Last week I was in Las Vegas reporting at Interop ’09 for Riverbed, manufacturers of WAN optimization devices and technology. What I learned from Riverbed, their customers, and partners is solving the problem of quick access to data over a wide area network can have an amazing trickle down effect to the rest of your business. When you can speed up one process, like file transfer across disparate nodes, it affects so many more points of your business. WAN optimization provides so many benefits:
- Can be as fast or faster than a LAN: Traditionally, you need multiple data centers around the world so employees in remote locations can access data quickly. Instead, consolidate data centers and use WAN optimization. Riverbed had one customer case where an employee accessed data faster remotely from their satellite office in Indonesia than from the home office’s data center in Philadelphia.
- Save money on hardware and software: Reduce the number of print servers and file servers. Plus, since people can actually do work off the main data center, there’s no need to get tons more software licenses for additional servers.
- Project completion and management speeds up considerably. For those file intensive projects, like with game development (Activision is one of Riverbed’s clients), file transfers become the bottleneck to get anything done. Eliminate the file transfer bottleneck and then watch every step in the project speed up. Everything gets delivered a lot quicker, ultimately meaning they can deliver games to market faster.
Here’s a summary of all the coverage for three days. There’s a total of 40 articles, of which 30 include video.
Articles and videos from Interop
- Extending datacenter security to Riverbed Steelhead appliances
- The datacenter is more than the fabric that connects servers
- Networking challenges: ideas and opinions from Interop Unconference
- Mobile WAN optimization: It isn’t just about employees that travel
- Watch data run faster from the U.S. to Indonesia than in your data center
- The most common tech support question at Riverbed
- Accelerate consolidation of virtual machines with Riverbed
- WAN optimization can eliminate a huge part of your IT infrastructure
- Success is about three things: innovation, innovation, and innovation
- IT agility creates business agility
- Reinventing the Data Center
- Rayonier: Riverbed’s happiest customer?
- Finding the ROI at Interop
- A tour of the Interop network (NOC)
- Infoblox: Deploy network management services to all of your network from a central location
- WAN optimization slugfest
- Riverbed customer, Dudek, avoids unnecessary server deployment
- WAN optimization competitors agree on goals, not strategies
- Cascade: Know when there are problems and who’s the culprit
- OPNET: Know where network latency lies
- HP and Microsoft team up for improved communications and collaboration
- Interop 09 Las Vegas: Show Report, Day 2
- Compellent: Fast data replication over Riverbed devices
- Netscout: See which application is your traffic hog
- It’s an HP ProCurve. It’s a Riverbed Steelhead. No silly, it’s both
- Crescendo and Riverbed: Complete traffic optimization solution
- Riverbed and Check Point: WAN to LAN security
- Riverbed customer, Dudek, avoids unnecessary server deployment
Articles and videos from CIO Boot Camp
- CIO Boot Camp Highlights
- Activision launches games faster with Riverbed
- Becoming a CIO is all about managing relationships
- What’s your toughest IT challenge?
- Do ad agencies have the toughest IT challenge?
- Activision speeds up game development time with Riverbed WAN optimization
- Thornton May on creating brilliant leaders in information technology
- CIOs provide advice on how to scale up a successful operation
- Managing vendors-Now is the time to seize opportunities
- Fill in the gap between where you are and where you want to be
- In a disaster, number one priority is “Where are your people?”
- Want to be a CIO? Don’t be an order taker. Be a value creator.
- How to create innovation in your IT environment
- How to turn someone who is blocking your objectives into a center of excellence
