it has a strong foothold: Spain, Europe and Latin America. To galvanize its marketplace position and provide small and medium enterprises with IT infrastruct...

Wide area network (WAN)-based approaches to data backup are dramatically influenced by WAN bandwidth limitations and network latency. Without significant, costly WAN bandwidth upgrades this can make WAN-based backup impossible for large remote offices with significant data stores. Riverbed makes network-based backup feasible, in many cases through use of existing WAN links, without the need for bandwidth upgrades. Our intelligent, storage-specific opt...

Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance?  This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size.  Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster.   ...

Want to free yourself from the spiraling cost and complexity of your current IT infrastructure? Riverbed can help by giving you three key strategies for delivering cloud services with LAN-like performance to end users and IT managers alike. 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.   ...

Bringing Data Center Class Virtualization Ready Blade Servers to the Branch Office What Are Cisco UCS E-Series Servers? Cisco UCS® E-Series Servers bring data center–class virtualization-ready blade servers to the branch office. Cisco UCS E-Series Servers are virtualization-ready, high-density, single-socket blade servers designed to balance simplicity, performance, and application density while operating in a energy-efficient environment. ...

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.   ...

Has your Enterprise made the strategic decision to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers? Then you have probably discovered that consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. Download this paper by Riverbed and discover a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is successful.   ...

Increasingly enterprises are adopting cloud services, with more than 50 percent of all workloads being processed in the cloud by 2014 according to the 2011 Cisco® Global Cloud Index. However, cloud services place new demands and requirements on the enterprise network, especially the enterprise WAN in delivering these services to remote and branch-office users. In order to meet these new requirements, Cisco introduces “cloud connectors” ...