IBM and Riverbed Technology
Assess the untapped potential of your IT to help optimise application,
storage and network performance.
ith IT demand up but supply — both
budget and headcount — down, reducing
costs while increasing the business value
of IT is critical. While server consolidation
and virtualisation can help address these
issues, many organisations cannot fully consolidate into a
centralised data centre. Among other challenges,
performance issues can be a significant obstacle.
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IBM and Riverbed Technology can
provide innovative consolidation and
virtualisation techniques to help your
systems and employees work better
and faster.
Consider the benefits of working with IBM and Riverbed
Technology to help streamline and consolidate your branch
infrastructure. We can provide an industry-leading solution
that consolidates servers and data in your data centres for
centralised management and protection — while delivering
local-speed access for centralised data to remote users.
Working with IBM and Riverbed Technology, you can build
on your existing investments and adopt new technologies to
gain more cost-effective, ready-to-run computing power and
capacity, matched to your business needs.
Depending on your needs, your engagement can provide:
1. A comprehensive assessment of your IT infrastructure, including existing storage hardware and Steelhead
appliances, to address your consolidation demands for:
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Capacity
Availability
Data access
Agility
2. A detailed analysis that documents the cost and performance benefits of bringing branch storage back into your
data centre.
3. A Riverbed Steel Fusion implementation roadmap,
which delivers a vendor-independent architectural solution
that consolidates remote office servers and storage to the
data centre (the core) while projecting applications and data
to remote (edge) locations, where they operate as if they
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were local. This can provide users at edge locations with
uncompromised performance.
4. IBM management of your Riverbed Steel Fusion environment, including backup, provision, patch and protect data
on enterprise storage within the four walls of the
data centre.
Consolidate and simplify with the IBM
Storwize family and Riverbed
SteelFusion
IBM and Riverbed Technology help
organisations:
* Streamline branch IT, simplify management, and
reduce operational and administrative costs
* More quickly provision servers to support enterprise-wide virtualisation initiatives
* Simplify and accelerate branch office disaster recovery by more quickly re-provisioning and
relocating services
* Better protect and secure servers and data in the
data centre using the same tools and methods applied
to all corporate data
* Eliminate the need to purchase, install and manage
a backup solution at the branch-office level
* Enhance local access and performance,
boosting productivity
Why IBM and Riverbed Technology?
IBM and Riverbed Technology offer combined, market-leading IT optimisation solutions. Our alliance, which began
in 2009, provides a combined solution that can deliver
high-value, network-related services that draw on the
knowledge and expertise of both companies:
* Riverbed Technology provides cross-industry, leading IT performance, recognised in multiple categories
by Gartner Magic Quadrant
* IBM is a global leader in providing technology
services, with deep experience in application performance and tuning of complex networks for application
usage, and broad experience with enterprise
applications