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Riverbed SteelHead

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What is Riverbed SteelHead?

San Francisco based Riverbed Technology offers Steelhead, a WAN optimization solution, which includes the SteelHead CX/GX delivering optimization for Hybrid WANs, accelerating the performance of applications to improve productivity and reduce costs, and SteelHead SD combining SD-WAN and WAN Optimization,…

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Riverbed Steelhead has proven to be an essential tool for enabling remote work conditions. Users have reported a significant reduction in …
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What is Riverbed SteelHead?

San Francisco based Riverbed Technology offers Steelhead, a WAN optimization solution, which includes the SteelHead CX/GX delivering optimization for Hybrid WANs, accelerating the performance of applications to improve productivity and reduce costs, and SteelHead SD combining SD-WAN and WAN…

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Product Demos

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Riverbed Steelhead Demo

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Riverbed steelhead basic configuration with demo.

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Riverbed Steelhead has proven to be an essential tool for enabling remote work conditions. Users have reported a significant reduction in file opening time, going from an excruciating 20 minutes to a mere 1.5 minutes. This improvement has made large files workable and has greatly enhanced productivity for remote workers. Additionally, Riverbed Steelhead is widely used for global application acceleration and as a managed service, providing customers with improved operational efficiency. By optimizing traffic and reducing latency, this product ensures that users can access applications and data quickly, regardless of their location.

Another key use case for Riverbed Steelhead is the optimization of WAN connections between different sites. Organizations that have implemented this product have experienced a remarkable improvement in throughput, allowing for the transmission of compressed and optimized data between production and disaster recovery sites. Moreover, the Steelhead mobile controller plays a vital role in enhancing the end-user experience over VPN connections. By optimizing traffic between the production site and remote users, it ensures that performance is maintained, even when working remotely.

Many organizations also rely on Riverbed Steelhead to optimize traffic and limit bandwidth usage for their remote offices, providing near-local performance for tasks such as file opening and mailbox syncing. This not only improves productivity but also reduces the reliance on expensive MPLS bandwidth. Customers who opt for the Managed WAN Acceleration Service based on Riverbed benefit from having their hardware consistently up and running, ensuring smooth operations without the hassle of maintaining the infrastructure themselves.

Lastly, Riverbed Steelhead offers valuable traffic flow analysis capabilities. This feature allows organizations to gain insights into their network traffic patterns, identify bottlenecks or congested areas, and make informed decisions about network optimization strategies.

Overall, Riverbed Steelhead has demonstrated its value across different use cases by improving file opening times, enhancing operational efficiency, optimizing WAN connections, providing a seamless remote work experience, limiting bandwidth usage, and enabling effective traffic analysis. Its versatility and reliability have made it a go-to solution for organizations looking to maximize their network performance.

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Score 10 out of 10
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Riverbed Steelhead is very stable and integrates into applications easily, especially Microsoft and Azure or AWS.
If there is a new Windows version available, the Riverbed version is not far away. The remote locations can work like they are located near the data center. For this reason, you can reduce your global data centers to a minimum. Some customers have just one!
Score 9 out of 10
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Riverbed Steelhead significantly helps with bandwidth optimization for Microsoft file sharing and Microsoft Exchange. If these services are centralized, Riverbed Steelhead makes sense. Less suitable areas where I might not implement Riverbed Steelhead would include SAP and Web based optimization/bandwidth reduction.
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