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Accelerate Application Performance to Enable IT Consolidation

Many organizations are consolidating, or centralizing, IT today. IT consolidation provides many benefits, including simpler, easier to manage applications and infrastructure. But accelerating application performance is key to a successful IT centralization project.

Application performance optimization is an important component of consolidation because users are required to perform many more transactions over the wide area network than before. In a consolidated environment, data requests such as those for files or emails that were previously served by local infrastructure must now take place over the WAN. Without a wide-area data services solution in place to accelerate applications, these requests could result in congested networks, poor application performance, and frustrated users.

IT Consolidation Benefits and Challenges

Benefits	Challenges
Cost savings of reduced IT infrastructure	Performance limitations of applications over the WAN
Simplified management process	Limited WAN bandwidth
Easier data backup	One-time costs associated with consolidation
More secure data and infrastructure

Whether an organization is focused on consolidating file servers, email servers, SAN or NAS devices, or remote tape backup libraries, wide-area data services solutions will accelerate application performance typically by five to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times over the WAN, and reduce WAN bandwidth utilization typically by 60 to 95%. These application performance improvements ensure that remote users can successfully access consolidated data and applications, while the resulting WAN bandwidth optimization ensures IT managers that they can minimize or altogether delay additional bandwidth investments. Users will feel as if they getting the performance of local infrastructure, while the organizations get the benefits of IT infrastructure that is consolidated, such as lower costs, more security, and eased regulatory compliance.

Learn more about how IT consolidation improves WAN performance:

• File server consolidation
  Consolidating file servers reduces complexity, increases efficiency, and reduces risk.
• Email consolidation
  Consolidating Exchange servers simplifies management and upgrades of Exchange.
• Consolidating NAS
  Reduces the risk and improves the securityof distributed data storage.
• Centralizing remote backup.
  Improves security and reliability while reducing the costs on WAN-based backup.

Using Riverbed, organizations can consolidate all types of servers from a branch office with one simple plug and play appliance. They can greatly reduce the cost and complexity of remote office infrastructure while guaranteeing the performance that end users need.